RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Matthew Druckenmiller is a research scientist at NSIDC. Since 2006, he has worked within the coastal regions of Arctic Alaska, investigating the connections between changing sea ice conditions and marine mammal habitat, and local Indigenous community use of sea ice for hunting and travel. Currently, he serves as director of the Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) and co-leads the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA).

Mark Seefeldt is a research scientist at NSIDC with a focus on meteorology and climatology of the Antarctic and Arctic. His Antarctic work generally focuses on observational studies, including working with automatic weather stations, unmanned aircraft systems, and precipitation measurement systems. Seefeldt has worked eight field seasons in Antarctica. His Arctic research focuses on efforts with numerical modeling of the atmosphere using fully coupled Earth system models and standalone atmosphere models.

Walt Meier is a senior research scientist at NSIDC. His primary role is supporting the NASA Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) at NSIDC as the DAAC scientist. In this role he provides scientific support to all NASA products at the NSIDC DAAC. His research focus is on sea ice remote sensing, particularly using passive microwave data, and tracking Arctic climate change.