Peter Neff

Assistant Research Professor
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[email protected]
612-624-5128
S335 Soil Science Building
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Education
  • BS, University of Washington, 2009
  • MS, University of Washington, 2012
  • PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, 2015

Areas of Interest

Ice Core Paleoclimatology, Glaciology, Climate Science, West Antarctic Climate, Science Communication

Research

Peter is a glaciologist and climate scientist working primarily to develop glacier ice core records of past climate, environmental conditions, and atmospheric chemistry. Peter’s current research focuses on better understanding recent climate of changing coastal regions in West Antarctica, areas which play a large role in uncertainty for future projections of sea level rise. Peter is also working to capture the last 200-500 years of hydroclimate variability in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, through recovering and developing the southernmost annually-resolved ice core record in North America, from Mount Waddington in the Coast Mountains. Peter is also the Director of Field Research and Data for the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center that seeks to find the oldest possible ice core records of past climate preserved in Antarctica. Peter shares widely about ice core climate science via Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.

Select Publications

  • Neff, P (2020). Amundsen Sea coastal ice rises: Future sites for marine-focused ice core records. Oceanography 33-2, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2020.215.
  • Winstrup, M, Vallelonga, P, Kjær, HA, Fudge, TJ, Lee, JE, Riis, MH, Edwards, R, Bertler, NAN, Blunier, T, Brook, EJ, Buizert, C, Ciobanu, G, Conway, H, Dahl-Jensen, D, Ellis, A, Emanuelsson, BD, Keller, ED, Kurbatov, A, Mayewski, P, Neff, PD, Pyne, R, Simonsen, MF, Svensson, A, Tuohy, A, Waddington, E and Wheatley, S (2019). A 2700-year annual timescale and accumulation history for an ice core from Roosevelt Island, West Antarctica. Climate of the Past, doi: 10.5194/cp-2017-101
  • Steig, EJ, and Neff, PD (2018). The prescience of paleoclimatology and the future of the Antarctic ice sheet. Nature Communications, 9, Article 2730, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05001-1
  • Emanuelsson, BD, Bertler, NAN, Neff, PD, Renwick, JA, Markle, BR, Baisden, WT, and Keller, ED (2018). The role of Amundsen-Bellingshausen Sea anticyclonic circulation in forcing marine air intrusions into West Antarctica. Climate Dynamics, 51(9-10), 3579-3596, doi: 10.1007/s00382-018-4097-3
  • RICE Community Members (incl. PD Neff) (2018). The Ross Sea Dipole - Temperature, Snow Accumulation and Sea Ice Variability in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica, over the Past 2,700 Years. Climate of the Past, 14(2), 193-214, doi: 10.5194/cp-14-193-2018
  • Winton, VHL, Edwards, R, Delmonte, B, Ellis, A, Andersson, PS, Bowie, A, Bertler, NAN, Neff, PD and Tuohy, A (2016). Multiple sources of soluble atmospheric iron to Antarctic waters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(3), 421-437, doi:10.1002/2015GB005265
  • Tuohy, A, Bertler, N, Neff, PD, Edwards, R, Emanuelsson, D, Beers, T and Mayewski P (2015). Transport and deposition of heavy metals in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120(20), 10996-11011, doi: 10.1002/2015JD023293
  • Neff, PD and Bertler, NAN (2015). Trajectory modeling of modern dust flux to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120(18), 9303-9322, doi: 10.1002/2015JD023304 WAIS Divide Project Members (incl. PD Neff) (2015). Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age. Nature, 520, 661-665, doi: 10.1038/nature14401
  • Neff, PD (2014). A review of the brittle ice zone in polar ice cores. Annals of Glaciology, 55(68), 72-82, doi: 10.3189/2014AoG68A023 Souney, JM, Twickler, MS, Hargreaves, GM, Bencivengo, B, Kippenhan, M, Johnson, JA, Cravens, E, Neff, PD, Nunn, R, Orsi, AJ, Popp, TJ, Rhoades, J, Vaughn, BH, Voigt, DE, Wong, GJ and Taylor KC (2014). Core handling and processing for the WAIS Divide ice-core project. Annals of Glaciology, 55(68), 15-26, doi: 10.3189/2014AoG68A008
  • WAIS Divide Project Members (incl. PD Neff) (2013). Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing. Nature, 500, 440-444, doi: 10.1038/nature12376
  • Steig, EJ, Ding, Q, White, JWC, Küttel, M, Rupper, SB, Neumann, TA, Neff, PD, Gallant, AJE, Mayewski, PA, Taylor, KC, Hoffmann, G, Dixon, DA, Schoenemann, SW, Markle, BR, Fudge, TJ, Schneider, DP, Schauer, AJ, Teel, RP, Vaughn, BH, Burgener, L, Williams, J and Korotkikh, E (2013). Recent climate and ice-sheet changes in West Antarctica compared with the past 2,000 years. Nature Geoscience, 6(5), 372-375, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1778
  • Neff, PD, Steig, EJ, Clark, DH, McConnell, JR, Pettit, EC and Menounos, B (2012). Ice-core net snow accumulation and seasonal snow chemistry at a temperate-glacier site: Mount Waddington, southwest British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Glaciology, 58(212), 1165-1175, doi: 10.3189/2012JoG12J078