IceBridge Science Team

IceBridge’s science team develops and maintains the mission’s science requirements, evaluate mission designs and support the mission in analysis and documentation. The team is further separated into two working groups — one for land ice and one for sea ice — each led by a science team co-lead.

Group photo from 2018 summer science team meeting at UC Irvine

Science Team 2017 – 2020


Land Ice Team

Eric Rignot (lead)
University of California Irvine
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ben Smith
University of Washington

Beata Csatho
SUNY Buffalo

Matt Siegfried
Colorado School of Mines

Tom Neumann (ex-officio member)
NASA Goddard

Sea Ice Team

Ron Kwok
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth
University of Washington

Thorsten Markus (ex-officio member)
NASA Goddard

 

Science Team 2014 – 2017


Land Ice Team

Eric Rignot (lead)
University of California Irvine
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ian Howat
Ohio State University

Ben Smith
University of Washington

Ian Joughin
University of Washington

Eric Larour
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lora Koenig
National Snow and Ice Data Center

Mark Fahnestock
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tom Neumann (ex-officio member)
NASA Goddard

Sea Ice Team

Jackie Richter-Menge (lead)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory

Nathan Kurtz
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center

Sinead Farrell
ESSIC, University of Maryland
NOAA
NASA Goddard

Lora Koenig
National Snow and Ice Data Center

Thorsten Markus (ex-officio member)
NASA Goddard

 

Science Team 2009 – 2013


Land Ice Team

Ken Jezek (lead)
Ohio State University

Robin Bell
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Bea Csatho
SUNY Buffalo

Scott Luthcke
NASA Goddard

Eric Larour
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ian Joughin
University of Washington

Mark Fahnestock
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Eric Rignot
University of California Irvine
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Duncan Young
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Sophie Nowicki
NASA Goddard

Sea Ice Team

Jackie Richter-Menge (lead)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory

Ron Kwok
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ron Lindsay
University of Washington

Sinead Farrell
ESSIC, University of Maryland
NOAA
NASA

Dave McAdoo
NOAA

 
Ice on Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains, 10/22/2012 Ice on the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica as seen from the IceBridge DC-8 on Oct. 22, 2012. The Ellsworth Mountains are home to Antarctica’s highest point, Vinson Massif (16,050 ft / 4,892 m). Credit: NASA / James Yungel