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

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

Cambridge Quaternary  www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk 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.

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

International Union for Quaternary Research  www.inqua.tcd.ie Founded in 1928 by a group of scientists seeking to improve understanding of environmental change during the glacial ages through interdisciplinary research. Includes information on projects, meetings and publications.

Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa  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.

Lund University: Quaternary Studies  www.geol.lu.se/kvg/eng Provides information about research groups, doctorol theses and the Swedish Quaternary Association.

Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum  www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center  www.ncdc.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  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.

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

Quaternary  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary Information from Wikipedia on the Quaternary Period, the geologic time period after the Neogene Period continuing from about 2.6 million years ago to the present.

Quaternary and Paleoclimate Research  www.geology.wisc.edu/~qlab In the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, paleoclimatology, glaciology and paleocoeanography.

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

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

Rutgers University Quaternary Studies  geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.shtml 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.

The Stage Three Project  www.esc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/research/research_groups_and_projects/271 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 members, and related information.

Cracking the Ice Age  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. (November, 1997)

The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin  www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved. (January, 1990)