Links

Antarctica

• British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
  BAS is one of the world's leading environmental research centres and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.
  
• Current Satellite Image of Antarctica
  Updated daily
  
• Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA)
  LIMA brings the coldest continent on earth alive in greater detail than ever before through this virtually cloudless, seamless, and high-resolution satellite view of Antarctica.
  
• The Antarctic Sun
  News about the U. S. Antarctic Program, the ice, and the people
  
• United States Antarctic Program (USAP) Web Portal
  USAP supports scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
  

Arctic

• Arctic Institute of North America
  Devoted to facilitating and disseminating all aspects of polar research
  
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
  Monitoring the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment
  
• NOAA Arctic Theme Page
  A comprehensive Arctic resource
  
• The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
  Advancing knowledge and understanding of the Arctic
  

Climate Change

• How the Greenhouse Effect Works
  An animated guide from BBC News
  
• IGLO: International Action on Global Warming
  A project of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
  
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
  Research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change
  
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Climate Research
  NCAR climate researchers are working to understand the impacts of global and regional climate change.
  
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Research
  NOAA's research laboratories, Climate Program Office, and research partners conduct a wide range of research into complex climate systems and how they work.
  
• RealClimate
  A blog on climate science by working climate scientists
  

Exploratorium Sites

• Auroras 2000
  Your guide to the northern and southern lights. News, NASA images, forecasts, and background on the aurora borealis.
  
• Auroras: Paintings in the Sky
  What are auroras? What makes them happen? What do they look like? Where can you see them?
  
• Global Climate Change: Research Explorer
  Global Climate Change: Research Explorer allows visitors to explore scientific data from many fields (physics, chemistry, biology, meteorology, and oceanography) relating to global warming.
  
• Origins (Antarctica): Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole
  Follow our crew as they visit the dry valleys and hike up the slopes of volcanic Mt. Erebus.
  
• Science from the Poles
  Webcast series from 2006/2007
  

For Teachers

• AGAP Curriculum Activities
  Curriculum Activities and Outreach for the "Mapping the Last Mountain Range on Earth" project
  
• ANDRILL Project Circle 2008
  Education and outreach for the ANDRILL and Off-Shore New Harbor science expeditions
  
• Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
  An online magazine for K-5 teachers
  
• EducaPoles
  The International Polar Foundation's educational site
  
• IceCube Educational Outreach
  Events, programs, acitivities, and other resources for educators from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
  
• Penguin Science Education Page
  Educational activities to help students learn about many interesting aspects of penguin life, history and their relationship to climate change, from the "Ross Sea Penguins" project
  
• PolarTREC
  An educational research experience in which K-12 teachers participate in polar research
  
• POLENET's Cool for Schools Page
  Materials for teachers from POLENET
  
• Teacher's Domain: Polar Sciences Collection
  Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development
  

Ice

• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
  Supporting research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glacier, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up earth's cryosphere.
  
• Terje Isungset, the Iceman Musician
  The ice instrument recording project
  

Other IPY Projects

• International Polar Year
  Umbrella site for IPY projects
  
• Penguin Science
  Understanding penguin response to climate and ecosystem change
  
• Polar Discovery: Expeditions to the Polar Regions
  From the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  
• Polar-palooza
  POLAR-PALOOZA is a multimedia initiative involving researchers, Alaskan Natives, in-person presentations at science centers and natural history museums, video and audio podcasts, and more.
  
• Rime of the Modern Mariner
  A horror writer’s winter journey to Antarctica
  
• Science Reports: Polar Discoveries
  From the Online Newshour
  
• U.S. International Polar Year
  Providing researchers, educators, the news media, and the general public with information about federally supported IPY research, expeditions, resources, events, and related activities.
  
• Unarctica
  Antarctic Expedition Blog for Young Readers
  

Polar Exploration History

• 1934 Wordie Arctic Expedition
  
  
• Antarctic Conservation Blog
  This blog describes what it's like to spend time in Antarctica conserving artifacts from the explorer's hut left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1908.
  

The People of the Arctic

• Iñupiat Heritage Center
  On the rooftop of the world, the Iñupiat Heritage Center in Barrow, Alaska, tells the story of the Iñupiat people.
  

Traditional Knowledge

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network
  Resources for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing
  
• Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA)
  ELOKA works to provide data management and user support to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and knowledge of the Arctic.
  
• SIKU: Sea Ice Knowledge and Use
  SIKU is one of several IPY 2007–2008 projects aimed at documenting indigenous observations of environmental changes in the polar areas.