Jaia P. M. Syvitski

Jaia Syvitski is an American-Canadian earth system scientist and Professor Emerita.

After graduation, Syvitski became an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. In 1981, she moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to work as a senior research scientist for the Bedford Institute of Oceanography with the Canadian Federal Department Natural Resources Canada. During that period Syvitski received appointments as adjunct professor at Canadian Universities: Dalhousie, Laval Universities, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique of Quebec.

Syvitski retired in 2018. She has written over 500 publications, including peer-reviewed and popular articles and books.

Awards and honours

Personal life

Syvitski is non-binary and genderqueer, and uses she/her pronouns. She came out publicly around 2005.

Outside of work, Syvitski enjoys guitar, meditation, tai chi, gardening, and literature.