She is a professor and chair in the Atmospheric Sciences Department, as well as the director of the Program on Climate Change at the University of Washington.
[1] She was featured on NPR's All Things Considered segment to speak about factors that lead to sea ice loss in 2007,[2] and testified before the United States Senate committee of Energy and Natural Resources on arctic opportunities in 2015.
[4] She completed her doctoral work in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1997,[5] where she worked with David S. Battisti to complete her dissertation on Natural Variability in the Arctic Climate using climate models.
[6] Since receiving her PhD, Cecilia Bitz has conducted research on sea ice mostly through climate modeling and has contributed to over 100 refereed publications.
[5] In 2006, she co-published research that predicted abrupt and massive ice loss in the Arctic in the summer of 2007.