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

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a Official bilingualism in Canada, bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ot ...

(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 spheres ...

, 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 e ...

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 distinct nuclear species (or ''nuclides'') of the same chemical element. They have the same atomic number (number of protons in their Atomic nucleus, nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemica ...

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 rock (geology), rocks of the Earth's crust (ge ...

was at the

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and the

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. Clark, who is a palaioclimatologist, is among the scientists who reject the mainstream

scientific consensus on climate change There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the Earth has been consistently warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution, that the rate of recent warming is largely unprecedented, and that this warming is mainly the result o ...

; 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 (director), Martin Durkin. The film Climate change denial, denies the Scientific consensus on climate change, scientific consensus about ...

'', 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." The only

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, Textile, rags, poaceae, grasses, Feces#Other uses, herbivore dung, or other vegetable sources in water. Once the water is dra ...

co-authored by Ian Clark about

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

has been ''Critical Topics in Global Warming'', published by the

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, organization that has accepted funding of

fossil fuel A fossil fuel is a flammable carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the buried remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants or microplanktons), a process that occurs within geolog ...

corporations like

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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 of the Firth River basin, northern Yukon, Canada: insights to

permafrost Permafrost () is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more; the oldest permafrost has been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years. Whilst the shallowest permafrost has a vertical extent of below ...

hydrogeology and

karst Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and Dolomite (rock), dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. Ther ...

". ''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'', 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 bergmilch, montmilch, or 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 o ...

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

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External links

*"Professor Ian Clark: Research Interests",

, uOttawa.ca, 2009, webpage
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