Duncan Young Research Science Associate V Telephone: (512) 471-0485 FAX: (512) 471-0999 email: duncan   BSc (Hons.), Geological Sciences University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1997 PhD, Geology Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, 2003 Duncan's CV

Research Interests

Current Projects

Analysis of Antarctic aerogeophysical data -see AGASEA results here!

The subglacial context for surface elevation change

Aerogeophysical exploration of East Antarctica

Publications
Blankenship, D. D., D. A. Young, W. B. Moore, and J. C. Moore, in press, Radar imaging of Europa's subsurface properties and processes: the view from Earth, in Europa, edited by R. T. Pappalardo, W. B. McKinnon, and K. Khurana, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Carter, S. P., D. D. Blankenship, D. A. Young, M. E. Peters, J. W. Holt, and M. J. Siegert, in press, Dynamic distributed drainage implied by the flow evolution of the 1996-1998 Adventure Trench subglacial outburst flood , Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.019

Holt, J. W., A. Safaeinili, J. J. Plaut, J. W. Head, R. J. Phillips, R. Seu, S. D. Kempf, P. Choudhary, D. A. Young, N. E. Putzig, D. Biccari, and Y. Gim (2008), Radar sounding evidence for buried glaciers in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars, Science, 322, 1235Ð1238, doi:10.1126/science.1164246.

Young, D. A., S. D. Kempf, D. D. Blankenship, J. W. Holt, and D. L. Morse, 2008, New Airborne Laser Altimetry over the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q06006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001935

Diehl, T. M., J. W. Holt, D. D. Blankenship, D. A. Young, T. Jordan, and F. Ferraccioli, 2008, First Airborne Gravity Results over the Thwaites Glacier Catchment, West Antarctica, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q04011, doi:10.1029/2007GC001878

J.L. Chen, C.R. Wilson, B.D. Tapley, D. Blankenship, and D. Young., 2008, Antarctic Regional Ice Loss Rates From GRACE, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 266(1-2), p. 140-148, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.057

Peters, M. E., D. D. Blankenship, S. P. Carter, D. A. Young, S. D. Kempf, and J. W. Holt, 2007, Along-track focusing of airborne radar sounding data from West Antarctica for improving basal reflection analysis and layer detection, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(9), 2725-2736, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2007.897416.

Hansen V. L. and Young, D. A., 2007, Venus's evolution: A synthesis, in Cloos, M., Carlson, W.D., Gilbert, M.C., Liou, J.G., and Sorensen, S.S., eds., Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A Tribute to W.G. Ernst: Geological Society of America Special Paper 419, p. 255-273, doi:10.1130/2006.2419(13).

Bingham, R. G., Siegert, M. J., Young, D. A. and Blankenship D. D. 2007, Organised flow from the South Pole to the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf: an assessment of balance velocities in interior East Antarctica using radio-echo sounding data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(F03S27), doi:10.1029/2006JF000556.

Carter, S. P., Blankenship, D. D., Peters, M. E., Young, D. A., Holt, J. W. and Morse, D. L. 2007, Radar-based subglacial lake classification in Antarctica, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8(Q03016), doi:10.1029/2006GC001408.

Holt, J. W. and Blankenship, D. D. and Morse, D. L. and Young, D. A. and Peters, M. E. and Kempf, S. D. and Richter, T. and Vaughan, D. G. and Corr, H., 2006, New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: subglacial topography of the Thwaites and Smith Glacier catchments, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L09502, doi:10.1029/2005GL025561

Vanghan, D. G. and Corr, H. F. J. and Ferraccioli, F. and Frearson, N. and O'Hare, A. and Mach, D. and Holt, J. and Blankenship, D. and Morse, D. and Young., D., 2006, New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: subglacial topography beneath Pine Island Glacier, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L09501, doi:10.1029/2005GL025588

Young, D. A., and V. L. Hansen, 2005, Poludnista Dorsa, Venus: History and context of a deformation belt, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, v. 110, E03001, doi:10.1029/2004JE002280

Young, D. A., and V. L. Hansen, Geological Map of the Rusalka Planitia quadrangle (V-25), Venus, I-2783 in Geological Investigations Series, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, 2003. url:http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2783/

DeShon, H. R., Young, D. A., and Hansen, V. L., 2000, Geological evolution of southern Rusalka Planitia, Venus, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, v. 105, E1, p. 6983-6995, doi:10.1029/1999JE001155