Glaciers and Ice Ages

Definitions of glacial features and the processes of glaciers.

Pictures of glacial features and the processes of glaciers.

A dozen tough ones on the subject of ice and ice ages. I bet you'll freeze up when those big-money questions come around.

Ways of examining glaciers close up, inside, and underneath.

Antarctica is a special place, no matter how you look at it.

Earth modelers believe that the cool climate of the last 50 million years is related to unusually great erosion.

A stimulating hypothesis makes the Flood the final encore of the Ice Age.

My pictures and notes from a research cruise in the Gulf of Alaska.

Hidden beneath its forests is a set of Ice Age remnants.

Some of New York's most distinctive features are marks of glacial action.

Jökulhlaups are peculiar glacial floods, as impressive as the people who live with them.

Part of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, this illustrated list has about 180 different definitions.

A worldwide nonprofit organization to speak for the penguins and seals. Good links and a newsletter.

The U.S. National Science Foundation supports several important research projects on the icy continent.

A background paper by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators.

Home page for National Science Foundation projects in the icy ocean.

Researcher Chris Clark used satellite images and GIS technology to assemble this map and database.

The Byrd Center hosts a panoply of Antarctic and Arctic research.

An agency of Environment Canada, the CIS has images, information, and data for the whole Canadian Arctic.

This site by the National Snow and Ice Data Center is a first-rate entree to material on glaciers, snow, icebergs, polar climate, and more.

A great glacier site, focused mainly but not exclusively on Antarctica, from Rice University.

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project monitors the world's glaciers using the ASTER satellite.

A short exhibit from the Illinois State Museum that covers all the main points in everyday language.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research has wide-ranging scientific programs relating to icy and glaciated regions.

This program floats instrumented buoys in the Arctic ice pack and shares the resulting data. Follow the buoys on the monthly maps.

Cambridge University's wide-ranging annotated list of Arctic and Antarctic collections—many of them linked here.

U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386I is full of pictures from space and from the air, too.

An international blanket organization with many subprograms in all parts of Earth science.

This agency coordinates Arctic and Antarctic science for Germany.

This ice sheet could affect global sea level if it collapsed. Background info and scientific results are here.