 Isabella Velicogna (PI) Professor Department of Earth System Science 3226 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-3100 Phone: (949) 824-5419 Fax: (949) 824-3874 Email: isabella@uci.eduProfessor Isabella Velicogna is a geophysicist, Professor of Earth System Science at the University of California Irvine, and Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her research focuses on the effect of climate change on the ice mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets and their impact on sea level rise, and on the effect of climate change on land surface and ground-water hydrology and its impact on water resources and human systems. She has expertise in satellite time-variable gravity (GRACE), altimetry (ICESat/2), passive microwave, in-situ data, and Earth system models. She is a leader in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She is a Geosciences Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers (2014-2020), a Fellow of AAAS, American Geophysical Union, and American Meteorological Society, and a Kavli Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She received the AGU’s Joanne Simpson Medal for Earth and Space Science contributions, the European Geosciences Union’s Vening Meinesz Medal for Geodesy Distinguished Research, and a NASA Award for outstanding scientific achievement. |
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