Open Directory - Science: Earth Sciences: Quaternary Studies
See also: This category in other languages: - 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. - 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. - Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas. - 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. - Provides information about research groups, doctorol theses and the Swedish Quaternary Association. - 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. - 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. - Information about student research, with numerous links. - Information about education, research and data dissemination activities regarding the Quaternary period of the arid western North America. Offers a Master's degree. - In the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, paleoclimatology, glaciology and paleocoeanography. - 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. - Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources. (November 01, 1997) - Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved. (January 01, 1990)
