Ian Clark holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a doctorate in Earth Sciences from the Université de Paris-Sud. Dr. Clark is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He conducts research on past climates and environmental change in the Arctic. His current programs involve field work with students in the Yukon Territory and on the Mars environment analogue site on Devon Island in Nunavut, which is supported by the Canadian Space Agency. Dr. Clark teaches courses on Quaternary Geology and Climate Change and on Groundwater Geochemistry. Further, he is director of the G.G. Hatch Isotope Laboratory, an internationally renowned facility supporting research in Earth and environmental science.