Alternate phone: 206-619-1752

Website: ICE: exploring, learning, teaching

Specialty

Glacier and ice sheet dynamics including ice-shelf stability; ice/ocean interactions; ice rheology and deformation; ice-core climate history; water percolation in firn; fracture and deformation of cold ice; englacial and subglacial water movement; connections between Earth-ice processes and planetary ice; and applied geophysical methods in ice (seismics, acoustics, borehole logging, radar, etc).

Using field-research experiences as a mechanism to build confidence in and inspire underprivileged young women to explore science as a career; teaching climate science in the field.

Education

ScB, Brown University (Mechanical Engineering), 1994
PhD, University of Washington (Glaciology/Geophysics), 2003

Other Information

Director of Inspiring Girls Expeditions

Alternate email: ecpettit@alaska.edu

Websites: ICE: exploring, learning, teaching, Inspiring Girls* Expeditions

Feature Stories

Out of this world (November, 2020)
Erin Pettit: Tracking glaciers on the move (March, 2019)