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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

February 4, 2016

Scientists map movement of Greenland Ice During Past 9,000 years

  Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time, revealing that ice in the interior is moving more slowly toward the edges than it has, on average, during the past 9,000 years. The findings, which researchers said don’t change the fact that the ice sheet is […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Climate, glaciers, Greenland, ice sheets, research, Sea Level Rise

October 16, 2015

UTIG Featured in Earth & Space Science News

The view of Kangerlussuup Sermia ice sheet in Greenland.

Postdoctoral Fellow Timothy Bartholomaus’ research is gaining notoriety with the scientific community.

Filed Under: News, planetary-slideshow Tagged With: Alaska, glaciers, Greenland, ice sheets, postdoctoral fellow, press coverage

October 14, 2015

Going Against Greenland

new research says tropical rainfall could be impacted for generations to come

Filed Under: Climate Stories, News Tagged With: Climate, climate change, Greenland, Philippines, rainfall, research, younger dryas

September 27, 2015

An Unexpected Discovery

helping understand how glaciers and ice sheets melt into the ocean

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alaska, glaciers, Greenland, ice sheets, icequakes, postdoctoral fellow, research, seismicity, subglacial discharge

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