Ian D. Clark is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

(Canada), who has been publishing research on

geoscience Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four sphere ...

, groundwater and

geochemistry Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans. The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the ...

since 1982, and is currently teaching GEO 1111 with David Schneider. "Professor Ian Clark: Papers in refereed journals" (list),

, Canada, January 2009, webpage:
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. His graduate work in

isotope Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numb ...

hydrogeology Hydrogeology (''hydro-'' meaning water, and ''-geology'' meaning the study of the Earth) is the area of geology that deals with the distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth's crust (commonly in aqui ...

was at the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

and the

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. Clark, who is not a climatologist, is among the scientists who reject the mainstream scientific consensus on climate change; in the 2007 UK television documentary ''

The Great Global Warming Swindle ''The Great Global Warming Swindle'' is a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the scientific consensus about the reality and causes of climate change, justifying this by suggesting that climatolo ...

'', he asserted that changes in global temperature correlate with solar activity, saying "Solar activity of the last hundred years, over the last several hundred years correlates very nicely on a decadal basis, with sea ice and Arctic temperatures."

Works

*Ian Clark ''Groundwater Geochemistry and Isotopes'', 2015, *Ian Clark and Peter Fritz, ''Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology'', 1997, . *Ian Clark et al., 2015. ''Paleozoic-aged microbial methane in an Ordovician shale and carbonate aquiclude of the Michigan Basin, Southwestern Ontario. Organic Geochemistry. 83-84: 118-126. *Ian Clark et al., 2013. Paleozoic-aged brine and authigenic helium preserved in an Ordovician shale aquiclude. Geology, 41: 951-954 *Ian Clark and B Lauriol, "

Aufeis Aufeis, ( ), (German for "ice on top") is a sheet-like mass of layered ice that forms from successive flows of ground or river water during freezing temperatures. This form of ice is also called overflow, icings, or the Russian term, naled. The t ...

of the Firth River basin, northern Yukon, Canada: insights to permafrost hydrogeology and karst". ''Arctic and Alpine Research'', 29: 240-252, 1997. *Ian Clark, B Lauriol, L Harwood, M Marschner, "Groundwater Contributions to Discharge in a Permafrost Setting, Big Fish River, NWT, Canada", ''Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research'', 33: 62-69, 2001. *B Lauriol, ID Clark. ''An approach to determine the origin and age of massive ice blockage in two Arctic caves'', ''

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ''Permafrost and Periglacial Processes'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on permafrost and periglacial geomorphology. It covers the subject from various points of views including engineering, hydrology, process g ...

'', 1993. *I Clark, B Lauriol, M Marschner, N Sabourin, et al. ''Endostromatolites from permafrost karst, Yukon, Canada'', ''Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences'', 2004. *D Lacelle, B Lauriol, ID Clark, "Seasonal isotopic imprint in

moonmilk Moonmilk (sometimes called mondmilch, also known as montmilch or as cave milk) is a white, creamy substance found inside limestone, dolomite, and possibly other types of caves. It is a precipitate from limestone comprising aggregates of fine cry ...

from Caverne de l’Ours (Quebec, Canada): implications for climatic reconstruction". ''Canadian Journal of Earth Science'', 41: 1411-1423, 2004. *ID Clark, L Henderson, J Chappellaz, D Fisher et al., "CO₂ isotopes as tracers of

firn __NOTOC__ Firn (; from Swiss German "last year's", cognate with ''before'') is partially compacted névé, a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is ice that ...

air diffusion and age in an

Arctic ice cap The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts in spring and summer, reaches a minimum around mid-September, then increases during fall ...

with summer melting, Devon Island, Canada". ''Journal of Geophysical Research'' 112, D01301, , 2007.

References

External links

*"Professor Ian Clark: Research Interests",

, uOttawa.ca, 2009, webpage
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Ian Canadian geologists University of Waterloo alumni Academic staff of the University of Ottawa Living people 1954 births Hydrogeologists University of Paris alumni Canadian expatriates in France

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