Ignatius G. Rigor - Curriculum Vitae (Updated November 10, 2008)
Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory Phone: (206) 685-2571
University of Washington Fax: (206) 616-3142
1013 NE 40th, Seattle, WA 98105 Email: ignatius@apl.washington.edu
Web Page: seaice.apl.washington.edu
Work Experience
Mathematician / Research Scientist, 1986 – present.
Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington, Seattle Washington
Education
Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2005
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Dissertation: Interdecadal Variations in Arctic Sea Ice
Advisor: John M. Wallace
M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2001
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Thesis: On the Response of Sea Ice to the Arctic Oscillation
Advisor: John M. Wallace
B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, 1986
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Professional Activities
Outreach
· Press Interviews and News (selected):
o Stiffler, Lisa: North Pole ever closer to having no ice. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 16, 2008.
o Renee Schoff: Low levels or Arctic sea ice signals global warming’s advance. McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 9, 2008.
o Peter Spotts: Shrinking Arctic Ocean sea ice signals climate change. Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 4, 2008.
o Revkin, Andy: Fire Under North Pole Ice - More Views. Dot Earth Blog, New York Times, July 3, 2008.
o Secretary Kempthorne: Press Conference On Polar Bear Listing. May 14, 2008.
o Revkin, Andy: The (Annotated) Polar Bear Decision. Dot Earth Blog, New York Times, May 14, 2008.
o Revkin, Andy: Forecast: More Shrinking North Pole Ice. Dot Earth Blog, New York Times, May 7, 2008.
o Editorial: Warming to the truth. Las Vegas Sun, March 4, 2008.
o Revkin, Andy: Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell. New York Times, March 2, 2008.
o Arnold, Elizabeth: How Serious is Climate Change in Alaska?, National Public Radio, Feb. 14, 2008.
o Kizzia, Tom: Polar ice may break 2007 record, Anchorage Daily News, Feb. 12, 2008.
o Tracy, John: The front lines of climate change, KTUU 2 News (NBC Anchorage), Feb. 11, 2008.
o Kerr, Richard: Climate Change: Is Battered Arctic Sea Ice Down For the Count? Science, October 5, 2007.
o Revkin, Andy: Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts. New York Times, October 1, 2007.
o Chasan, Dan: The new hot spot in the environmental protection war is the Arctic. Crosscut News, October 1, 2007.
o Glenn Farley, Polarbears Losing Their Habitat, KING 5 News, September 7, 2007.
o Revkin, Andy: Analysts See 'Simply Incredible' Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic. New York Times, August 10, 2007.
o Miller, Bill: Misquoted scientists cry foul over polar bear editorial. DeSmogBlog.com, January 3, 2007. (Follow up on misquote in an editorial in The Vancouver Province.)
o The Vancouver Province, Editorial: New polar-bear scare is a classic case of blinkered thinking. December 29, 2006. (This was a misquote which the Miller, 2007 article above followed up.)
o Erickson, Jim: Scientists: Arctic sea ice tells of warming. Rocky Mountain News, September 14, 2006.
o O’Hanlon, Larry: Arctic Ice Melt Close to Record Low. Discovery News, September 6, 2006.
o Erickson, Jim: Team’s ice work heats up. Rocky Mountain News, September 5, 2006.
o NSIDC News: Arctic Sea Ice News 2006, http://nsidc.org/news/press/2006_seaiceminimum/20060816_arcticseaicenews.html, 2006.
o Talbott, Chris: Arctic ice pack losing ground. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. April 10, 2006
o Revkin, Andy: In a Melting Trend, Less Arctic Ice to Go Around. New York Times, September 29, 2005.
o Revkin, Andy: Arctic Ice Cap Shrank This Summer, Experts Say. New York Times, September 28, 2005.
o Kerr, Richard A., Scary Arctic Ice Loss? Blame the Wind, SCIENCE Magazine, v. 307, 5707, 203a, 2005.
o Cowen, Robert C.: In metling Arctic, warming is now. Christian Science Monitor, January 6, 2005.
o Winds, Ice Motion Root Cause Of Decline In Sea Ice, Not Warmer Temperatures. Science Daily, December 29, 2004.
o Holland, J.S., Breaking the Ice, v. 205, iss. 1, p 100–111, National Geographic, 2004. [Article] [Map of Arctic Forecast]
· Invited Outreach Presentations (recent, selected):
o Burke Museum: A Cold One at the Burke, July 2008.
o Alaska Forum on the Environment: Climate Change – Key Developments in the Arctic, February 2008. This presentation resulted in press interviews with the Anchorage Daily News, National Public Radio, and NBC.
o Focus the Nation: Science at the Cutting Edge Panel, January 2008.
o European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) and International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Summer School on Paleoceanography and Topical Symposium on North Atlantic and Arctic Climate Variability, August 2007.
o Instructor for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP, http://depts.washington.edu/gearup/), Summer 2007.
o Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA), Global Warming Panel, December 2006.
· Mentors students for the Alliance for Learning and Vision for Underrepresented Americans (ALVA) program at the UW, which provides an intensive work-study summer experience for incoming freshmen typically conducted at a high tech firm or university research facility.
· Gives presentations on weather, Arctic and global climate to K-12 students, boy scouts, etc.
· Hosts tours of the Department of Atmospheric Science and the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington for K-12 students.
· Wrote and administered the “weather” exam for the Washington State Science Olympiad 2002.
· Outreach Coordinator for the UW Department of Atmospheric Science from 1999 – 2000.
Publications
Hutchings, J.K, and I.G. Rigor, Mechanisms explaining the anomalous ice conditions in the Beaufort Sea during 2006 and 2007, J. Geophys. Res., submitted 2008.
Ogi, M., I.G. Rigor, M.G. McPhee, J.M. Wallace, Role of Wind-induced Ekman Drift in the Summer Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted, 2008.
Rigor, I.G. S. V. Nghiem, P. Clemente-Colón, D. K. Perovich, J. Richter-Menge, G. Neumann, and M. Ortmeyer, Retreat of Arctic perennial sea ice: The North Pole on thin ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted, 2008.
Haas, C., A. Pfaffling, S. Hendriks, L. Rabenstein, J.-L. Etienne, and I. Rigor, Reduced ice thickness in Arctic Transpolar Drift favors rapid ice retreat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17501, doi:10.1029/2008GL034457, 2008.
Nghiem, S.V., I.G. Rigor, P. Clemente-Colón, D. K. Perovich, and G. Neumann, New record reduction of Arctic perennial sea ice in winter 2008, Jet Propul. Lab. Doc. D-44233, Pasadena, Calif., 2008.
Nghiem, S.V., I.G.Rigor, D.K. Perovich, P. Clemente-Colón, J. Richter-Menge, J. W. Weatherly, and G. Neumann, Rapid reduction of Arctic perennial sea ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., iv. 24, L19504, doi:10.1029/2007GL031128, 2007. [Citations: 8]
Alkire, M.B, K.K. Falkner, I. Rigor, M. Steele, and , J. Morison, The return of Pacific waters to the upper layers of the central Arctic Ocean, Deep Sea Research, v. 54, pp. 1509 – 1529, 2007.
Sasaki, Y.N. Y. Katagiri, S. Minobe, and I.G. Rigor, Autumn atmospheric preconditioning for interannual variability of wintertime sea-ice in the Okhotsk Sea, J. Oceanography, v. 63, n. 2, pp. 255-265, 2007.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I, Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC - Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. (Rigor, I.G. is a Contributing Author).
Richter-Menge, J., J. Overland, A. Proshutinsky, V. Romanovsky, L. Bengtsson, L. Brigham, M. Dyurgerov, J.C. Gascard, S. Gerland, R. Graversen, C. Haas, M. Karcher, P. Kuhry, J. Maslanik, H. Melling, W. Maslowski, J. Morison, D. Perovich, R. Przybylak, V. Rachold, I.G. Rigor, A. Shiklomanov, J. Stroeve, D. Walker, and J. Walsh, State of the Arctic. NOAA OAR Special Report, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA, 2006, 36 pp.
Richter-Menge, J.A., and many other including I.G. Rigor, State of the Arctic. FY 2005 NOAA Annual Report: The State of the Ocean and the Ocean Observing System For Climate, ed. Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA Office of Climate Observation, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. USA, 2006.
Richter-Menge, J.A., D.K. Perovich, B.C. Elder, K. Claffey, I.Rigor, M. Ortmeyer, Ice Mass Balance Buoys: A tool for measuring and attributing changes in the thickness of Arctic sea ice cover, Annals of Glaciology, v. 44, 2006.
Serreze, M.C. and I.G. Rigor, The cryosphere and climate change: perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea ice cover., Glacier Science and Environmental Change, _ed. P. Knight, Blackwell Publishing, Ltd, Oxford, August 2006.
Eicken, H., R. Gradinger, A. Graves, A. Mahoney, I. Rigor, & H. Melling, Sediment transport by sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas: Increasing importance due to changing ice conditions?, Deep Sea Research, 2005. [Citations: 6]
Rigor, I.G., J. Richter-Menge, C. Lee, Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean Observations, Arctic Research of the United States, v. 19, 2005.
Rigor, I.G., Interdecadal Variations in Arctic Sea Ice, Ph. D. Dissertation, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, pp. 100, 2005.
Rigor, I.G., and Jackie Richter-Menge, Sea Ice Extent and Thickness. FY 2004 NOAA Annual Report: The State of the Ocean and the Ocean Observing System For Climate, ed. Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA Office of Climate Observation, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. USA, pp. 67-74, 2005.
Pfirman, S., W.F. Haxby, R. Colony, and I. Rigor, Variability in Arctic Sea Ice Drift, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL020063, 2004. [Citations: 4]
Rigor, I.G. and J.M. Wallace, Variations in the Age of Sea Ice and Summer Sea Ice Extent, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL019492, 2004. [Citations: 55]
Rigor, I.G., Arctic Meteorological Stations, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Routledge, New York, 2004.
Rigor, I.G., Laptev Sea, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Routledge, New York, 2004.
Rigor, I.G., Sea Ice, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Routledge, New York, 2004.
Steele, M.A., J. Morison, W. Ermold, I.G. Rigor, M. Ortmeyer, and K. Shimada, The Circulation of Summer Pacific Halocline Water in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., v. 109, c02027 doi:10.1029/2003JC002009, 2004. [Citations: 24]
Rigor, I.G., J.M. Wallace, and R.L. Colony, Response of Sea Ice to the Arctic Oscillation, J. Climate, v. 15, no. 18, pp. 2648 - 2668, 2002. [Citations: 139]
Bacon, S., G. Reverdin, I.G. Rigor, and H. M. Snaith, A Freshwater Jet on the East Greenland Shelf, J. Geophys. Res., v. 107, no. C7, 2002. [Citations: 11]
Rigor, I.G., R.L. Colony, and S. Martin, Variations in Surface Air Temperature in the Arctic from 1979-1997, J. Climate, v. 13, no. 5, pp. 896 - 914, 2000. [Citations: 132]
Jones, P.D., M. New, D.E. Parker, S. Martin, and I.G. Rigor , Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years, Rev. Geophys. Vol. 37 , No. 2 , p. 173 - 200, 1999. [Citations: 424]
Warren, S.G., I.G. Rigor, N. Untersteiner, V. F. Radionov, N. N. Bryazgin, Y. I. Aleksandrov, and R. Colony, Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice, J. Climate, v. 12, no. 6, pp. 1814–1829, 1999. [Citations: 34]
Landa, E., E. Reimnitz, D. Beals, J. Pochkowski, and I.G. Rigor, Transport of 137Cs and 239,240Pu by Ice Rafted Debris in the Arctic Ocean, Arctic, v. 51, no. 1, pp. 27-39, 1998. [Citations: 26]
Rigor, I.G., and R. Colony, Sea Ice Production in the Laptev Sea, Sci. Total Environ., vol. 202, pp. 89-110, 1997. [Citations: 22]
Pfirman, S.L, J.W. K_geler, and I.G. Rigor, Potential Shortcuts for Transport of Contaminants from the Kara Sea, Sci.Total Environ., vol. 202, pp. 111-122, 1997. [Citations: 16]
Pfirman, S.L., R. Colony, D. N_rnberg, H. Eicken, and I.G. Rigor, Reconstructing the Origin and Trajectory of Drifting Arctic Sea Ice, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102 no.6 pp. 12575-12586, 1997. [Citations: 60]
Pfirman, S.L., R. Colony, D. N_rnberg, H. Eicken, and I.G. Rigor, Correction to “Reconstructing the Origin and Trajectory of Drifting Arctic Sea Ice,” J. Geophys. Res., vol. 102 no.c10, p. 23239, 1997.
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