Isabella Velicogna is a geoscientist known for her work using gravity measurements from space to study changes in the polar ice sheets and water storage on Earth.
Velicogna started an appointment at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2006.
[1] Velicogna was one of the contributing authors to "Observations: Cryosphere" in the 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5 WG1 Ch4 2013).
[2] In 2020, she was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for groundbreaking research to document and explain the evolution of ice sheets and groundwater resources using gravity remote sensing technologies."
[9] Velicogna has also applied time series of gravity data to changes in groundwater storage in different geographic locales including India,[10] Texas,[11] and the Canadian Arctic.