2026 Eric J. Steig: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	86	357	307	187	156	348	30191

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eric J. Steig is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and is an active researcher in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial focus on Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to climate and environmental studies. Major topics include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Climate variability and models, Landslides and related hazards, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Steig has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geophysical Research Letters, Climate of the Past, Nature, and the Journal of Climate.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Steig's work:

"Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, Science
"Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss," 2020, Nature Climate Change
"Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century," 2020, Nature
"A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators with Steig include T. J. Fudge, Gregory J. Hakim, Gemma K. O'Connor, Emma C. Kahle, and Andrew J. Schauer, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts.

Among professional recognition, Steig was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

Holocene climate variability

Paul A. Mayewski;Eelco E. Rohling;J. Curt Stager;Wibjörn Karlén

3036
Citations
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

1077
Citations
Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180°W)

D. S. Kaufman;T.A. Ager;N.J. Anderson;P.M. Anderson

1008
Citations
Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year

Eric J. Steig;David P. Schneider;Scott D. Rutherford;Michael E. Mann

932
Citations
Strong Sensitivity of Pine Island Ice-Shelf Melting to Climatic Variability

Pierre Dutrieux;Jan De Rydt;Adrian Jenkins;Paul R. Holland

634
Citations
Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation

Shaun A. Marcott;Thomas K. Bauska;Christo Buizert;Eric J. Steig

575
Citations
Dynamics of Recent Climate Change in the Arctic

Richard E. Moritz;Cecilia M. Bitz;Eric J. Steig

563
Citations
The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

560
Citations
ESTIMATING RATES OF DENUDATION USING COSMOGENIC ISOTOPE ABUNDANCES IN SEDIMENT

Paul Bierman;Eric J. Steig

560
Citations
A Review of Antarctic Surface Snow Isotopic Composition : Observations, Atmospheric Circulation, and Isotopic Modeling

V. Masson-Delmotte;S. Hou;A. Ekaykin;J. Jouzel

475
Citations
Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

Qinghua Ding;Eric J. Steig;David S. Battisti;Marcel Küttel

474
Citations
A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

443
Citations
Evidence for substantial accumulation rate variability in Antarctica during the Holocene, through synchronization of CO 2 in the Taylor Dome, Dome C and DML ice cores

Eric Monnin;Eric J. Steig;Urs Siegenthaler;Kenji Kawamura

443
Citations
Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice

Qinghua Ding;Qinghua Ding;Axel Schweiger;Michelle L’Heureux;David S. Battisti

421
Citations
Holocene Climate Variability in Antarctica Based on 11 Ice-Core Isotopic Records

Valérie Masson;Françoise Vimeux;Jean Jouzel;Vin Morgan

421
Citations
Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

416
Citations
Tropical forcing of the recent rapid Arctic warming in northeastern Canada and Greenland

Qinghua Ding;John Michael Wallace;David S Battisti;Eric J Steig

415
Citations
Synchronous climate changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic

E. J. Steig;E. J. Brook;J. W. C. White;C. M. Sucher

403
Citations
Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

381
Citations
On the origin and timing of rapid changes in atmospheric methane during the Last Glacial Period

Edward J. Brook;Susan Harder;Jeff Severinghaus;Eric J. Steig

374
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder

Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute

Christo Buizert Oregon State University

Gregory J. Hakim University of Washington

Qinghua Ding University of California, Santa Barbara

Edward J. Brook Oregon State University

Kurt M. Cuffey University of California, Berkeley

Edwin D. Waddington University of Washington

Howard Conway University of Washington

Kendrick C. Taylor Desert Research Institute

External Links

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