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Don Blankenship - Summary of Student Activity

Donald D. Blankenship
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2009               

  • Technical Advice: British Broadcasting Corporation, Television documentary “SevenWonders of the Solar System”.
  • Technical Advice: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Television series “Foreign Correspondent” Episode “What Lies Beneath” presented by Mark Corcoran.
  • Radio Interview: Earth and Sky, “In a warming climate, which ice sheet melts first?” presented by Deborah Byrd.
  • Print Interview: New Scientist, “ANDRILL”, Doug Fox.

2008         

  • Print Interview: Antarctic Sun, “ICECAP project to explore subglacial basins below sea level in East Antarctica”, Peter Rejcek.
  • Print Interview: Antarctic Sun, “Scientific campaign brings new insights to East Antarctica, broadens international collaboration”, Peter Rejcek.
  • Print Interview: Austin American Statesman, “On a mission to find life near Jupiter”, Mary Ann Roser.
  • Television Interview: KTBC FOX News Austin, “ICECAP”.
  • Print Interview: Austin American Statesman, “Modeling the West Antarctic ice sheet with supercomputers”, Kirk Leydendorf.
  • Print Interview: Science Now, “The West Antarctic ice sheet and subglacial volcanoes”, Phil Birardelli.
  • Lecture and Panel Discussion: Radio Journalists Workshop, Austin, Texas, Ice sheets and climate change.

2007               

  • Print Interview, Austin American Statesman, Ice sheets and sea level.
  • Press Conference, American Geophysical Union, The return to Europa.
  • Television Interview, KTBC, Ice sheets, sea level and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nick Zackeman.
  • Reviewer, Exploration of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments: Environmental and Scientific Stewardship, Report of the National Academy of Science.
  • Radio Interviews: KUT, the West Antarctic ice sheet and sea level.
  • Webcast Panel Discussion: UT/JSG, West Antarctic links to sea-level estimation.
  • Print Interview, Reuters, the West Antarctic ice sheet and sea level.
  • Print Interview, Los Angeles Times, the West Antarctic ice sheet and sea level, Alan Zarembo.
  • Television Interview: KXAN, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Laura Skirde.
  • Print Interview: Austin American Statesman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, A.Price.

2006

  • Print Interview: New Scientist, Antarctic subglacial lake environments, Gabrielle Walker.

2005               

  • Radio Interview: BBC, Antarctica’s ice bottom exposed, Jonathan Amos.

2004

  • Print Interview: Antarctica Exploration since the IGY, Gabrielle Walker.
  • Print Interview: A History of Subglacial Exploration in Antarctica 1957-2007, Katrina Dean.

2003

  • Radio Interview: BBC (Europa radar sounding).

2002

  • Technical Advice; Fugro Inc, aerogeophysical survey of the Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica.
  • Sponsor: Michael Parrish, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.
  • Online Interview: “Cyberways and Waterways” March 7, 2002.
  • Print Interview: Physics Today, February 4, 2002.

2001               

  • Presentation: Northwest Austin Rotary, Austin, Texas.
  • Technical Advice: National Geographic Antarctic Map Folio.

2000

  • Technical Advice: NOVA television documentary on glaciers and ice streams.
  • Technical Advice:  “Moons of the Solar System,” Discovery Channel
  • Print Interview:  Daily Texan (West Antarctic Ice Streams).

1999 – 2000

  • Interview and Technical Advice:  Horizon television documentary, “Lake Vostok,” BBC/Discovery Channel, Jonathan Renouf, producer (aired April 2001).

1999

  • Print Interview:  New Scientist (Europa).
  • Print Interview:  New Scientist (West Antarctic Ice Streams).

1998

  • Technical Advice:  Antarctica, Bantam Books, K.S. Robinson.
  • Presentation:  Kirby Hall School, Austin, Texas.
  • Technical Advice:  New Explorers, Kurtis Productions.
  • Print Interview:  Christian Science Monitor.
  • Presentation:  Hill Elementary, Austin, Texas.
  • Interviews and Technical Advice:  NOVA documentary, “Warnings From

            the Ice,” PBS, Rob Gardner, producer (aired April 21, 1998).

1997

  • Technical Advice:  Earth and Sky, NPR, Deborah Byrd, producer.
  • Print Interview:  New York Times

1996-1997      

  • Interviews and Technical Advice:  Horizon documentary, “The Ice Melts,”   Kate O'Sullivan producer (aired October 5, 1997).
  • Print Interviews:  Time, Chronicle of High Education, Austin American Statesman.

1995               

  • Technical Advice: Green Mars, Bantam Books, K.S. Robinson.

1994

  • Technical Advice:  "Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and  Discoveries," John Wiley and Sons, S.B. McGrayne.
  • Technical Advice:  Dans La Nature, Canal Plus (French Television) documentary, Laurence Labert.

1993               

  • Interview:  As it Happens, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Technical Advice:  Earth and Sky, NPR, Deborah Byrd, producer.
  • Print Interviews:  Science News, Discover, New York Times, Washington Post,Scientific American, The Economist, Austin American Statesman, Decatur

            Herald and Review, Reader's Digest, Mundo 21.

  • Presentation:  LAMP (Learning Activities for Mature People), Texas Division of Continuing Education.

1991-1992                   

  • Technical Advice:  IMAX documentary "Antarctica," John Wiley, producer.
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