Dr. Don Blankenship
Radar sounding near Dome C
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)