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.

Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas.

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.

Links to the research groups and departments associated with the institute, along with an overview of its work.

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.

Offers information about Antarctica and tells 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.

Conducts research on topics such as paleoecology and cosmogenic isotopes, in Sweden and around the world. Includes course listings, news, publications, downloadable software, and links.

Information about student research, with numerous links.

In Department of Geology & Geophysics, UW-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, Quaternary geology, engineering geology,and hydrogeology.

Information about education, research and data dissemination activities regarding the Quaternary period of the arid western North America. Offers a Master's degree.

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.

Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.

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.