Kirsteen Jane Tinto is a glaciologist known for her research on the behavior and subglacial geology of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
[2][3] Her thesis is "A geophysical investigation of the Marshall Paraconformity in South Canterbury, New Zealand[4]" with academic advisors Andrew R Gorman[5] and Gary S Wilson.
[6] Tinto works at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, NY as an Associate Research Professor, Marine Geology and Geophysics.
[7][8] She is a member of the university's polar geophysics group that maps and analyses ice sheets to understand global processes and develop mathematical models.
[13] Her research has led to new understandings of the behavior of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland and how these polar regions interact with the global climate system.