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orange arrow  ICE CORES

National Ice Core Laboratory - U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) is a facility for storing, curating, and studying ice cores.
National Ice Core Laboratory: Science Management Office - The National Ice Core Laboratory Science Management Office (NICL-SMO) serves as a direct point of contact for principal investigators interested in access to ice cores.
Stable Isotope Laboratory - The University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) performs and promotes environmental change research using stable isotopes.
International Ice Core Data Cooperative - The International Ice Core Data Cooperative (CDC) was established as a means to facilitate storage, retrieval and communication of ice core and related glaciological/glaciochemical data.
WAISCORES Deep Ice Coring in West Antarctica - The WAISCORES site includes information on coring activity at Siple Dome and an inland site.
NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology: Ice Cores - Data from polar and low latitude mountain glaciers and ice caps are available.
NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Ice Core Gateway - The World Data Center's Ice Core Gateway provides a single portal to the ice core data archives of the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and World Data Center for Glaciology.

orange arrow  ANTARCTIC METEOROLOGY

Antarctic Meteorology Research Center - The Antarctic Meteorology Research Center (AMRC) supports the various National Science Foundation (NSF) grantees in the United States Antarctic Program by providing weather and remote sensing data.
Antarctic CRC - The Cooperative Research Center (CRC) is one of the largest research organizations in the world concerned with Polar Regions, conducting research primarily in the Australian Antarctic sector.

orange arrow  ANTARCTIC RESEARCH

United States Antarctic Resource Center - A joint effort of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Mapping Division and the National Science Foundation United States Antarctic Program, the USARC Web site provides a comprehensive collection of Antarctic maps, charts, satellite images, and photographs.
Byrd Polar Research Center - Research at the Byrd Polar Research Center focuses on the role of cold regions in the global climate system.
Arctic and Antarctic Research Center - The Arctic and Antarctic Research Center (AARC) maintains an archive of more than 120,000 satellite passes of the Earth's polar regions.
Committee for Environmental Protection - The Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) was established 14 January 1998 by the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.
Australian Antarctic Division - The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) has the responsibility for managing and distributing Australian Antarctic scientific data.
British Antarctic Survey - British Antarctic Survey (BAS) undertakes a world-class program of science in the Antarctic and related regions, addressing key global and regional issues through research, survey and monitoring.
U.S. Antarctic Data Coordination Center - The U.S. Antarctic Data Coordination Center at NSIDC collects metadata records associated with National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic research. The Coordination Center can assist researchers with meeting the metadata entry requirements of the NSF Data Policy.
LTER Network - The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1,800 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales.

orange arrow  ANTARCTIC FIELD EXPERIMENTS

Antarctic Megadunes - NSIDC's Antarctic Megadunes site provides background information regarding the Megadunes 2002 and 2004 deployments to the East Antarctic Plateau.
US ITASE - The United States International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) Web site provides background information regarding U.S. participation in the Antarctic expeditions.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Airborne Gravimetry - The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Airborne Gravimetry is an airborne geophysical program over West Antarctica.

orange arrow  ANTARCTIC RESOURCES

National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
National Science Foundation: Antarctic Glaciology Program - The glaciology program is concerned with the study of the history and dynamics of all naturally occurring forms of snow and ice, including floating ice shelves, glaciers, and continental and marine ice sheets.
National Science Foundation: FastLane - NSF's FastLane is an interactive real-time system used to conduct NSF business over the Internet. FastLane is for official NSF use only.
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is a committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU) charged with the initiation, promotion and co-ordination of scientific research in Antarctica.
The Marine Geoscience Data Management System: Antarctic Multibeam Synthesis Data Portal - The Antarctic Multibeam Synthesis Data Portal provide shaded relief maps, bathymetry grids, and multibeam bathymetry field data from the Southern Ocean.
Antarctic Digital Database - The Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) is the premier source of vector topographic data for Antarctica.
USGS: Atlas of Antarctic Research - The Atlas of Antarctic Research provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is designed to promote greater geographic awareness of the Antarctic continent and the digital geospatial data that describe it.
Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project - The Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) at NSIDC provides users with continent-wide mapping at resolutions up to 25 meters.
ARCSS Data Coordination Center - The Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center (ADCC)at the NSIDC is the permanent data archive for all components of the ARCSS Program.
AVHRR Data at NSIDC - NSIDC provides a summary of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data, including information about using AVHRR data to monitor the Antarctic Ice shelves.
Secrets of the Ice - Secrets of the Ice from the Museum of Science, Boston provides Antarctic geographic information, research information, and learning resources.
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica - The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica is the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) database of Antarctic place names and their locations.