Office: SC 275A
Phone: (614) 292-6641
E-mail: howat.4@osu.edu
Division: Water, Climate, and the Environment
Web: www.bprc.osu.edu/~ihowat

Ian Howat is a glaciologist focused on the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets, and particularly their rapid response to climate forcing. He uses a wide range of observations from remote sensing, in situ data networks and field campaigns to constrain quantitative models of ice flow. These models are used to predict future changes in ice sheet mass balance and rates of sea level rise. Howat has been a participant and leader on numerous science expeditions to Antarctica, Iceland and Greenland. He receives funding through NASA, the National Science Foundation and OSU's Climate Water Carbon program. He has authored papers in high-impact journals such as Science and Geophysical Research Letters and he has been featured in numerous media outlets including NOVA , New Scientist, The Weather Channel, Backcountry Magazine, NPR and the New York Times. In 2007, Howat received the Cryosphere Young Investigator Award from the American Geophysical Union.