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
Ohio State University Main Campus
Doctorate
1977
Wellesley College
Bachelors
1970
Honors & Awards
Roger Revelle Medal
Received December 2020
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For significant, innovative, and sustained contributions to the understanding of the climate effect of sea ice and leadership in satellite missions.
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For significant, innovative, and sustained contributions to the understanding of the climate effect of sea ice and leadership in satellite missions.
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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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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
Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Ar...
January 16, 2020
Bellingshausen Sea ice extent recorded in an Antarctic Penin...
December 03, 2016
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 Experience
2019 - 2019
Member
Global Environmental Change Fellows Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
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