CP
Member Since 2010
Claire L. Parkinson
Retired, NASA
Professional Experience
NASA
Retired
2023 - Present
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Climate Change Senior Scientist
1978 - 2023
Education
The Ohio State University
Doctorate
1977
Wellesley College
Bachelors
1970
Honors & Awards
Roger Revelle Medal
Received 2020
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Union Fellow
Received 2016
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Publications
The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting

The Earth‐observing Aqua spacecraft was launched on 4 May 2002 and has now completed 20 years of collecting and transmitting data regard...

September 23, 2022
AGU Abstracts
A Half-Century Passive Microwave Record of Sea Ice
REMOTE SENSING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: SEA ICE II POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2022
Walt Meier, Claire L. Parkinson
December 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) on NASAs Nimbus-5 satellite. ESMR, a s...
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Contrasting Trends in Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Coverage Since the Late 1970s
FALL MEETING 2016
14 december 2016
Claire L. Parkinson
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Volunteer History
2019 - 2019
Member
Global Environmental Change Fellows Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
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