Eric Steig
  Professor
  Office: JHN-351
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-685-3715, 543-6327
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: steig @ u.washington.edu
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  Research Groups: Isotope Geochemistry, Glaciology, Climate and Paleoclimate, Cosmogenic/Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Quaternary Research

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Group web site: ISOLAB

Personal web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/steig

Selected Publications:

Steig EJ, Gkinis V, Schauer AJ, Schoenemann SW, Samek K, Hoffnagle J, Dennis K, Tan Z. Calibrated 17Oexcess measurements using laser-current tuned cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, in review.

WAIS Divide Project Members (TJ Fudge, Eric Steig, et al.). Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing. Nature 500, 440-444 (2013).

Steig EJ, Ding Q, Battisti DS, Jenkins A. Tropical forcing of circumpolar deep water inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology 53: 19-28 (2012).

Schoenemann SW, Schauer AJ, Steig EJ. Measurement of SLAP2 and GISP δ17O and proposed VSMOW-SLAP normalization for δ17O and 17Oexcess. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometery, in press (2012).

Ding Q, Steig EJ, Battisti DS, Küttell M. Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming. Nature Geoscience, 4: 398 403 (2011).

Steig EJ, Schneider DP, Rutherford SD, Mann ME, Comiso JC, Shindell DT. Warming of the Antarctic ice sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. Nature 457, 459-462 (2009).

Hastings MG, Jarvis JC, Steig EJ. Anthropogenic impacts on nitrogen isotopes of ice-core nitrate. Science 324: 1288 (2009).

Steig EJ, Ding Q, White JWC, Kuettel M, Rupper SB, Neumann TA, Neff P, Gallant A, Mayewski PA, Taylor K, Hoffmann G, Dixon DA, Schoenemann S, Markle B, Schneider DP, Fudget TJ, Schauer AJ, Teel RP, Vaughn B, Burgener L, WIlliams J, Korotkikh E.  Recent climate and ice sheet changes in West Antarctica compared to the past 2000 years, Nature Geoscience 6:372-375 (2013).