About Us


Meet the Team

Alison Criscitiello

Alison Criscitiello, PhD
Director, CICL

Alison is an ice core scientist, with a focus on exploring paleoclimate and sea ice history in polar regions using ice core chemistry. She drills ice cores in Antarctica and the Canadian high Arctic. 

Alison's Publications: ORCiDGoogle Scholar

Anne Myers

Anne Myers, PhD
Ice Core Laboratory Manager, CICL

Anne has a background in environmental and analytical chemistry. She manages day-to-day lab operations and supports researchers in their data collection.

Anne's Publications: ORCiD

Meg Harlan

Meg Harlan, PhD 

Ice Core Laboratory Analyst, CICL

Meg is an ice core scientist working to develop CICL's continuous flow analysis system to measure high resolution ice core data. Her research focus is on ice core chemistry and tephrochronology.

Meg's Publications: ORCiD
Read about Meg's research

Kira Holland

Kira Holland, MSc
PhD Candidate, CICL

Kira is a paleoclimatologist using the geochemistry of ice to reconstruct past climate and environmental conditions. Her current research focuses on the new 2022 Mount Logan ice core in the interest of better understanding ocean-atmosphere variability of the North Pacific.  

Kira's Publications: ORCiDGoogle Scholar
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Megan Stewart

Megan Stewart, BSc
MSc Student, CICL

Megan has a background in environmental sciences. Her current focus is on the use of halogen proxies in ice cores to reconstruct sea ice conditions in the Canadian Arctic.  

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Hanaa Yousif

Hanaa Yousif, MPhil
PhD Candidate, CICL/Volcanic Ash Research Group

Hanaa is interested in Quaternary environmental change and volcanism. Her focus is the analysis of volcanic ash to facilitate the dating and correlation of paleoclimate archives. 

Read about Hanaa's research

Head shot of Martin Sharp, a glaciologist and Scientific Director of the Canadian Ice Core Archive.

Martin Sharp, PhD
(emeritus), CICL

Martin is a glaciologist with particular interests in interactions between glaciers and the climate system, as well as hydrochemical processes in glacial environments.

Martin's Publications: ORCiDGoogle Scholar


past members

Jinhwa Shin, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
Siobhan Killingbeck, Swansea University 
Bonnie Hamilton, University of Ottawa
Sofia Guest, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI)


Contact CICL

Alison Criscitiello, CICL Director
Office Phone: 780-492-0867
E-mail: crisciti@ualberta.ca

Anne Myers, Ice Core Laboratory Manager
Office Phone: 780-492-0867
E-mail: almyers@ualberta.ca

Mailing Address
Canadian Ice Core Lab (CICL)
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Faculty of Science, University of Alberta
1-09 South Academic Building (SAB)
116th St & 85 Ave NW
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2R3