Alek Petty

OrganizationEmailPhoneGreenbelt , District of Columbia 20771United StatesBioDr. Petty is a postdoc at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland - specializing in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice variability. He is a member of NASA's Operation IceBridge project science office.

Interests

Sea Ice

Current Research

Dr. Petty's research interests include: Arctic/Antarctic sea ice, atmosphere-ice-ocean interaction, extreme Arctic weather events, polar oceanography, and sea ice predictability. His work primarily involves statistical/geospatial analysis of satellite, airborne and in-situ sea ice observations. Dr. Petty has also developed idealized sea ice models and adapted/analyzed more sophisticated climate models.