Quaternary Studies
Categories
- Age-Dating Techniques (11)
- Associations (5)
- Directories (1)
- Glaciology (10)
Links
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
http://www.awi-potsdam.de/index.html
Information about the central institute of German polar research, its history, its facilities and research ships, and research topics related to geology and biology of the polar regions and world oceans.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html
Archive for paleoclimate data, research, and education. Climate reconstructions and contributed data sets including: borehole data, climate forcing, corals, fauna, ice cores, insects, paleoclimate modeling, paleolimnology, paleoceanography, plant macrofossils, pollen, and tree ring.
NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/
Educational website to accompany TV program offers information about Antarctica and about how ice cores provide a record of the past. Discusses how the world's coastlines would recede if some or all of the Antarctic ice were to melt.
Beringian Atlas
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/index.html
Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geographie/lpcweb/
Information about research in the analysis and modeling of climate changes and their impacts on ecosystems, with particular focus on Canada and the Arctic during the Holocene.
Cracking the Ice Age
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/
Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.
The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin
http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm
Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.
Institute for Quaternary Studies, University of Maine
http://iceage.umeqs.maine.edu/
Studies of glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleoclimatology, paleooceanography, and paleoanthropology.
Rutgers University Quaternary Studies
http://geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.html
Offers a multidisciplinary graduate certificate program allowing students to specialize in the study of the last few million years in earth's history, incorporating anthropology, geology, geography, biology, meteorology, and environmental science.