1. Erin Christine Pettit was born on 1971 and is an American glaciologist focusing on climate change.
14 Facts About Erin Pettit
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Erin Pettit is an associate professor of geophysics and glaciology at Oregon State University.
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Erin Pettit's work focuses on ice-ocean interactions, ice-shelf disintegration, sea-level rise and ocean circulation changes.
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Erin Pettit was faculty at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks from 2008 through 2018.
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Erin Pettit is currently an associate professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.
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Erin Pettit's research is primarily focused on glacial dynamics and exploring the interactions within the ice-ocean-earth system.
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Erin Pettit is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer who innovated applying acoustic research with hydrophones to calving and melting glaciers reaching the ocean, to examine ice shelf disintegration and the ice-ocean boundary.
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Erin Pettit's work has been recognized by numerous high-profile sources, including EARTH magazine, and National Geographic, and she was invited to present a TEDWomen talk, on her investigations focused on "listening" to glaciers.
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Erin Pettit founded Inspiring Girls Expeditions, a series of interdisciplinary wilderness science programs that teach high school girls about glaciology, oceanography, ecology, and mountaineering.
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The first program, Girls on Ice, started in Washington in 1999, with Erin Pettit taking five girls to the South Cascade Glacier.
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Erin Pettit received the UAF Teaching Award from the UAF College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics as well as a Merit Award for Research Excellence and Coordination for the Girls on Ice Program she initiated.
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Erin Pettit became a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2013.
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Erin Pettit was appointed as a US representative to the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in 2016 and as a representative for the US Department of State Brazil-US Women in Science Program.
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Erin Pettit received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Research Fellowship Grant.