... This interview with Dr. Claire Parkinson is being conducted in Washington D.C. for the NASA Headquarters History Office. ... He then asked, "What would you feel about modeling sea ice?" and I immediately replied, "That would be great!" ... The satellite data, whether it?s sea ice or something else, allow a global picture that you just cannot get any other way. ... So we had to do all sorts of things to develop the techniques of how to analyze the satellite data to determine something about sea ice. ...