Eric Rignot

Eric Rignot

Dr. Eric Rignot
Occupation Professor, Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine
Known for principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Eric Rignot is Professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine,[1] and principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory He is a principal investigator on several NASA-funded projects to study the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheets and Antarctic ice sheets by using radar interferometry and other methods; the interactions of ice shelves with the ocean; and the dynamic retreat of Patagonian glaciers. He received the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 1998.[2] Rignot is a member of the American Geophysical Union, and the International Glaciological Society.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Eric Rignot". University of California, Irvine. http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5467. Retrieved March 10, 2009. 
  2. ^ "Science and Technology: The Lew Allen Award for Excellence Recipients". JPL. http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/community/awardsachievements/laAward/pastrecepients/. Retrieved 2010-01-26. 
  3. ^ "Meet Dr. Eric Rignot". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/sealevel_rignot_bio.html. Retrieved March 10, 2009.