About Us

Meet the Team

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Alison Criscitiello, PhD
Director, CICL

Alison is an ice core scientist, with a focus on exploring paleoclimate and the history of sea ice in polar regions using ice core chemistry. She drills ice cores in Antarctica and the Canadian high Arctic. Alison is an alpine guide and the founder and co-director of Girls on Ice Canada.

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Anne Myers, PhD
Ice Core Laboratory Analyst, CICL

Anne is an environmental and analytical chemist working in the ice core lab.

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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.

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Research Highlights

Location

Project
Devon Island,
Nunavut
 Investigating the subglacial lakes on the Devon Ice Cap and their potential for life
Ellesmere Island,
Nunavut
 Investigating temporal trends of emerging pollutant and mercury deposition through ice core sampling on northern Ellesmere Island
Axel Heiberg Island,
Nunavut
 Drilling on the island to study the history of sea ice variability in the area west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Mount Logan,
The Yukon Territory
 Re-drilling of the Mount Logan summit plateau ice core, a high-resolution record of Pacific climate variability
Columbia Icefield,
Western Canada
 Deep ice coring on the icefield (Snow Dome) to investigate contaminant burdens stored in the ice which may be increasingly released in the warming climate, and to explore the recent history of black carbon deposition on the icefield from major forest fires in western Canada

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Contact CICL

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

Anne Myers, Ice Core Laboratory Analyst
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