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Quaternary Research Association
Organisation comprising archaeologists, botanists, civil engineers, geographers, geologists, soil scientists, zoologists and others i
(http://qra.org.uk/)
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Alfred-Wegener-Institut fuer Polarforschung Bremerhaven - the central institute of German polar research.
(http://www.awi-potsdam.de/index.html)
The American Quaternary Association
Professional organization of North American scientists devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, about the last 2 million years of Earth history.
(http://pc53.chm.nau.edu/amqua/)
CDIAC - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Information about Global Warming and CO2-levels
(cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/home.html)
"Climate and Global Change"
related articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience.
(earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyonecl.html)
Climate and Radiation - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Lots of Information about General Climate.
(climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
Climate Change: A Geological Perspective - Carleton University, Canada
On-line syllabus and curriculum materials for a university science course on climate change (past, present, and future), its causes and effects.
(http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/climatechange/climatehome.html)
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency - Global Warming Site
A site dedicated to Global Warming
(http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/)
Glacier research group, VAW Glaciology section, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Glacier and Permafrost research in the Swiss Alps as well as on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Jakobshavn ice stream) and in Spitsbergen.
(http://www.vaw.ethz.ch/glaciology/home.html)
IIAS - Institute For Ice Age Studies
Ice Age Anthropology
(http://www.insticeagestudies.com/)
INQUA - International Union for Quaternary Research
Devoted to the Study of the Quaternary Period in Earth History
(inqua.nlh.no/)
INQUA Commission on Glaciation
The goal of the Commission on Glaciation is to explore and develop scientific cooperation for the study of past glaciation and present glacier processes.
(http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~davem/)
International Organisation of Paleobotany - Plant Fossil Record
"Descriptions and occurrences of many thousands of extinct plants"
(http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/palaeo/pfr2/pfr.htm)
International Permafrost Association
Focus on scientific investigation and engineering work on permafrost. On-line access to recent issues of the journal "Frozen Ground."
(http://www.geodata.soton.ac.uk:80/ipa/)
Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum
Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.
(http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/content.html)
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
"Paleoclimatology helps the World share scientific data and information related to climate system variability and predictability"
(http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html)
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education
(http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/)
Orbital Variations and Milankovitch Theory
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program educational material concerning the Milankovic theory or astronomical theory of climate change, which is an explanation for changes in the seasons which result from changes in the earth's orbit around the sun.
(http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo.html/milankovitch.html)
Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group
University of California Santa Cruz
(http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~lcsloan/index.html)
"Polar Pointers"
Links about Arctic and Antarctic.
(http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/polarpointers/PolarPointers.html)
Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lesson from the Geologic Record
100 miljon years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist.
(gcrio.ciesin.org/CONSEQUENCES/winter96/geoclimate.html)
Satellite Images: Glaciers
Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
(http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/facts/atlas/)
Scott Polar Research Institute - University of Cambridge
World Data Center - Directory of European Glaciology
(http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/wdcc/deg.htm)
Visualization of the Milankovitch Orbital Theory
Visualize the changes in solar insolation linked to the changes in Earth's orbital characteristics (eccentricity, obliquity, and precession).
(http://saguaro.la.asu.edu/rcerveny/visual.html)
WWW sites related to Quaternary Studies
Short links list from Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Aberystwyth, Wales
(http://www.aber.ac.uk/~ggd/quatsite.htm)
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