- The role of sea ice in the climate system and high-latitude climate and climate change.
- The predictability of Arctic sea ice. I co-lead the Sea Ice Prediction Network.
- Global coupled climate modeling. Including integrations at very high resolution.
- ATMOS 340 Thermodynamics and Clouds
- ATMOS 441 & 442 Atmospheric Motions I & II
- ATMOS 559 Climate Modeling
- AGU Jacob Bjerknes Lecture
- American Geophysical Society Fellow 2018
- Alfred Wegener Lecture in Climate Science, March 2017
- Washington State Academy of Sciences, elected member 2015
- American Meteorological Society Fellow 2015
- Highly Cited Researchers of 2014 list
- Sears Lecture, Woods Hole, GFD and Climate summer school 2014
- Francis Bretherton visitor to NCAR 2014
- Fulbright Scholar Award to New Zealand 2013-2014
- Rosenstiel Award in Atmospheric Science and Oceanography 2013
- American Geophysical Union Ascent Award in Atmospheric Science 2013
- Agassiz Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University 2013
- Community Climate System Model Distinguished Achievement Award 2002
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship (1999-2001)
- Shell Award, Department of Physics, University of Washington 1990
- Kerrer Award, Department of Physics, University of Washington 1989
- Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) and Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics) Honor Societies, 1986
- National Research Council, Board on Atmospheric Sciences, since Sep 2016
- UW representative to UCAR, since Oct 2013
- National Research Council committee on “Developing a U.S. Research Agenda to Advance Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasting”, July 2014 to March 2016.
Cheng, W., E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, C.M. Bitz, C. Ladd, and P. Stabeno, 2016: Diagnostic sea ice predictability in the pan-Arctic and U.S. Arctic regional seas, Geophy. Res. Lett., 43, 11,688-11,696, doi: 10.1002/2016GL070735.
Markle, B.R., E.J. Steig, C. Buizert, S.W. Shoenemann, C.M. Bitz, T.J. Fudge, J.B. Pedro, Q. Ding, T. Jones, J.W.C. White, and T. Sowers, 2016: Global atmospheric teleconnections during Dansgaard-Oeschger events, Nature Geo., doi:10.1038/ngeo2848.
Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., A. Barthélemy, M. Chevallier, R.I. Cullather, N. Fučkar, F. Massonnet, P Posey, W. Wang, J. Zhang, C. Ardilouze, C.M. Bitz, G. Vernieres, A. Wallcraft, and M. Wang, 2016: Multi-model seasonal forecast of Arctic sea-ice forecast uncertainty at pan-Arctic and regional scales, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3388-9.