Eric Steig
Eric Steig
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- Adjunct Professor, Atmospheric and Climate Science
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Eric Steig is Ben Rabinowitz Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and served as Department Chair from 2020 to 2024. He is also Adjunct Professor in Atmospheric and Climate Science and member of the Quaternary Research Center, which he directed from 2008 to 2013.
Eric’s research focuses on climate, glaciers, and ice sheets, using a combination of isotope geochemistry and climate modeling. His primary observational tool is ice obtained by drilling cores into the ice sheet, which are brought back to the lab and analyzed. His primary analytical tools are isotope-ratio mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy, often using instruments and methods he and his laboratory staff and students have pioneered. Most of the analytical work takes place in his isotope geochemistry laboratory, IsoLab, which he co-founded with ESS colleague Roger Buick in 2001. He is also involved in ice-sheet and climate modeling, and paleoclimate data assimilation methods, through numerous collaborations.
Eric is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2024.