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Proactive disclosure Print version   | |  Ice-Core Expedition 2001 The Team
DAVID FISHER
Despite the challenging logistics of its extreme location, ICE2001 is, above all, a scientific expedition. Coordinating the science of ICE2001 is David Fisher, whose background is perfect for the job. David was born in 1944 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He received a B.Sc. in Maths and Physics from Carleton University (Ottawa) in 1966 and a Masters in Astrophysics at the University of Manchester in 1970. In 1977, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen, at the Isotope Laboratory within the Geophysics Institute. His specialty includes ice cores and paleo-climate history in Canada's Arctic and Greenland. David worked on the Polar Continental Shelf Project for several years, particularly on ice cores from Devon Island. Now with Natural Resources Canada's Geological Survey of Canada, he has turned to paleo-climate studies on a global scale, bringing together clues to the past given by such means as ice cores, tree rings and cultural records. David's particular expertise has enabled him to contribute to studies of polar ice caps on Mars. Prospector-Russell Team MIKE DEMUTH
Mike's competence and quiet leadership led to his appointment as ICE2001 expedition leader as well as chief of the vital Prospector-Russell drill camp at 5,340 metres. Born in 1960, Mike hails from Calgary, getting his first degree from the University of Calgary and went on to study at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium. He is now working on his Ph.D. from the Open University, through the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, U.K. Mike was introduced to glaciology by Gerry Holdsworth and is now a seasoned glaciologist and alpinist. He now works with the Natural Resources Canada's Geological Survey of Canada. ICE2001 is his fifth trip to Logan, which he has twice climbed. As well as the intense demands of leadership on this difficult expedition, Mike must satisfy the scientific demands of his chosen specialty, the recent accumulation record of snow in relation to North Pacific climate and water resources, with particular reference to the glaciers of Canada's western mountains. The importance of Mike's scientific studies, which will lead to a better understanding and forecasting of water resources for western Canada, including the prairies, can scarcely be overstated. HÅKAN SAMUELSSON
Håkan will be at ICE2001's highest camp, for which he will be well suited with his background in mountaineering and sampling technology. Born in 1973, he lives in Kiruna in northern Sweden. He obtained a Masters degree in Glaciology from the University of Uppsala. His current work includes trace-metal analysis of tree cores for the commercial laboratory, Dendrolab, in Kiruna, from which he has taken a leave of absence for ICE2001. He has worked on a large ice-coring project in Spitzbergen on the icefield Lommonsovfonna. Last winter, he did field work on the glaciers at the Tarfala Research Station in the northernmost part of Sweden. Håkan's highest elevation to date has been the summit of Mont Blanc (4809 m), which he climbed in 1997. He plans to add other impressive mountains to his accomplishments. MIKE WASKIEWICZ
A veteran meteorologist, Mike is at home in the ice and snow in the high mountains and will perfectly complement the team at the high drill site at Prospector-Russell Col. Born in Poland in 1953, he obtained his first degree from the University of Krakow in 1978. He also has a Masters of Meteorology from the University of Alberta. Now living in Edmonton, Mike has his own company, Data-Logging North. For the past decade Mike has installed meteorological stations, including ones on Logan's King Col and on the Seward Glacier in 2000. Mike's accomplishments range from wood craftsmanship to adventure - he has reached the North Pole on foot. ERIC RUFFA
Comfortable at high altitude, experienced in mountaineering and a jack-of-all trades, Eric is perfectly suited for the demanding work at the high drill camp at Prospector-Russell Col. Born in New York City in 1957, he obtained a B.A. in science from U. California at Berkley in 1977 and promptly settled in B.C. which has been his home ever since. Most of his time in B.C. is spent high in the coastal mountains or sea kayaking. This included work in the early '80s on glacial studies for Environment Canada. He has also spent some time, from 1993 through 1997, at 6,000 to 7,000 metres in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. For the past decade, Eric has spent summers cycling and climbing in the Yukon. He looks forward to more opportunities working in Canada's western mountains. STEVE BERTOLLO
Steve brings high altitude experience and mountaineering skills to the high drill camp at Prospector-Russell Col. Born in Ontario, Steve completed the Environmental Studies course at the University of Waterloo. He now lives in Field, B.C., where his time includes volunteer studies of wildlife in Canada's western mountains. Steve also works with ICE2001's Mike Demuth, studying the behaviour of western mountain glaciers. For the last 15 years, Steve has been climbing in Alaska and the Yukon, including a four-week circuit of the Mount Logan massif in 1985. Steve has no plans to leave mountaineering. JEFF BELLIS
Jeff contributes the special qualities needed at the high drill camp - the ability to function well with extremes of thin air, low temperature, high winds and isolation. Strength and stability are needed for ICE2001, and Jeff has them. Born in Vancouver in 1976, he now lives in Revelstoke, B.C. He has a B.Sc. in Geography from the University of Calgary. He has built up ,and has (11) even years of mountaineering experience in Western Canada. He has been a forest fire fighter in B.C. In 2000, he completed the Annapurna circuit in Nepal, which took him over the Thorong La (pass) at 5,300 m, about the same elevation of the ICE2001 high camp. In particular, Jeff is at home on skis, the sole means of moving around the ICE2001 area. King Col Team CHRIS ZDANOWICZ
Chris is the leader of the intermediate camp at King Col, elevation about 4,200 metres. Born in Montreal in 1966, he earned a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Montreal in 1991 and a Masters in Earth Sciences from Carleton University (Ottawa) in 1994. His Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, from the University of New Hampshire, is on the interpretation of environmental records from ice cores. He has obtained and analyzed ice cores from the Penny Ice Cap on southern Baffin Island in a joint GSC and UNH project. He now works as a glaciologist for Natural Resources Canada's Geological Survey of Canada. Chris is one of those fortunate people who combine work with pleasure - in his case a love of being in the Arctic and mountains and the satisfaction of a stimulating and worthwhile scientific field. GERALD HOLDSWORTH
Gerry brings four decades of world-class science and polar and mountain experience to the harsh and exacting conditions at King Col. He was born in New Zealand in 1939. After an initial degree in civil engineering, he studied geology and then glaciology, eventually winning a fellowship at the Institute of Polar Studies at Ohio State University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Geology/Geophysics in 1969. During his professional career, he held senior research positions with Canada's Department of Energy Mines and Resources and Department of Environment, including the National Hydrology Research Institute. His extensive remote travels include the Andes (where he recorded several first ascents), Canada's western mountains, the Arctic Archipelago and have even included an Arctic Ocean "ice island". In 1974 he turned to Mount Logan as a promising ice core site for paleo-environmental studies. In 1980, he led the first ice-coring project on Mt. Logan and following that has been six times back to the mountain. Since 1992, he has conducted his research at the Arctic Institute of North America, located at the University of Calgary. In Gerry Holdsworth, ICE2001 is fortunate to have an authority on the science of the icefields and mountain glaciers of the eastern part of the St. Elias Mountains. KAPLAN YALCIN
Kaplan's mountaineering background, education and scientific experience complements the team at the intermediate site of King Col. Born in St. Louis in 1975, he obtained a B. Sci. in Geology at the University of Missouri in 1998. Now at the University of New Hampshire, he is finishing his Masters degree on a project to analyze the sulphate record an ice core taken in 1996 from the Eclipse Icefield, NE of Mt. Logan. He plans to continue his studies for a Ph.D. He plans to retrieve additional ice cores from mid-elevation sites in the St. Elias Range that should provide a unique record of the volcanic activity in the North Pacific, especially the Kamchatka Peninsula. Quintino Sella Team ROY "FRITZ" KOERNER
Roy brings over 40 years of experience as a glaciologist to this expedition. He is in charge of the Quintino Sella camp, which is the start point for the ski ascent to King Col and other sites. Work carried out at this site will include snow sampling, shallow coring, and processing of drill chips for pollen. Born in the United Kingdom in 1933, he received a BA and MA in Geography from the University of Sheffield and a PhD in Geography from the London School of Economics. As an Emeritus scientist with the Natural Resources Canada's Geological Survey of Canada, Roy is continuing to contribute to the 40 year record of mass balance on four high Arctic ice caps. His work on ice cores is with particular reference to ice layers and their climate signal. He is the Canadian representative on the Glacier working group (MAGICS) of the International Arctic Science Council (IASC) and on the Glacier working group of the Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research(SCAR). He is Co-leader (with Greg Zielinski, Univ. New Hampshire) of the PAGES Ice core Arctic Paleoclimate Programme. KUMIKO GOTO-AZUMA
ICE 2001 is an international project, and is fortunate to have a Japanese representative skilled in both the science of snow and ice and the physical challenge of living amidst snow and ice. Kumiko has impressive scientific credentials. Born in Sapporo, Japan, in 1958, she attended the University of Hokkaido, where she Bachelors and Masters degrees in the Department of Applied Science. In 1986, she attained a Ph.D. in lattice defects in ice crystals. She has been at the University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y. analyzing ice cores from Greenland. She returned for a Post Doctoral Fellowship followed by a permanent position at the Nagaoka Institute of Snow and Ice. In 1998 she moved to the National Institute of Polar Research, Toyko. She now has over a decade of ice-core research, including field-work on several Canadian Arctic ice caps with the Geological Survey of Canada. She has been to Mount Logan before. In 2000, she was part of a small Logan reconnaisance team, which was a forerunner to ICE2001. During this summer on Logan, she will collect snow samples from various sites for analysis of natural and anthropogenic pollutants. TETSUHIDE YAMASKI
ICE2001 needs experience on ice and snow and this is certainly brought by Tetsu. Born 1967 in the Hyogo Prefecture in Japan, Tetsu graduated from the Rakunan HS in Kyoto in 85. Since then, he has undertaken remarkable journeys, including rafting 5,000 k down Amazon from Peru to Atlantic in 87. He visited Greenland each year from 89 to 93, skiing on the huge Greenland ice sheet. In 1995, he participated in an ice-coring project out of Svalbard, Norway. In 1998, he was again in Greenland, this time learning how to handle a dog sled. He put his training to use in 2000, with a 250 km dog sled trip on NGRIP-North Greenland Ice Coring Project. Immediately after his time on Logan this summer, he will head once again to Greenland. JOCELYNE BOURGEOIS
Jocelyne, an employee of Natural Resources Canada's Geological Survey of Canada brings her experience in snow sampling for pollen analysis as well as her field experience in the high Arctic. Born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, she received her advance education at the University of Ottawa, culminating in 2000 with a Ph.D. on the study of pollen deposition on snow in the Canadian Arctic over the past 10,000 years. She actually began work in the field with the Polar Continental Shelf Project in 1982 and has been in the field virtually every year since. She was part of the aircraft-assisted Canadian-Russian expedition that crossed the Arctic (with a visit to the North Pole) in 1993. In 1994, she was in West Greenland on another scientific project. When she returns to Ottawa, she will analyze her own samples as well as the 200 metre long ice core from Prospector-Russell Col. This will be the first 10,000 year pollen record from an ice core in this part of North-Western North America. JAMES ZHENG
Born in China in 1954, James combines the practical experience and scientific knowledge needed for ICE2001. He obtained a B. Chem.in China and a Masters on the electrical conductivity of ice cores from the University of Ottawa in 1995. Now working for Natural Resources Canada's Geological Survey of Canada as a chemist, he has experience for the past eight years on collecting information on the levels of trace metals (e.g. plutonium, cesium 137) in Canada's Arctic, especially the Devon Ice Cap. He has also been twice to the Antarctic studying air/sea CO2 flux. For ICE 2001, James will be focussing on metal pollutants on Logan's glaciers. His professional interests are varied and include pollutants, climate change and clean laboratory technology.
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