• ICECAP: Ice and climate evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate. Invited lecture. Sunday Science Lecture, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, December 28, 2008.
• Beginning the Search for Life on the Outer Planets: Through Europa's Icy Looking Glass. Invited lecture. Environmental Science Institute, Hot Science Cool Talks, University of Texas, November 14th, 2008.
• Ice properties relevant to radar sounding of icy moons: Lessons from Earth applied to Europa. Keynote address. Science of Solar System Ices: A Cross-Disciplinary Workshop, Oxnard, California, May 5-8, 2008.
• Geological controls on the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet. Invited lecture. International Polar Year 2007-2008 Texas A&M Directed Study, College Station, Texas, November 8, 2007.
• The distribution of Antarctic subglacial lake environments with implications for their origin and evolution. Invited lecture, U.S. Committee on Principles of Environmental Stewardship for the Exploration and Study of Subglacial Environments, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., September 14, 2006.
• The distribution of Antarctic subglacial lake environments with implications for their origin and evolution. Keynote address, Workshop on Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments in the International Polar Year, Grenoble, France, April 24-25, 2006.
• The exploration of Jupiter’s icy moons. Invited lecture, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, July 16, 2004.
• Earth’s ice sheets and ice shelves as an analog for Europa’s icy shell. Keynote Address, Workshop on Europa’s Icy Shell, Houston, Texas, February 6-8, 2004.
• The influence of subglacial geology on ice streaming processes and ice stream evolution in West Antarctica.  Keynote address, International Symposium on Palaeo-Ice Streams, Aarhus, Denmark, October 18, 2001.
• The evolution of the West Antarctic ice sheet; from global sea-level change to life on Jupiter’s moons. Keynote address, Compaq Executive Forum on High Performance Technical Computing, Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2, 2001.
• Lithospheric controls on the evolution of the West Antarctic ice streams:  An application of high-resolution airborne geophysics. Invited lecture, Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 16, 2001.
• SOAR Red Eyes:  Aerogeophysics in Antarctica. Invited lecture, South Pole Station, Antarctica, December 12, 1998.

Invited Talks

• The subglacial Amundsen Sea Embayment: The view from aerogeophysics. Invited talk. International Workshop on Amundsen Sea Embayment Tectonic and Climate Evolution, Granada, Spain, September 9, 2009.
• Unveiling the Aurora Subglacial Basin, Antarctica: Initial findings of the first season of ICECAP. Invited talk. First Antarctic Climate Evolution Symposium, Granada, Spain, September 8, 2009.
• Investigating the cryospheric evolution of the central Antarctic plate (ICECAP): Aerogeophysical exploration of the Aurora Subglacial Basin and Totten Glacier. Invited talk. InternationalWorkshop -Exploring Frontier Regions in East Antarctica During IPY and Beyond, CambridgeUniversity, United Kingdom, March 20, 2009.
• Investigating the cryospheric evolution of the central Antarctic plate: A long-range aerogeophysical survey of East Antarctica’s subglacial basins. Invited talk. Workshop on Geological and Geophysical Investigations from the Transantarctic Mountains to Dome C, University of Genoa, Italy, September 26, 2008.
• Coupled ice, water and crustal systems beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet with implications for fast glacier flow and habitats. Invited talk. Special Session on Subglacial Environments of Glaciers and Ice Sheets, General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008.
• Radar sounding of Europa’s subsurface properties and processes. Invited talk. Polar Gateways Arctic Circle Sunrise 2008, International Polar Year, Pasadena, California and Barrow, Alaska, January 28, 2008.
• Radar imaging of Europa’s subsurface properties and processes: The view from Earth. Invited talk. Special Session on the Return to Europa, San Francisco, California, December 7, 2007. [Blankenship, D.D., W.B. Moore, D.A. Young and M.E.Peters. EOS, vol. 88, no. 52, abstract P51E-04.].
• Understanding ice/water/earth dynamics through airborne characterization of subglacial environments. Invited talk. Geoscience Research on Antarctic Subglacial Environments Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 1, 2007.
• The detection and validation of sub-ice water systems through coupled airborne radar/lidar investigations. Invited talk, Special Session on Terrestrial and Planetary Surface Processes from Lidar, Radar, and Imaging, San Francisco, California, December 7, 2005. [Blankenship, D.D., M.E. Peters, D.L. Morse and D.A. Young. EOS, vol. 86, no. 52, abstract P33D-03.].
• Terrestrial radar sounding studies of thermal. compositional and structural interfaces analogous to those hypothesized for Europa’s icy mantle. Invited talk, Special session on Applications of Planetary Radars, San Francisco, California, December 11, 2003. [Blankenship, D.D., M.E. Peters, D.L. Morse. EOS, vol. 84, no. 46, abstract P42B-07.].
• A science foundation for orbital subsurface radar sounding of Jupiter’s icy moons. Invited talk, Special Session on the Scientific Rationale for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Mission, San Francisco, California, December 8, 2003. [Blankenship, D.D., D.P. Winebrenner, B.A. Campbell, R.T. Pappalardo, D.T. Sandwell. EOS, vol. 84, no. 46, abstract P11C-04.].
• Subsurface radar. Invited talk, Forum on Concepts and Approaches for Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, Houston, Texas, June 12-14, 2003.
• Investigating the crustal elements of the Antarctic Plate with airborne radar sounding. Invited talk, Structure and Evolution of the Antarctic Plate (SEAP 2003) Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, March 3-5, 2003.
• Investigating the crustal elements of the central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP): Long-range aerogeophysics as a foundation for access drilling in East Antarctica. Invited talk, FASTDRILL 2002 Workshop: Interdisciplinary Polar Research Based on Fast Ice-Sheet Drilling. Santa Cruz, California, October 3-6, 2002.
• Structural and hydrogeological characterization of subglacial lithosphere from airborne radar sounding. Invited talk, Remote Views and Exploration of Antarctic Lithosphere (REVEAL) Workshop, Denver, Colorado, August 5-8, 2002.
• Other Lakes. Invited talk, International Workshop on Lake Vostok, Cambridge, U. K., September 26-28, 1999.
• Remote sensing projects and possibilities in Antarctica:  Airborne systems.  Invited talk, NASA Workshop on the Next Decade of Antarctic Research, Madison, Wisconsin, July 14-16, 1998.
• Antarctic applications of airborne ice penetrating radar.  Invited talk, Europa Radar Sounder Initiative Workshop, Pasadena, California, April 27-29, 1998.
• Evolution of ice sheets and ice covered lithosphere from aerogeophysical and space based observations.  Invited talk, Symposium on Space-Based Geoscience Observations:  Looking Down at the Future, Austin, Texas, February 5-6, 1998.
• A technical overview of the Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research. Invited talk, Workshop on Aerogeophysical Research Opportunities in Antarctica, Arlington, Virginia, March 18-19, 1996.