Peter Neff

Peter Neff is a glaciologist and climate scientist working primarily to develop glacier ice core records of past climate, environmental conditions, and atmospheric chemistry. Neff’s current research focuses on better understanding the recent climate of changing coastal regions in West Antarctica, areas which play a large role in uncertainty for future projections of sea level rise. He 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.

Neff 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. He shares widely about ice core climate science via Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.