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Data Links

• The Ice Core Gateway
  - Your one stop for ice core data by NCDC and NSIDC
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
  - At the University of Colorado
• Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center
  - University of Colorado at Boulder & Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences / National Snow and Ice Data Center
• U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center
  - The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center (USAP-DCC) is funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs to coordinate the management of data collected by U.S. funded scientists in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The USAP-DCC also operates as the U.S.'s National Antarctic Data Center in the SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management. The goals of the USAP-DCC are to help scientists find Antarctic scientific data of interest and to submit their data for curation and long term preservation in accordance with their obligations under the NSF Office of Polar Programs
• NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
  - Helps the World share scientific data and information related to climate system variability and predictability
• National Geophysical Data Center
  - Manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice)
• The Global Change Master Directory
  - A comprehensive source of information about satellite and in situ Earth science data, with broad coverage of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, oceans, solid earth, and biosphere
• Cold Regions Bibliography Project
  - Bibliography Project of American Geological Institute on Cold Regions

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Educational Sites

The following are some links to educational sites about ice cores, glaciers and climate change. Please let us know if you would like us to add your link.

• EARTH: The Operators' Manual
  - On Sunday, April 10, 2011, PBS debuted a new kind of program on climate change. "EARTH: The Operators' Manual" dispenses with politics, polemics or punditry; instead, it presents an objective, accessible assessment of the Earth's problems and possibilities that will leave viewers informed, energized and optimistic. Host Richard Alley - a geologist, contributor to the United Nations panel on climate change and former oil company employee - leads the audience on this engaging one-hour special about climate change and sustainable energy. The program is available for teachers to download and use in class for one year after the PBS premiere.
• Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) K-12 Education Resources
  - K-12 students and teachers are invited to explore the many learning and teaching resources available from CReSIS K-12 education page. You will find lesson ideas, maps, images, and updates about the research our team is doing. Opportunities for talks by scientists and other resources for science teachers will also be found here.
• Climate Expeditions
  - Climate Expeditions it the home of the education and outreach program for the Ice Drilling Program Office. Our goal is to provide cutting-edge information based on current ice core research for educators, students and the public in a way that contributes to your classroom or informal science program efforts, and that provides data that is useful to decision-makers of all backgrounds. Our website name is inspired not only by the "extreme" travel undertaken by ice core drillers and climate scientists, but also for the mindful explorations undertaken by you, your students or your colleagues as you engage with the resources provided here.
• ANTARCTICA the farthest place close to home
  - These resources are based on curriculum materials developed by Education Development Center, Inc. and Rice University with funding support from the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education in the Directorate of Education and Human Resources and the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation.
• Classroom Antarctica
  - Enjoy using the ideas in Classroom Antarctica to stimulate your students' interest in real world applications for Science, Mathematics and Studies of Society and Environment. These activities can be used to enhance writing, literature, art, team building and creative thinking skills in your students as well. Put your students in the picture! Classroom Antarctica is aimed at Upper Primary and Lower Secondary levels (Years 5 to 8). Unit 6 has an ice core activity.
• Climate Ark
  - The Premier Climate Change Portal/Search Engine
• USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory Information about:
  - Snowpack and Ice Accumulation
  - Glaciations, Ice Sheets, and Glacial Lakes
• All about Glaciers
  - From the National Snow and Ice Data Center
  - Visit their Educational Links
• The Antarctic Exploratorium
  - Scientific journeys from McMurdo to the Pole
• Live From Antarctica 2
  - This is a "Passport To Knowledge" (PTK) project, supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Polar Programs, with satellite telecommunications made possible by NASA's ACTS Satellite Experiments Program. The program used "multi-media" resources (live telecasts, on-line resources, and hands-on print curriculum resources) to connect the classroom to the real world and to fulfill PTK's mission to place science in culture's mainstream. The on-line and live video portions of the field trip are partially underwritten by NASA and NSF and are free to educators.
• Warnings from the Ice
  - NOVA's coverage of Antarctic ice core research.
• Snow Crystals
  - This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes.
• Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
  - Check out their Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North Exhibit and even see an actual ice core at the museum.
• Mountain of Ice
  - NOVA follows a group of explorers and scientists as they scale Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest peak, collecting snowfall data along the way to help determine Antarctic ice flow. Teacher's Guide
• Into the Arctic
  - Information and Educational Activities for Studying Climate.
• Willi Dansgaard: Frozen Annals - Greenland Ice Sheet Research
  - Willi Dansgaard has played a pivotal role in developing ice core research into one of the most powerful tools in present studies of past climate changes. In this book (which is available as a FREE pdf download), Willi Dansgaard gives his personal perspective on the history of ice core research from the pioneering years in the early 1950's until the successful termination of the NorthGRIP (Greenland) ice coring in 2004.
• Chester C. Langway, Jr: The History of Early Polar Ice Cores
  - This report was prepared by Dr. Chester C. Langway, Jr., a former researcher at the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment (SIPRE), Wilmette, IL, and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Hanover, NH, (1956-1975) and a former faculty member at the University at Buffalo (State University of New York) (1975-1994). During his years at SIPRE and CRREL, he participated in and was responsible for developing the SIPRE/CRREL field and laboratory ice core research program, the core sample storage responsibilities, and the scientific redistribution of ice core samples for external studies. During his last nine years at CRREL he also served as Chief, Snow and Ice Research Branch.
• Portal to Polar Links
  - During the Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modelling, and Forecasting Workshop (Roma, Italy, 26-28 June 2007) was born the idea of a website collecting the links to Arctic and Antarctic sites. This website makes this function. The sites have been divided in categories, and, inside them, in nationality to which they belong. Maintained by the Italian Antarctic Research Program.

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Institutional Sites

The following are links to institutional sites. If you know of other sites please let us know so we can add them.

• Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  - The National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs automatic weather station project places automatic weather station (AWS) units in remote areas of Antarctica in support of meteorological research and operations. The AWS data are collected by the ARGOS Data Collection System on board the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) series of polar-orbiting satellites.
• Byrd Polar Research Center
  - at the Ohio State Univeristy. A very good reference site with a very good links page.
• Center for Geophysical Studies of Ice and Climate
  - A National Science Foundation sponsored research project based in the Physics Department at St. Olaf College, MN.
• Climate Change Institute
  - University of Maine
• Climate Change Research Center
  - The University of New Hampshire
• Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
  - An unique facility of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that addresses the problems and opportunities unique to the world's cold regions.
• U.S. Ice Drilling Program
  - The U.S. Ice Drilling Program comprises scientists seeking to better understand evidence of the past archived in polar ice sheets and high-latitude glaciers, along with drillers who enable the science. Polar ice sheets and high-altitude glaciers are unique natural archives containing high-resolution climate data including samples of abrupt change, ancient air, and ancient life. Discoveries about changes in climate and the environment, using evidence from glaciers and ice sheets, inform environmental policy. The National Science Foundation has recently formed the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) to coordinate long-term and short-term planning for the greater US ice science community, and to oversee the Ice Drill Design and Operations Group (IDDO), to ensure that the drilling technology will be there when the science needs it.
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
  - University of Colorado at Boulder
• National Ice Core laboratory
  - This is where the U.S. stores and works on ice cores
• NOAA South Pole Observatory -- South Pole, Antarctica
  - Maintains monitoring programs in greenhouse and other trace gases, atmospheric aerosols, solar radiation variability, stratospheric ozone and meteorological parameters
• Alfred Wegener Institute
  - the German National Centre for Polar and Marine research
• Australian Antarctic Division
  - the Australian Government Antarctic Division
• British Antarctic Survey
  - British Antarctic Survey
• Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
  - Homepage of the Glaciology Groups University of Copenhagen
• Climate and Environmental Physics
  - A research division of the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, devoted to the investigation of physical processes in the climate and environmental system.
• Italian Antarctic Research Program
  - Italian research on the Antartic continent.
• Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique del'Environnement (LGGE)
  - A glaciology research center of University of Joseph Fourier
• National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
  - Japanese Polar Research Center
• Norsk Polarinstitutt (Norwegian Polar Institute)
  - Norway's principal institution for research, environmental monitoring and mapping in the Norwegian polar regions. The Institute advises the authorities on environmental issues in the Arctic, Antarctic and Barents region.
• Scott Polar Research Institute
  - University of Cambridge
• Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
  - Information about Swedish Polar Research

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Organizations

• U.S. Ice Drilling Program
  - The U.S. Ice Drilling Program comprises scientists seeking to better understand evidence of the past archived in polar ice sheets and high-latitude glaciers, along with drillers who enable the science. Polar ice sheets and high-altitude glaciers are unique natural archives containing high-resolution climate data including samples of abrupt change, ancient air, and ancient life. Discoveries about changes in climate and the environment, using evidence from glaciers and ice sheets, inform environmental policy. The National Science Foundation has recently formed the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) to coordinate long-term and short-term planning for the greater US ice science community, and to oversee the Ice Drill Design and Operations Group (IDDO), to ensure that the drilling technology will be there when the science needs it.
• National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
  - Home page of National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, United States who fund most of the U.S ice core research.
• SCAR
  - Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
  - Information and Resources Regarding Research in the Arctic
• Polar Research Board
  - National Academy of Sciences
• Arctic Theme
  - The Arctic Theme page is sponsored by NOAA's Arctic Research Program and has been favorably reviewed by Science Magazine, Scientific American, Yahoo, USA Today, etc. A rich and comprehensive resource web site focused on the Arctic.
• The International Glaciological Society
  - Scientific society for those who study glaciers.
• World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)
  - The WGMS collects standardised observations on changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers with time (glacier fluctuations), as well as statistical information on the distribution of perennial surface ice in space (glacier inventories).
• The Antarctic Connection
  - Provides educational and informative material as well as conscienciously chosen fun and entertaining products.
• Raytheon Polar Services Company
  - Raytheon Polar Services was formed to specifically meet the needs of the NSF's Office of Polar Programs.
• CH2M HILL Polar Services (CPS)
  - CH2M HILL Polar Services (CPS) is the National Science Foundation's Arctic Logistics Contractor. CPS provides a wide variety of services to NSF-funded researchers working in Arctic regions, including field camps and gear, communications, engineering, air charters, and cargo movement.
• US Global Change Research Information
  - The US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access to data and information on climate change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change-related educational resources on behalf of the various US Federal Agencies that are involved in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)

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Projects

The following are links to ice coring projects. If you know of other sites please let us know so we can add them.

• U.S. Ice Drilling Program
  - The U.S. Ice Drilling Program comprises scientists seeking to better understand evidence of the past archived in polar ice sheets and high-latitude glaciers, along with drillers who enable the science. Polar ice sheets and high-altitude glaciers are unique natural archives containing high-resolution climate data including samples of abrupt change, ancient air, and ancient life. Discoveries about changes in climate and the environment, using evidence from glaciers and ice sheets, inform environmental policy. The National Science Foundation has recently formed the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) to coordinate long-term and short-term planning for the greater US ice science community, and to oversee the Ice Drill Design and Operations Group (IDDO), to ensure that the drilling technology will be there when the science needs it.
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project (WAIS Divide)
  - WAIS Divide is a United States deep ice coring project in West Antarctica funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is the second component to the larger WAISCORES initiative. The purpose of the WAIS Divide project is to collect a deep ice core from the flow divide in central West Antarctica in order to develop a unique series of interrelated climate, ice dynamics, and biologic records focused on understanding interactions among global earth systems. The WAIS Divide ice core will provide Antarctic records of environmental change with the highest possible time resolution for the last ~100,000 years and will be the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Greenland GISP2, GRIP, and North GRIP ice cores.
• North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM)
  - The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) is an international ice core research project aimed at retrieving an ice core from Northwest Greenland reaching back through the previous interglacial, the Eemian. The project logistics is managed by the Centre for Ice and Climate, Denmark, and the air support is carried out by US ski equipped Hercules managed through the US Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
• International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)
  - With the completion of major projects in Greenland and Antarctica over the last 15 years, the international ice coring community is planning for the next several decades. The costs and scope of future work create the need for coordinated international collaboration. Developing this international collaboration is the charge of IPICS, the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences, a planning group currently composed of ice core scientists, engineers, and drillers from 18 nations.
• Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica
  - A massive, largely unexplored region, the East Antarctic ice sheet looms large in the global climate system, yet relatively little is known about its climate variability or the contribution it makes to sea level changes. The field expedition for this international partnership involves scientific investigations along two overland traverses in East Antarctica: one going from the Norwegian Troll Station to the United States South Pole Station in 2007-2008; and a return traverse by a different route in 2008-2009. This project will investigate climate change in East Antarctica.
• U. S. International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition
  - Scientific traverses across the Antarctic. Visit the main ITASE site
• Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2
  - Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) penetrated through the ice sheet and 1.55 meters into bedrock recovering an ice core 3053.44 meters in depth, the deepest ice core recovered in the world at the time. This website is the portal to the valuable information obtained during the drilling program.
• Taylor Dome Ice Core Project
  - Information and data from the Taylor Dome Ice core project, Antarctica
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative (WAIS)
  - A Multidisciplinary Study of Rapid Climate Change and Future Sea Level
• European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)
  - EPICA is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica. Its main objective is to obtain full documentation of the climatic and atmospheric record archived in Antarctic ice by drilling and analyzing two ice cores and comparing these with their Greenland counterparts.
• North Greenland Ice core Project (NGRIP)
  - NGRIP is a multinational research program, funded by participating institutions in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Iceland and the US. Primary sponsor is the Danish Research Council. The research objective to retrieve and analyze a 3080 m long ice core drilled through the Greenland ice sheet.
• Greenland Icecore Project (GRIP)
  - GRIP has been a multinational European research project, organized through the European Science Foundation (ESF). GRIP successfully drilled a 3028 meter ice core to the bed of the Greenland ice sheet at Summit.
• Dome Fuji
  - The Japanese deep ice coring project at Dome Fuji, Antarctica

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