The Quaternary Period is the geologic time period after the Neogene Period roughly 2.588 million years ago to the present.
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- NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice Educational website to accompany TV program offers information about Antarctica and about how ice cores provide a record of the past. Discusses how the world's coastlines would recede if some or all of the Antarctic ice were to melt.
- Cracking the Ice Age Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources.
- Midwestern US 16,000 Years Ago: An Exhibit at the Illinois Museum Deglaciation and late Pleistocene animals and plants.
- Cambridge Quaternary Collaborators from several departments engaged in study of paleogeography, Quaternary history and stratigraphy, geoarcheology, palynology, paleontology, and related topics. Describes research, personnel, facilities, and activities.
- The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved.
- Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College Information about student research, with numerous links.
- Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas.
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Information about the central institute of German polar research, its history, its facilities and research ships, and research topics related to geology and biology of the polar regions and world oceans.
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Data Center Archive for paleoclimate data, research, and education. Climate reconstructions and contributed data sets including: borehole data, climate forcing, corals, fauna, ice cores, insects, paleoclimate modeling, paleolimnology, paleoceanography, plant macrofossils, pollen, and tree ring.
- Beringian Atlas Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
- Quaternary Information from Wikipedia on the Quaternary Period, the geologic time period after the Neogene Period continuing from about 2.6 million years ago to the present.
- Rutgers University Quaternary Studies Offers a multidisciplinary graduate certificate program allowing students to specialize in the study of the last few million years in earth's history, incorporating anthropology, geology, geography, biology, meteorology, and environmental science.
- Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa Information about research in the analysis and modeling of climate changes and their impacts on ecosystems. Particular focus is on recent history in Canada and the Arctic.