Current Projects
UTIG is involved in a number of nationally and internationally collaborative polar research projects. For links to current and past projects visit the Research page »
More on UTIG and the International Polar Year »
Workshops and Symposia:
Hot Science - Cool Talks Outreach Lecture Series at UT's Environmental
Science institute. Friday November 14, 2008 - 7pm CST (Live Webcast -
follow link below)
Donald Blankenship, 'Beginning the Search for Life on the Outer Planets'
Read the article in the Austin American-Statesman >>
What are the consequences of polar melting? Ginny Catania answers student questions on the Earth and Sky Radio Series (Program #5636, October 27, 2008). Listen here »
Hot Science - Cool Talks Outreach Lecture Series at UT's Environmental Science Institute. Friday, September 5, 2008 - 7pm CST (Live Webcast - follow link below)
Ginny Catania, 'Giant Ice Sheets Threaten Globe!?: Climate Change and the Greenland Ice Sheet
Polar Research - Arctic and
Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year (SCAR/IASC), St.
Petersburg, Russia, 8-11 July, 2008.
International
Symposim on Radioglaciology and its Applications (International
Glaciological Society), Madrid, Spain, 9-13 June, 2008.
In March, 2007, UTIG hosted the WALSE, West Antarctic Links to Sea-Level
Estimation workshop, an international consortium of polar ice experts. Read more »
Upcoming Field Campaigns
November, 2008 - January, 2009: ICECAP: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate
April 13 - May 31, 2008: Central Scotia Sea Floor and the Drake Passage Deep Ocean Current
Gateway - Follow the adventures of Austin teacher Katie Pena
(Zilker Elementary) as she gets underway with UTIG.
Read Katie's daily blog on Polar Trec's Virtual Base Camp Website >>
November, 2007: Grounding Line Forensics - Research Associate, Ginny Catania, and PhD. Candidate, Jamin Greenbaum, headed to West Antarctica. Read more »
More on UTIG polar field campaigns »
