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January 31, 2022

Robotic Exploration of Uncharted, Underwater Glacial Walls Set for 2023

The robot in action underwater. The lights from its open payload bay doors light up ice underwater

It’s the front line of climate change and could hold the key to predicting global sea level rise, but what goes on at the underwater face of Greenland’s glaciers is a mystery to science. That could change in 2023 with a bold new mission led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that… Continue Reading Robotic Exploration of Uncharted, Underwater Glacial Walls Set for 2023

Filed Under: Climate Stories, homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Ginny Catania, glaciers, Greenland, Keck Foundation, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), remote submersible, robotic exploration, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, underwater exploration

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

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

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. Continue Reading UTIG Featured in Earth & Space Science News

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 Continue Reading Going Against Greenland

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

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