Speakers

Konrad Steffen is a climatologist and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also a professor in the geography department. He has spent part of every summer in the high Arctic for the past 27 years and is responsible for much of the instrumentation that records changing conditions on the Greenland ice sheet. He has also studied conditions in the Canadian Arctic, Switzerland, and China. His research interests include climate and cryosphere interaction in polar and alpine regions, global sea level change and sensitivity studies of large ice sheets, climate system modeling, and remote sensing applications related to ocean-climate-sea ice interactions. He has also organized a NASA/National Science Foundation initiative on regional Arctic climate assessment.