Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Siegert, M. J. (2002) Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change, Chichester: Wiley. A wide-ranging text with
concise, contextual accounts of Ice Age origins, glacier dynamics and geomorphological processes before detailed
Late Pleistocene glacier/ice sheet reconstructions.
Williams, P. J. and Smith, M. W. (1989) The Frozen Earth: fundamentals of geocryology, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. An advanced scientific treatment of periglacial processes and landforms based on the fundamental laws of the
physics of ice.
WEB RESOURCES
http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/permafrost T
his is the permafrost website of the Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources
Canada. It is a valuable source of the latest studies of permafrost in the Canadian Arctic and Sub-arctic.
http://nsidc.org T
he National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University of Colorado at Boulder, in the United States,
gives up-to-date information and statistical data on many aspects of the cryosphere, including satellite photographs.
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk Th
e British Antarctic Survey at Cambridge administers the UK's Antarctic possessions on the
Antarctic mainland, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It carries out comprehensive research and survey
programmes on meteorology, geology, glaciology and marine ecology, together with a history of each of its research
stations, current weather and ice conditions, current news and press releases and a monthly research paper. It also
manages several themed image libraries.
https://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca T
he website of the Arctic Institute of North America, whose mission is to advance the
study of the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities of the North American and circumpolar Arctic region, and
to capture and disseminate information on the region's physical, environmental and social conditions. A good source
of related news, events, research, publications, library and photo archives.
http://www.acecrc.org.au A
ntarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (Australia) (ACE CRC) leads
Australia's efforts to understand the roles of Antarctica and the southern ocean in the global climate system and climate
change. The website highlights its research in this field, on projecting future sea-level change, ocean processing of
greenhouse gases, managing polar marine ecosystems and analysing the policy implications of polar sciences. There
are a wide range of hyperlinks to related websites in other countries.
