Glossaries	Glacier Dynamics	Paleoclimatology
General	Glacial Lakes	Organizations, Journals, etc.
Ice sheets, ice caps, ice shelves and continental glaciation		Academic Lecture sites
Alpine Glaciation	Pluvial Lakes	Miscellany

• Glossary of glacial terms (Rice University)
• Illustrated glossary of alpine landforms, 2002 Karen A. Lemke, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
• Glossary of Ice Age Terms, 2002, James Aber, Earth Science Department, Emporia State University, Kansas, U.S.A.

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General

• AltaVista Polar Studies Index
• Australian Antarctic Program
• British Antarctic Survey
• Byrd Polar Research Institute
•  ** Rice University's Glacier Site
• Canadian Landforms Courtesy of the Natural Resources Canada: Glacial Land Forms of Canada

  Using the following form to search their photo archives

  Description :

• INSTAR: Institute of Arctic Alpine Research, U. of CO, Boulder
  • ** Geobotanical Atlas of Toolik Lake and Kuparuk River Region, northern Alaska
• World Glaciers (USGS) Map
• Glacial Landforms on topographic maps: Assemble by Dr. Susan Clark Slaymaker, California State University, Sacramento Geology Department
  
• Goddard Institute for Space studies: Provides access to 1251 citations and abstracts of research publications authored or co-authored by GISS scientists and colleagues during the last three decades, with emphasis on papers published since 1990. Good source for papers relating to climate change.
• GLIMS--Global Land Ice Monitoring From Space
  
• * Polar Pointers Extensive list of site maintained by Ohio State related to Arctic and cold climate research
  
• **Nasa's Global Change Master Directory--search site
  • NASA's MODIS snow and sea ice mapping project
• ** National Snow and Ice Data Center
  • Educational Links
  • All About Glaciers: Introductory overview of glaciers
  • NSIDC/WDC-A Glacier Photo Collection and Index
• Nasa's Earth Observatory
  • Surveying Canadian Ice Caps for Impact of Climate Change
  • RAMPing Up : "Satellite images obtained in 1997 for the RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) culminated in the world's first high-resolution map of Antarctica and completed the terrestrial mapping of the globe."
• ** Nova online:
  • Cracking the ice age
  • Warnings from the ice
    • Stories in the ice Discover global change over the past 300,000 years from ice cores
• Scott Polar Research Institute
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• USGS CVO Glacier site
• ** USGS Eastern Earth Surface Process Team
  • Slide index Satellite images of the Earth's Glaciers and Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World, USGS Fact Sheet 133-99, Williams and Ferrigno.
  • USGS: Completed portions of the Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
    • Trevor J.H. Chinn 1, 2000, Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world, Glaciers of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, and New Zealand <http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386h/nzealand/nzealand.html >
    • Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world, South America, http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/title.html
      • Lliboutry, Glaciers of Chile and Argentina
    • U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-J, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World, North America,, Edited by Richard S. Williams, Jr., and Jane G. Ferrigno http://http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386j/
• Workshop on Remote Sensing of Planetary Ices on the Earth and other solid bodies
• World Glaciers Monitoring Service

• Landstat 7 glacier inventory
• Glaciers in Nasa's Geomorphology from Space

Antarctica

• ** Secrets of the Ice, an Antarctic Expedition
• ** Antarctica AVHRR Digital Mosaic map
• ** Antarctic Expedition: USA Today Cold Science
• Antarctic mass balance and sea level change , Bentley, C.R., 1993, Eos Vol. 74, pp. 585-6.
• Antarctica AVHRR Mosaic: USGS TerraWeb
• AVHRR images of the Antarctic ice shelves
• A Guided tour of Antarctica: Photo tour of the Ross Ice Shelf and surrounding regions (Dr. Ken Jezek, Dir. Byrd Polar, Research Center, Ohio State)
  Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
• Southpole images
  • Mariner Glacier, Borchgrevink Coast, Victoria Land
  • Crary Ice Rise, Ross Ice Shelf
  • Ingid Christensen Coast
  • RADARSAT Images the South Pole, Amundsen-Scott Station
  • Thwaites Glacier, Pine Island Bay

Canada

• Canadian Landscapes: Search for features
  • Bylot Island
  • Glaciers Index of glaciers and glacial features
• Glaciers in Canada
• ** Glaciology at the University of British Columbia
  • UBC Ice Sheet Modeling program
• Glacial History of Nova Scotia
• The Oak Ridge Moraine: "One of the most prominent features of Ontario."
• Surficial Geologic Map of Canada

Greenland

• Greenland Icesheet Project
• Climbing into the Greenland Ice Cap

Iceland

• Glaciers and Landforms of Iceland
  • Vatnajokull
• Bridamerkurjokull, Southeastern Iceland
• Landsat MSS Remote Sensing and GIS Analysis of Glacier Change and Dynamics for M&yacuterdals j&oumlkull, Iceland

United States

• General
  • ** The Ice Ages: Nice introduction to US continental glaciation by the Illinois State Museum
• Maine:
  • Acadia National Park Maine
  • A Field Trip to the Pineo Ridge Moraine/Delta Complex, Eastern Maine
• New York:
  • Chimney Bluff, an eroded drumlin on Lake Ontario.It is one of the many thousands found in upstate New York between Rochester and Syracuse.
  • Eastern New York Glaciation
  • Glacial evidence in the Shawangunks: A field trip.
  • Pleistocene History of Long Island
  • Seismic Hazard assessment, Onondata, County, NY . Donald H. Cadwell and Gary N. Nottis Seismic assessment of glacial sediments.
  • Studying Exposed Sections on Long Island: William J. Meyers. Stratigraphy of Ronkonkoma Moraine exposed in Ranco Quarry (Manorville).
• North Dakota
  • Eskers of North Dakota
• Vermont: Glacial History of Vermont
• Wisconsin: Wisconsin's Glacial Landscape

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Alpine Glaciation

• Features of alpine glaciation, 1997, Mustoe, M.
• Alaska:
  • **Multimedia Tour of Glacier Bay, Alaska (nasa)
  • Alaskan Glaciers: Malispina Glacier, Bering Glacier, Mt. Wrangell, Black Rapids Glacier
  • Photos from the Worthington Glacial Project (Alaska)
    • 27 mile glacier, Wortmanns, Columbia, Valdez
  • NPS Glacier Bay AK National Park
  • Surficial Geology of Kuparuk River Region, Brooks Range Northern Alaska. Dr. Thomas D. Hamilton, USGS
• California:
  • Yosemite Glaciers by John Muir (1871)
• Canada:
  • Guide to the Glaciers of Blackcomb Mt, BC
• Washington:
  • Olympic National Park, Coastal Washington: Glaciers
  • Glaciers on Mt. Rainier: USGS fact sheet
  • Glacier Peak, Washington
• Glaciers in Rocky Mt. National Park-discussion only

•  **Worthington Glacial Project (Alaska)
• Glacier Mass Balance Bulletin from the World Glacier Monitoring Service
• Hydraulic geometry of supraglacial streams,1995, Kostrzewski A., Zwoliƒski Zb.,Quaestiones Geographicae, Special Issue No. 4, Adam Mickiewicz, University Press, Poznaƒ, p. 165-176.83-232-685-6. ISSN 0137-477X.
• Iceflow interactive numerical model for alpine glacier dynamics
• Surging Glaciers
  • Recent Glacier Surges in the Karakoram Himalaya, South Central Asia, 1998, Kenneth Hewitt, American Geophysical Union.

• Finger Lakes of Alaska (NASA GFS)
• Proglacial Lake evolution during retreat of the Laurentide Ice sheet (image from UBC)
• Glacial Lake Missoula

• Pluvial Lake Bonneville (NASA GFS)
  

  

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Paleoclimatology Program
• Jonathan Adam's 150,000-year Quaternary vegetation atlas
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceoanography
• Ice core research from Secrets of the Ice, an Antarctic Expedition
• Atlas of Speleothem Microfabrics by L.Bruce Railsback, University of Georgia, Athens
• Ultimate Tree Ring Web Pages
• Palynology Page
• Illinois State Museum: Extinct animals of the Pleistocene
• Mammoth Saga site

• International Permafrost association
• International Glaciology Society
  • links page
• Northwest Glaciology Society

Research and reference sites

Journals, online and otherwise

• **American Geophysical Union
  • EOS
  • Recent Glacier Surges in the Karakoram Himalaya, South Central Asia
• Arctic and Alpine Research
• American Scientist
• BBC News about Science
• Berkley Lab Research Review Magazine Berkley Lab and Science Beat
  • The Ice Age Cometh
• Discover Magazine
• Dynamic Geomorphology
• Glacial Geology and Geomorphology (website links)
• Nature
• New Scientist
• Physics News Update
• ScienceDaily
• Science News Magazine
• SciNews
• Science Magazine
• Smithsonian Magazine
• SpaceDaily
• Universe Today

• *** ES 331/767 Ice Age Environments /Quaternary Geology Prof. James S. Aber, Earth Science Department, Emporia State University, Kansas, USA. Well presented lectures and interesting labs. ES767 web presentations contains numerous glacial and Quaternary student presentation.
• Virtual Field Trip: Glacial Features of Central Wisconsin
• Landforms of glaciation Created by Dr. Michael Pidwirny, Department of Geography, Okanagan University College
• Glaciers and glacial landforms, 2000, in Geomorphic elements of sedimentary geology, Richard S. Williams, Jr.
• Glaciers in Ohio? Ken Johnson, University of Cincinnati. Great images of glaciers and landforms
• ** Glacial Geology at UC Tomas Lowell, University of Cincinnati. Great images of everything
• The world of Ice Age Paleoecology. The home page for Scott Elias, INSTARR
• Glacial Geology at the University of Wisconsin
  • Glacier image page
• **** GL444 Glacial Geology: Dr. William W. Locke Professor, Geology Department of Earth Sciences Montana State University: Excellent site with graphics, animation and laboratory exercises.
  • Mass and Energy Exercise

• The Mammoth Saga: Dr. Ulf Carlberg, Department of Information Technology, Swedish Museum of Natural History. :Virtual exhibit of mammoths and other animals, and plants of the ice ages.
• Oneonta to the Hudson River Time Traveling through 400 Million Years of Earth History by Dr. Alexandra Moore and Andy Maillet
• The Creation Concept By Douglas Cox: Glacial geology from a creationists point of view
• The South Pole Home Page: History of exploration and more
  • Map
• Center for the Study of First Americans
• IUGS Geoindicators: Tools for assessing rapid environmental changes
  • glaciers, permafrost

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