ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Alek Petty was recently appointed by the International Arctic Science Committee’s Cryosphere Working Group as an Early Career Fellow.
The three-year appointment will allow Petty to expand on his research in polar science, while engaging in leading-edge scientific activities at a circumarctic and international level.
Petty, who studies the changing dynamics of the Arctic sea ice pack, was officially inducted as a fellow at the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Fairbanks, Alaska, held from March 12-20 March 2016.