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	NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/ ODP description: 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. Page title: NOVA Online \| Warnings from the Ice
	NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html ODP description: 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. Page title: Data Access and Data Contribution - WDC for Paleoclimatology Page description: A central location for paleoclimatic data, research, and education.
	Pliocene and Late Quaternary Sea Level URL: http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/data/sea_level/ofr96000.html ODP description: Global Gridded maps. USGS Open File Report 96-000. Page title: USGS Open File Report 96-000
	Cambridge Quaternary URL: http://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/ ODP description: 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.
	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research URL: http://www.awi.de/en/institute/sites/potsdam/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Potsdam Page description: common page description
	Rutgers University Quaternary Studies URL: http://geology.rutgers.edu/qstudies.shtml ODP description: 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. Page title: Rutgers University Geological Sciences
	Climate Change Institute, University of Maine URL: http://climatechange.umaine.edu/ ODP description: Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas. Page title: Climate Change Institute - UMaine Page description: The home page of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine
	Quaternary Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison URL: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~qlab/ ODP description: In Department of Geology and Geophysics, UW-Madison. Studies of basic and applied problems in glacial geology, Quaternary geology, engineering geology,and hydrogeology.
	Quaternary Sciences Program at Northern Arizona University URL: http://www.nau.edu/~qsp/ ODP description: Information about education, research and data dissemination activities regarding the Quaternary period of the arid western North America. Offers a Master's degree. Page title: The Quaternary Sciences Program at Northern Arizona University Page description: QSP offers a Master of Science degree in the Quaternary Sciences. Students receive specialized interdisciplinary research and academic training in Earthâs present environmental conditions and biota as compared with the geologically recent past.
	Beringian Atlas URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/index.html ODP description: Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
	The Stage Three Project URL: http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/research/research_groups_and_projects/271 ODP description: 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. Page title: The Stage Three Project :: Home Page Page description: Understanding the constitution and behaviour of the Earth and the systems it supports.
	Cracking the Ice Age URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/ ODP description: Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources. Page title: NOVA Online/Cracking the Ice Age
	Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College URL: http://www.colby.edu/geology/Quaternary.html ODP description: Information about student research, with numerous links.
	Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa URL: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/geographie/lpcweb/ ODP description: 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. Page title: Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology Page description: place description here
	Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum URL: http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/ ODP description: Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants. Page title: Midwestern U.S. 16,000 Years Ago Page description: This web site describes the environment and fauna of the Midwestern United States at 16,000 years ago.
	The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin URL: http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm ODP description: Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved. Page description: OVER THE POLE: Surveying the Ice Ages from a Seat in Heaven 112 Flying from Copenhagen to Seattle, one sees the land of the two dozen ice ages. Changes in the Earth's orbit and tilt: Milankovitch's prisoner-of-war project. Cold spikes during warming periods: lessons from the Younger Dryas and similar cold snaps during the last ice age. Why Greenland wasn't named Iceland, and vice versa; the century-long changes in Atlantic clima...