Eric Steig is a Canadian-American scientist specializing in polar climate, glaciology, isotope geochemistry, and ice core science.
Steig served as Chair of the University of Washington's Department of Earth and Space Sciences from 2020 to 2024[2] and Director of the Quaternary Research Center from 2008 to 2014.
[3] He has published more than 175 peer-reviewed scientific papers on topics including ice-core analysis, polar climate variability, and ice-sheet history.
[4] He is best known for his work on climate change in Antarctica and its influence on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet, and for research in the British Columbia Coast Range mountains.
[11][12] In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union "for numerous fundamental contributions in ice core, paleoclimate, and climate dynamics research".