podcast_episode / Apr 14
<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...
podcast_episode / Apr 14
<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...
podcast_episode / Apr 14
<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...
podcast_episode / Apr 14
<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...
article / Apr 14
This past April, Matt, along with a team that included glaciologist Alison Criscitiello, talked mountain adventure and climate science with school kids.
article / Apr 14
Dr. Alison Criscitiello presents: "Mount Logan and Axel Heiberg Island Ice Coring Expeditions". Posted by Steve Bommer · February 10, 2026.
article / Apr 14
Martin Sharp and Alison Criscitiello from the University of Alberta provide us with a history on Canadian core sampling efforts, an introduction to CICA's goals ...
article / Apr 14
Written by Alison Criscitiello. This story comes to us from the book Mountain Voices. Paired with photos from the Mountain Legacy Project ...
article / Apr 14
Alison Criscitiello is an ice core scientist and high-altitude mountaineer. She is Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab (CICL) at the University of Alberta.
news_article / Apr 14
Researchers hit rock bottom on Nunavut island - Nunatsiaq News
news_article / Apr 14
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? - Defector
news_article / Apr 14
Alison Criscitiello Receives Banff Summit of Excellence 2025 - Gripped Magazine
news_article / Apr 14
Celebrating International Women's Day 2026 - University of Alberta
news_article / Apr 14
In Her Element - University of Alberta
news_article / Apr 14
Hard core: How a team drilled a record ice core in the Canadian High Arctic - Canadian Geographic