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Northern Latitudes: Northern Latitudes - Alison Criscitiello: What the Ice Remembers

<p>What the Ice Remembers</p><p>Preserving Climate History with Alison Criscitiello</p><p>Ice is one of the planet’s most faithful historians. Layer by layer, it records volcanic eruptions, atmospheric chemistry, temperature shifts, and traces of human activity stretching back tens of thousands of years.</p><p>In this episode of Northern Latitudes, Bill Ault speaks with Alison Criscitiello, Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta, about what ice cores reveal.</p><p>Beyond the science, this conversation explores the human side of polar research. Alison reflects on building a career in re...

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En tête-à-tête | Le podcast de Voix Nomades: Women lifting other women is changing science, with Alison Criscitiello

<p>“Diverse groups produce better science. That’s a fact.”</p><p>This idea sits at the heart of our conversation with Alison Criscitiello, glaciologist, mountaineer, and director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta.</p><p>In this episode of En tête-à-tête, recorded during the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, we explore the world of glaciers, not just as landscapes of ice, but as archives of our planet’s past.</p><p>Alison spends her life drilling ice cores, cylinders of ancient ice that allow scientists to read the climate history of the Eart...

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En tête-à-tête | Le podcast de Voix Nomades: Quand les femmes se soutiennent entre elles, la science progresse, avec Alison Criscitiello 🇫🇷 (Version doublée en français)

<p>“Des équipes avec de la diversité produisent une meilleure science. C’est un fait.”</p><p>Dans cet épisode de En tête-à-tête, nous recevons Alison Criscitiello, glaciologue, alpiniste et directrice du Canadian Ice Core Lab à l’Université de l’Alberta.</p><p>Enregistrée lors du Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, cette conversation nous plonge dans l’univers fascinant des glaciers, non pas seulement comme paysages, mais comme véritables archives du passé de notre planète.</p><p>À travers les carottes de glace qu’elle étudie, Alison décrypte l’histoire du climat : atmosphères, éruptions volcaniques, feux...

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Let's Take This Outside: Dr. Alison Criscitiello - Ice Core Scientist

<p>Dr. Alison Criscitiello is an ice core scientist and high-altitude mountaineer. She is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at University of Alberta, and co-founder of Girls on Ice Canada. </p> <p>Criscitiello explores the history of climate and sea ice in polar and high-alpine regions using ice core chemistry. This involves long months of living in a tent and drilling ice cores in places like Antarctica, Greenland, the Yukon, and the Canadian high Arctic. Criscitiello's work also focuses on environmental contaminant histories in ice cores from the Canadian high Arctic and the w...

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ACC Archived Blog - Alpine Club of Canada

This past April, Matt, along with a team that included glaciologist Alison Criscitiello, talked mountain adventure and climate science with school kids.

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The State of Canada's Ice Core Archive

Martin Sharp and Alison Criscitiello from the University of Alberta provide us with a history on Canadian core sampling efforts, an introduction ...