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Ginny Catania
Ginny Catania, Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004
Research Associate
Institute for Geophysics
Jackson School of Geosciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0403
E-mail: catania@utig.ig.utexas.edu

WEB PAGE
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/gcatania/


BIOGRAPHY

Ginny Catania joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005, after completing her Post-Doctoral Research at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She won the Jackson School of Geosciences Excellence in Research Award in 2007 and the University of Minnesota?s Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998. Catania has done field work in Greenland and Antarctica. She is currently researching the importance of meltwater to the peripheral thinning of Greenland?s ice sheet for NASA.
Media Relations CONTACT
J.B. Bird
512-232-9623
jbird@jsg.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Greenland''s ice sheets; ice streams; glaciology; ice dynamics and glacier processes, remote sensing, field and model observations, basal processes (the transfer of water through glaciers and ice sheets); climate change; global warming

 




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