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UTIG Scientists Part of Science Team for Space Probe to Jupiter's Icy Moons

The European Space Agency recently announced that it will send a space probe to Jupiter and its large icy moons Callisto, Ganymede and Europa. Don Blankenship and Britney Schmidt are part of the science team designing and operating a radar instrument for the JUICE (Jupiter Icy moons Explorer) spacecraft. Find out more...

 

Scientists Discover New Site of Potential Instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, a team of scientists from the U.S. and U.K. have uncovered a previously unknown sub-glacial basin nearly the size of New Jersey beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) near the Weddell Sea. UTIG research scientists, Don Blankenship and Duncan Young, are part of that team. Read more...

 

UTIG Researcher Serves as Member of JFAST Expedition

At the location of the M9 Tohoku earthquake, IODP Expedition 343: Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) is drilling across the megathrust fault where the seafloor slipped more than 50 meters on 11 March 2011. UTIG researcher, Patrick Fulton, is a member of the international research team. See updates from the expedition. Read Patrick's comments on the anniversary of the first deep ocean drilling expedition.

 

Live Expedition Webcast

UTIG research scientist, Jamie Austin, is leading an ocean exploration expedition to the northern Gulf of Mexico aboard the new NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer. The objectives are to pioneer techniques for doing quantitative acoustic measurements of hydrocarbon (gas bubble/oil) flows at multiple naturally occurring seep sites west of the Macondo/Deepwater Horizon wellsite in collaboration with Larry Mayer and the Center for Coastal Mapping at UNH. Tune in on the action live.

 

West Antarctic Ice Shelves Tearing Apart at the Seams

UTIG scientists, Joseph MacGregor and Ginny Catania, have found that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, potentially amplifying an already accelerating loss of ice to the sea. Read more...