Donald D. Blankenship
Offices Held, Committee Participation or Chair, and Other Administrative Duties (.pdf)

National/International Service

• Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Exploration (Member of the Advisory Committee, 2009)
• Joint NASA/ESA Mission to the Jupiter System (Member of the Science Definition Team, 2008-Present)
• NASA’s Europa Explorer (Member of the Science Definition Team, 2006–2007)
• SCAR’s Special Programme for Antarctic Climate Evolution (Member of the Radio Echo Sounding Committee, 2005–2009)
• The West Antarctic Ice-Sheet (WAIS) Initiative (Member of the Steering Committee, 1991-Present)
• NASA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter – JIMO (Member of the Science Definition Team, 2003-2005)
• WAIS Initiative for the Amundsen Sea Embayment (Member of the Working Group, 2000-2003)
• NSF Facility for Aerogeophysical Research in Antarctica - SOAR (Principal Investigator and Scientific Director, 1994-2002)
• NASA’s Europa Radar Sounder (Chair of the Instrument Definition Team, 1998-1999)
• NASA’s Europa Orbiter (Member of the Science Definition Team, 1998-1999)
• SCAR Special Programme for Antarctic Offshore Acoustic Stratigraphy – ANTOSTRAT (Member of the Steering Committee, 1990-1994)

 

University Service

2009 – Present             Member, Equipment Committee (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2009 – Present             Member, Overhead Return Advisory Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
2009 – Present             Member, Earth Surface and Hydrological Processes Search Committee (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2006 – 2009                Member, Opportunity Hire Search Committee (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2006 – 2009                Chair, Equipment Committee (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2005 – 2009                Member, Strategic Planning Council (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2005 – 2006                Member, Search Committee for Marine Geophysics and Cryospheric Science (Institute for Geophysics)
2004 – 2005                Member, Implementation Committee (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2003 – 2006                Member, Equipment Committee (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2002 – Present             Elected Member, Graduate Studies Committee (Department of Geological Sciences)
2002 – 2003                Chair, Ad hoc committee for an Airborne Geoscience Initiative (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2002 – 2003                Member, Ad hoc committee for a Water Resources Initiative (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2002 – 2003                Member, Ad hoc committee for a Climate Change Initiative (Jackson School of Geosciences)
            2002                Chair, Committee on National Rankings (Jackson School of Geosciences)
2001 – 2002                Member, Climate Change Working Group (Environmental Science Institute)
2000 – 2001                Member Search Committee for Quantitative Paleoclimatologists (Institute for Geophysics)
2000 – 2004                Member Computer Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
2000 – 2004                Member Development Advising Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
1997 – 1998                Member Computer Graphics Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
2000 – 2001                Member Geoscience Alliance Committee (Department of Geological Sciences/Bureau of Economoic Geology/Institute for Geophysics)
            2000                Host, Professor David Besson, The University of Kansas, Department of Physics, Big XII Faculty Fellow
1995 – 2000                Member Public Relations Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
1997 – 1999                Member Seminar Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
1996 – 1997                Member Fellowship Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
1996 – 1997                Member Committee to Relocate The Institute (Institute for Geophysics)
1994 – 1996                Member Computer Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
1992 – 1994                Member Library Committee (Institute for Geophysics)
1992 – 1994                Member Ship, Space and Equipment Committee (Institute for Geophysics)

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