Quaternary Studies

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    • 17 pages found in Quaternary Studies:

    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/

    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/

    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/

    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, paleolimnology, paleoceanography, plant macrofossils, pollen, and tree ring.
    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
    Information from Wikipedia on he Quaternary Period, the geologic time period after the Neogene Period roughly 2.588 million years ago to the present.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary

    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 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 members, and related information.
    http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/research/research_groups_and_projects/271

    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. <small>(November, 1997)</small>
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/

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

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