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Member Since 2010
Claire L. Parkinson
Retired, NASA
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Professional Experience
NASA
Retired
2023 - Present
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Climate Change Senior Scientist
1978 - 2023
Education
Ohio State University Main Campus
Doctorate
1977
Wellesley College
Bachelors
1970
Claire's AGU Research
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A Half-Century Passive Microwave Record of Sea Ice
REMOTE SENSING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: SEA ICE II POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2022
The Earth‐Observing Aqua Satellite Mission: 20 Years and Counting
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
23 september 2022
Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic-Boreal Zone
REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS
16 january 2020
Contrasting Trends in Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Coverage Since the Late 1970s
FALL MEETING 2016
14 december 2016
Bellingshausen Sea ice extent recorded in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
03 december 2016
Spatially mapped reductions in the length of the Arctic sea ice season
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
27 june 2014
On the 2012 record low Arctic sea ice cover: Combined impact of preconditioning and an August storm
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
12 april 2013
Moisture fluxes derived from EOS aqua satellite data for the north water polynya over 2003-2009
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
31 march 2012
Volunteer Experience
2019 - 2019
Member
Global Environmental Change Fellows Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
Honors & Awards
Roger Revelle Medal
Received December 2020
Citation For significant, innovative, and sustained contributions to the understanding of the climate effect of sea ice and leadership in satellite missions. Field Photos   
Citation For significant, innovative, and sustained contributions to the understanding of the climate effect of sea ice and leadership in satellite missions. Field Photos   
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Union Fellow
Received December 2016
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For pioneering work in the modeling and remote sensing of polar sea ice and for leadership of the Earth-observing Aqua satellite mission
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