Department
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Graduate Student
Affiliation
University of Houston
Project
Julia Villafranca is a Masters student at the University of Houston working with Dr. Julia Wellner. Her thesis uses sub-bottom sediment profiles collected from the Amundsen Sea Sector on two National Science Foundation-supported research cruises in 2019 and 2020 to map sediment deposits and calculate their thickness.
Congratulations to Yixi Zheng, recipient of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) Early Career Scientist Prize! Yixi, from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a researcher with ITGC's TARSAN project, received the award for her paper:
Scientists Dr Peter Davis (British Antarctic Survey) and Dr Britney Schmidt (Cornell University) have been named in the 2023 TIME100 annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. They were recognized for their contributions to climate science, following the publication of results from an unprecedented expedition to measure melting under the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
