• 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 Data Coordination Center
  - First stop for researchers collecting data in Antarctica
  
  
• 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
  
  
• CRREL Current Literature Search
  - Online research database, maintained by the USACE Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
  
  
• Cold Regions Bibliography Project
  - Bibliography Project of American Geological Institute on Cold Regions
  
  

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• 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. Also visit the Glacier Homepage.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA)
  - Follow teachers through their work with researchers in the Antarctic and Arctic and find out how you can be a TEA!
  
  
• Glacier Power: An Earth Sciences Curriculum Element
  - Designed for grades four through six by the Alaska SAR Facility Science Division.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Learning from Polar Ice Core Research
  - An understanding of long-term climate changes, with some surprises, is emerging from analysis of ice core samples. A more advanced article good for high school students from Environmental Science and Technology.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Deciphering Mysteries of Past Climate From Antarctic Ice Cores
  - The history of the world's climate is recorded in the layers of sediment that accumulated over thousands of years in ice and rock. Paleoclimatologists are studying sediment encapsulated in deep Antarctic ice to answer a few perplexing questions about the conditions that prevailed during the ice ages.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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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• 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.
  
  
• Antarctic Project homepage (U Wisconsin)
  - University of WIsconsin's Antarctic project homepage
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Ice Coring & Drilling Services
  - The group who provides ice core drilling for the U. S. Community
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Glaciology Group, University of Copenhagen
  - Homepage of the Glaciology Groups University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 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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• 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
  
  
• Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management.
  - JCADM is a joint committee of SCAR and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes (COMNAP). Its purpose is to advise SCAR and COMNAP on the management of Antarctic data. One of its key roles is to advise on the development of the Antarctic Data Management System including the recruitment of National Antarctic Data Centres (NADCs) and the encouragement of scientists to submit metadata to NADCs.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• VECO Polar Resources
  - VECO Polar Resources is the National Science Foundation's Arctic Logistics Contractor. VECO 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.
  
  

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• 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.
  
  
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project- WAIS Divide
  - Learn more about the new NSF project to recover an ice core from West 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 (WASI)
  - 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.
  
  
• Dome Fuji
  - The Japanese deep ice coring project at Dome Fuji, Antarctica
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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