Earth Sciences: Quaternary Studies

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.

Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.

Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.

Announcement of field trip to Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks, October 3-5.

Studies of glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleoclimatology, paleooceanography, and paleoanthropology.

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.

Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.

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.

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.

Global Gridded maps. USGS Open File Report 96-000.