Climate Research at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Climate

Research Staff

Name Area of Interest Project Location
Blankenship, Don ice sheet dynamics, subglacial geology, airborne/ground geophysical techniques, planetary studies Antarctica
Catania, Ginny cryosphere, ice dynamics, glacier hydrology, remote sensing of ice sheet change Antarctica, Greenland
Jackson, Charles uncertainty quantification and climate dynamics
Okumura, Yuko climate variability and change, ocean-atmosphere interaction, atmospheric teleconnection, paleoclimate and thermohaline circulation ocean and atmosphere
Partin, Jud past hydrologic changes, stalagmite records Western Pacific Warm Pool, Guam
Quinn, Terry paleoclimateology, paleoceanography, sedimentary geology, and geochemistry Gulf of Mexico, Pacific
Scott, Rob theory, modeling and observations of mesoscale ocean dynamics
Taylor, Frederick geochemistry of the annual density bands in living and fossil corals as inferences to late Quaternary paleoclimate western tropical Pacific (Western Pacific Warm Pool)
Tobis, Michael earth system modelling; statistical methods and uncertainty quantification; productivity in applied computation  
Vizy, Ned African climate variability, drought/climate change, abrupt climate change, Atlantic hurricane development Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean
Young, Duncan radar sounding of ice sheets and icy bodies, basal properties of ice sheets, influence of geology on ice sheet structure Antarctica

Post-doctoral Fellows

Name Area of Interest Project Location
Gulley, Jason glaciology Svalbard and Greenland
Khider, Deborah Paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, geochemistry Indonesian Seas, Gulf of Mexico
MacGregor, Joe glaciogical settings of modern ice sheets and glaciers Antarctica
Schmidt, Britney Europa & terrestrial analogs, Solar System Icy Bodies Antarctica & Europa
Soderlund, Krista Planetary fluid and ice sheet dynamics Antarctica & Europa