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December 17, 2020

Greenland ‘Knickpoints’ Could Stall Spread of Glacial Thinning

A picture of Kangilliup Sermia, a glacier in Greenland

The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that included scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and NASA. Outlet glaciers protrude from the ice sheet into the sea, where surging ocean heat can speed up the loss […]

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January 10, 2020

LIONESS in the Field 1: The Long Journey South

UTIG polar researchers Dillon Buhl, Anja Rutishauser and Natalie Wolfenbarger have joined colleagues in West Antarctica to conduct vital surveys of one of the most unstable glaciers on Earth. The team are part of LIONESS, an international collaboration between The University of Texas at Austin, Montana State University and the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: Anja Rutishauser, Antarctica, field work, LIONESS, LIONESS Blog, Thwaites Glacier

January 10, 2020

LIONESS 2020: Who are the UTIG researchers investigating Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier?

LIONESS is an international collaboration between The University of Texas at Austin, Montana State University and the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), which aims to resolve unanswered questions about the sprawling Thwaites Glacier system in West Antarctica. On the UTIG team are three experienced field scientists, Dillon Buhl, Anja Rutishauser and Natalie Wolfenbarger. Learn why […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: Antarctica, LIONESS, Thwaites Glacier

January 10, 2020

UTIG Investigates Sea Level Threat of Giant Antarctic Glacier

Polar researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have joined colleagues in West Antarctica to conduct vital surveys of one of the most unstable glaciers on Earth. At around the size of Florida, Thwaites Glacier holds enough water to raise average global sea levels up to a meter. What’s more, if it […]

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July 30, 2019

Denis Felikson receives Early Career award for pioneering research on glacier thinning

Denis Felikson, a former UT graduate student, has received an early career award from the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) for research into glacier thinning that he conducted while working as a graduate research assistant at UTIG. Felikson graduated from the Department of Aerospace Engineering with a doctoral degree in 2018 and is now […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: awards, glaciers, glaciology, graduate students, Greenland, student awards

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