The staff listed below work primarily in this field of study, but they often contribute to work across UTIG. Likewise, staff whose primary discipline is another focus within UTIG often contribute to work in this field and may not be listed below. Other areas of research include: Climate, Energy, and Marine Geosciences, Seismology and Tectonics.
| Faculty and Research Scientists | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Don Blankenship Research Professor 512-471-0489 blank@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Ginny Catania Professor 512-471-0403 gcatania@ig.utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate More Info |  Cyril Grima Research Assistant Professor 512-471-0377 cyril.grima@utexas.edu Interests: planet, cryosphere, radar More Info |  Doug Hemingway Research Assistant Professor douglas.hemingway@utexas.edu Interests: geophysical modeling, icy moons, planetary magnetism, space weathering More Info |
 Benjamin Keisling Research Assistant Professor keisling@ig.utexas.edu Interests: past climate, ice sheet dynamics, justice in geoscience More Info |  Yosio Nakamura Professor Emeritus 512-471-0428 yosio@ig.utexas.edu Interest: seismology More Info |  Krista Soderlund Research Associate Professor 512-471-0449 krista@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics More Info |  Elizabeth Spiers Research Associate elizabeth.spiers@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: ocean worlds, planetary habitability, mass transfer, systems modeling More Info |
 Timothy Urban Director, Texas Space Grant Consortium 512 471 0967 urban@utexas.edu More Info |  Chi Yan Research Associate chi.yan@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, magnetic fields, dynamo theory More Info |  Duncan A. Young Research Associate Professor 512-471-0485 duncan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics More Info | |
Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
 Leopold Desage Postdoctoral Fellow leopolddesage@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: radar simulations, clutter discrimination, planetary subsurface characterization, Jupiter icy moons, Mars More Info |  Perianne Johnson Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow perianne.johnson@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: planetary science, outer solar system, ocean worlds, planetary ices, Pluto More Info |  Sara Oliveira Santos Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow ssantos@ig.utexas.edu Interests: bio-inspired robotics, ecological and experimental fluid mechanics, ocean world exploration More Info | |
Technical and Administrative Staff | |||
 Dillon Buhl Research Scientist Associate III dillon.buhl@utexas.edu |  Talia Jurgens Program Manager, Texas Space Grant Consortium jurgens@tsgc.utexas.edu More Info |  Scott Kempf Senior Software Engineer 512-471-0482 scottk@ig.utexas.edu |  Angela Marable Senior Program Coordinator angela@ig.utexas.edu |
 Gregory Ng Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0482 ngg at ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Tom Richter Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0385 tomr@ig.utexas.edu | ||
Research Affiliates | |||
 Jamin Greenbaum Research Fellow 512-471-0385 jamin@utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, ice-ocean interactions, subglacial hydrological and geological controls on ice sheet stability More Info |  Shuai Yan Research Affiliate shuaiy@utexas.edu Interests: subglacial hydrology and geology, airborne geophysics survey, polar ice sheet dynamics | ||
Graduate Students | |||
 Jonas Haug jh74889@my.utexas.edu |  Eric Hiatt eric.hiatt@utexas.edu Interests: planetary surface processes, post-impact hydrothermal systems, hydrology, habitability More Info |  Megan Kerr megan.kerr@utexas.edu Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics, subglacial geology, polar ice sheet dynamics |  Mikayla Pascual mikayla.pascual@utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, glacier variability, numerical modeling More Info |
Sara Peters sarapeters@utexas.edu |  Medha Prakash medhaprakash@utexas.edu Interests: astrobiology, planetary surface processes, ice sheets, paleoclimate, Mars, prebiotic Earth, Schrödinger crater, radar More Info |  Hunter Reeves her863@utexas.edu Interests: icy ocean world habitability, ice-penetrating radar, ice fabric More Info |  Owen Seiner owen.seiner@utexas.edu |
 Mohammad Afzal Shadab mashadab@utexas.edu Interests: fluid dynamics, numerical methods, hydrology, cryosphere, multiphase flow in porous media More Info |  Kevin Shionalyn kevin.shionalyn@utexas.edu Interests: machine learning, marine-terminating glaciers, polar science policy |  Shivangini Singh shivangini@utexas.edu Interests: airborne geophysics, radioglaciology, polar ice sheet dynamics |  Casey Vigilia cvigilia@utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, sea level, glacial isostatic adjustment, modeling, remote sensing |
Undergraduate Students | |||
 Jason Bott Undergraduate Research Associate jbott@utexas.edu Interests: polar geophysics, subglacial volcanism, volcanology, polar ice sheet dynamics, airborne geophysics, glaciers, oceanography More Info |  Riley Foster rileycfoster@utexas.edu Interests: geomorphology, planetary surfaces processes, remote sensing, numerical modeling, photogrammetry |  Heidi Jackson heidi.jackson@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: habitability, icy worlds habitability, polar geophysics, oceanography, subglacial hydrology |  Caroline Mackin carolinemackin@utexas.edu Interests: carbonate sedimentology, seismology, glaciology, paleoclimatology |
 Mandala Pham mandaphm@utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, paleoclimatology, subglacial hydrology, glacier dynamics, ice core analysis | |||