NASA climate scientist Claire Parkinson uses satellite data to study changes in polar sea ice and their connection to broader climate change. Dr. Parkinson is project scientist for the Aqua satellite mission, which is collecting data about the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, land, ice, and vegetation. She has also developed a computer model of sea ice, done fieldwork in both the Arctic and Antarctic, and is the lead author of several books and a co-author of others, as well as having published approximately 100 refereed science articles.