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Awarded to Eric Rignot for fundamental innovations in the remote sensing of glacier flow, leading to the first assessments of the mass balance of the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland.

2017 Louis Agassiz Medal

NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher

2007 Nobel Peace Prize (Contributing Author)

NASA

Ice flow modelling to constrain the surface mass balance and ice discharge of San Rafael Glacier, Northern Patagonia Icefield

Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017

Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project

Dr. Rignot works to understand the interactions of ice and climate, in particular to determine how the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will respond to climate change in the coming century and how they will affect global sea level.

He uses satellite remote sensing techniques (imaging radar, laser altimetry, radio echo sounding), airborne geophysical surveys (icebridge), field surveys (radar, GPS, bathymetry, CTD), and numerical modeling (ice sheet motion, ocean circulation near glaciers, coupled ocean/ice sheet models).

In addition, he is an expert in how ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will respond to climate change, interactions of ice and climate, global sea level, satellite remote sensing and ocean circulation.

Ice Sheet Dynamics and Mass Balance

Climate Change

Glaciology

Radar

Rignot Research Group

Ph.D. Defense At Antarctica Marks Historic Milestone For Climate Research

Pyramid hidden for millennia discovered in Antarctica

Glaciers under close surveillance

Why Greenland? Remote but resource-rich island occupies a key position in a warming world

Doomsday Glacier may collapse sooner than we thought

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Earth System Science

Glaciologist Eric Rignot interviewed by John Cook at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2014.

The AGU Interviews: Eric Rignot, Part One

Ice Sheet Systems and Sea Level Rise: Prof Eric Rignot

An expedition to Greenland with UC Irvine glaciologists Eric Rignot and Isabella Velicogna reveals ‘time bomb’ effects of global warming.

More: http://communications.uci.edu/magazine/ 
Digital version: http://news.uci.edu/spring-2015/ 
Greenland: http://news.uci.edu/greenland/ 

Video footage by Maria Stenzel. Edited by Jeff Hing and Steve Zylius, UC Irvine Communications.

Measuring Earth's Meltdown in Greenland - UC Irvine

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