Active WAIS-related projects at the University of Texas at Austin include:
     Onset of Ice Stream Flow
     Western Divide West Antarctic Ice Cores (WAISCORES) Site Selection

Previous WAIS-related projects at the University of Texas at Austin include:
     Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research
     Advanced Technology for Radar Sounding
     CASERTZ
     WAISCORES Inland Site Selection
     WAIS Ice Divide Migration
     Lithospheric Controls on the Behavior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Aerogeophysics of the Eastern Ross Transect Zone

Schematic of the West Antarctic ice sheet and its lithospheric setting. The interior ice reservoir is the portion of the ice sheet below the ice divide where the ice sheet is attached to its bed. This interior ice is penetrated and drained by the fast moving ice streams which flow between regions of relatively stagnant ice. The open arrows indicate the gliding of ice over its bed from the onset region toward the ice shelf. Beneath the ice streams the lubricating till is illustrated. The extensional nature of the underlying lithosphere is indicated by the sediment filled grabens beneath the ice streams.

Links to other WAIS pages:
     WAIS Homepage at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
     WAISCORES page at Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno