• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

RealClimate

Climate science from climate scientists...

  • Start here
  • Model-Observation Comparisons
  • Miscellaneous Climate Graphics
  • Surface temperature graphics
You are here: Home / Extras / Contributor Bio's / Eric Steig

Eric Steig

6 Dec 2004 by eric

Eric Steig is an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle. His primary research interest is use of ice core records to document climate variability in the past. He also works on the geological history of ice sheets, on ice sheet dynamics, on statistical climate analysis, and on atmospheric chemistry.

He received a BA from Hampshire College at Amherst, MA, and M.S. and PhDs in Geological Sciences at the University of Washington, and was a DOE Global Change Graduate fellow. He was on the research faculty at the University of Colorado and taught at the University of Pennsylvania prior to returning to the University of Washington 2001. He has served on the national steering committees for the Ice Core Working Group, the Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences initiative, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative, all sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. He was a senior editor of the journal Quaternary Research, and director of the Quaternary Research Center. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in international journals.

More information about his research and publication record can be found here.

All posts by eric.

Filed Under: Contributor Bio's

Primary Sidebar

Search

Search for:

Email Notification

get new posts sent to you automatically (free)
Loading

Recent Posts

  • Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • This new El Niño is different
  • Unforced Variations: July 2026
  • Unforced Variations: June 2026
  • “The Arctic Council is not dead”
  • Scenarios, schmenarios…

Our Books

Book covers
This list of books since 2005 (in reverse chronological order) that we have been involved in, accompanied by the publisher’s official description, and some comments of independent reviewers of the work.
All Books >>

Recent Comments

  • E. Schaffer on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • JCM on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Dean Rovang on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • E. Schaffer on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • E. Schaffer on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Barton Paul Levenson on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • E. Schaffer on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Paul Pukite (@whut) on This new El Niño is different
  • John Pollack on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • John Pollack on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • E. Schaffer on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Kobayashi Maru on This new El Niño is different
  • Nigelj on This new El Niño is different
  • MA Rodger on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Barton Paul Levenson on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Barton Paul Levenson on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Barton Paul Levenson on This new El Niño is different
  • MA Rodger on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • MA Rodger on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Paul Pukite (@whut) on This new El Niño is different
  • Martin Smith on This new El Niño is different
  • Nabil Swedan on This new El Niño is different
  • Kobayashi Maru on This new El Niño is different
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Piotr on This new El Niño is different
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Aug 2026
  • Paul Pukite (@whut) on This new El Niño is different

Footer

ABOUT

  • About
  • Translations
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Page
  • Login

DATA AND GRAPHICS

  • Data Sources
  • Model-Observation Comparisons
  • Surface temperature graphics
  • Miscellaneous Climate Graphics

INDEX

  • Acronym index
  • Index
  • Archives
  • Contributors

Realclimate Stats

1,411 posts

15 pages

252,346 comments

Copyright © 2026 · RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.