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» Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research    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.    http://www.awi.de/en/institute/sites/potsdam/

» Beringian Atlas    Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/index.html

» Cambridge Quaternary    Collaborators from several departments engaged in study of paleogeography, Quaternary history and stratigraphy, geoarcheology, palynology, paleontology, and related topics. Describes research, personnel, facilities, and activities.    http://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/

» Climate Change Institute, University of Maine    Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas.    http://climatechange.umaine.edu/

» Cracking the Ice Age    Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/

» Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa    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.    http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geographie/lpcweb/

» NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center    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,    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html

» NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice    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.    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/

» Pliocene and Late Quaternary Sea Level    Global Gridded maps. USGS Open File Report 96-000.    http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/data/sea_level/ofr96000.html

» Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College    Information about student research, with numerous links.    http://www.colby.edu/geology/Quaternary.html

» Quaternary Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison    In Department of Geology and Geophysics, UW-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, Quaternary geology, engineering geology,and hydrogeology.    http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~qlab/

» Quaternary Sciences Program at Northern Arizona University    Information about education, research and data dissemination activities regarding the Quaternary period of the arid western North America. Offers a Master's degree.    http://www.nau.edu/~qsp/

» Rutgers University Quaternary Studies    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.    http://geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.shtml

» The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin    Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.    http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm

» The Stage Three Project    Interdisciplinary international collaborative effort to assess the current state of knowledge of the relatively mild part of the last glacial when Neanderthals became extinct. Information about objectives, newsletters, publications, directory of project m    http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/oistage3/Details/Homepage.html