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Polar and Planetary Staff and Students

 

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.

Research Scientists   
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Don Blankenship
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0489
blank@ig.utexas.edu
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Ginny Catania
Professor
512-471-0403
gcatania@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate
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Cyril Grima
Research Associate
512-471-0377
cyril.grima@utexas.edu
Interests: planet, cryosphere, radar
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Benjamin Keisling
Research Associate
keisling@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: past climate, ice sheet dynamics, justice in geoscience
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Yosio Nakamura
Professor Emeritus
512-471-0428
yosio@ig.utexas.edu
Interest: seismology
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Krista Soderlund
Research Scientist
512-471-0449
krista@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics
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Duncan A. Young
Research Scientist
512-471-0485
duncan@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Christopher Gerekos
Postdoctoral Fellow
christopher.gerekos@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: scattering of electromagnetic waves from rough random surface, mathematical modeling of natural surfaces, computational electromagnetics, Martian and Europan radar science
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Daphné Genevieve Lemasquerier
Postdoctoral Fellow
d.lemasquerier@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: fluid dynamics of geophysical flows, gas giants dynamics, icy worlds dynamics, zonal winds, large-scale vortices, rotating stratified flows, turbulence, wave-mean flow interactions
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Enze Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow

enze.zhang@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: glacier dynamics, ice-ocean interaction, remote sensing, deep learning
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Technical and Administrative Staff
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Dillon Buhl
Research Scientist Associate III
dillon.buhl@utexas.edu
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Scott Kempf
Senior Software Engineer
512-471-0482
scottk@ig.utexas.edu
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Angela Marable
Sr. Program Coordinator
512-471-0326
angela@ig.utexas.edu
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Gregory Ng
Research Scientist Associate V
512-471-0482
ngg at ig.utexas.edu
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Tom Richter
Research Scientist Associate V
512-471-0385
tomr@ig.utexas.edu
Research Affiliates
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Jamin Greenbaum
Research Fellow
512-471-0385
jamin@utexas.edu
Interests: geophysics, ice-ocean interactions, subglacial hydrological and geological controls on ice sheet stability
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Current Students
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Evan Carnahan
evan.carnahan@utexas.edu
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Kristian Chan
kristian.chan@utexas.edu
Interests: radar, brine mobilization, Europa
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Sophie Goliber
sgoliber@utexas.edu
Interests: glaciology, remote sensing, digital image processing
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Mohammad Afzal Shadab
mashadab@utexas.edu
Interests: fluid dynamics, numerical methods, hydrology, cryosphere, multiphase flow in porous media
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Wei Wei
wwei@utexas.edu
Interests: ice-ocean interaction in Antarctica, airborne geophysics
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Natalie Wolfenbarger
nwolfenb@utexas.edu
Interests: ice-penetrating radar, dielectric properties of saline ice, ice shelves as terrestrial analogs for icy ocean worlds, planetary habitability
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Shuai Yan
shuaiy@utexas.edu
Interests: subglacial hydrology and geology, airborne geophysics survey, polar ice sheet dynamics
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