Science 8 Polar Links

Antarctic Resources

•  antarctic science projects http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/start.htm

Arctic

• intro to the arctic website from colorado describes the work done at Summit ( formerly GISP2)
• hiking to the north pole - http://www.bbc.co.uk/northpole2001/
• arctic environmental atlas - interactive atlas using GIS - http://maps.grida.no
• arctic council - a variety of information here http://www.arctic-council.org
• arctic web page for pre- K students http://www.korrnet.org/finley/stevens/arctic.html
• veco polar support homepage - a summary of all research in the polar regions http://www.veco.com
• arctic climate research project -NASA program http://cires.colorado.edu/parca.htm

 

General Polar Resources

• National Science Foundation' office of polar programs home page http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/
• arctic science projects http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/arctic/start.htm
• polar resources availble through TEA
  http://tea.rice.edu/tea_sitesfront.html
• 3000 title bibliography on Greenlandic and Inuit culture
  http://www.ampinternational.gl.

Glaciers and snow - Ice Science

• All about glaciers
  http://nsidc.org/glaciers/
• glaciers of the world
  http://pubs.usgs.gov/factsheet/fs133-99//
• what happens when glaciers move? http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/Hubbard/Hubbard
• calving ice shelf in Antarctica -http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/Filchner/Filchner
• Ice science and glaciers of antartica from rice university
• snow crystal science, everything here from how do they form to making your own !! - http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

Greenland

• Greenland - all kinds of info -the best site to start
  http://www.glacier.rice.edu/land/5_tableofcontents.html
• greenland summit web cam - live pictures of the research station mrs. youngman will be at this summer

Polar meteorology

• polar meteorology - learn about the weather in the polar regions