UTEP TIME Team
Marianne Karplus, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research involves using seismology to study the structure and behavior of glaciers and also of the Earth. In addition to studying glaciers in Antarctica and Alaska, Dr. Karplus also studies earthquakes and tectonics in the Himalayas, Tibet, and Western U.S.
Contact Me:
mkarplus (at) utep (dot) edu
Galen Kaip, M.S., is the Director of the National Seismic Source Facility housed in the Department of Geological Sciences at UTEP. The SSF is funded by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), to assist scientists with seismic sources. Mr. Kaip has worked in Antarctica before as well as Greenland, Alaska, Kenya, Russia, Tibet, and many other places around the world.
Contact Me:
gkaip (at) utep (dot) edu
Steven Harder, Ph.D., is a Research Professor of Geological Sciences at UTEP. He is the founder and former Director of the National Seismic Source Facility. Dr. Harder has participated in numerous seismic research projects all over the globe.
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For more information about the seismic source facility, please visit https://www.utep.edu/science/ssf/
Contact Me:
harder (at) utep (dot) edu
TIME is a collaborative project involving scientists at five other universities including University of California Santa Cruz, Stanford University, University of Oklahoma, Cambridge University (UK) and Leeds University (UK) first submitted our proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Environment Research Council (NERC) in early 2017, so this project has been several years in the vision and planning stages already. The field season planning escalated about 6 months ago and has involved numerous phone calls with our TIME science team and USAP to discuss logistics and possibilities.
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The primary Principal Investigators for the entire project are Slawek Tulacyzk (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz) and Poul Christoffersen (Cambridge University).
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TIME is part of the larger International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), which includes eight NSF-NERC-funded science projects to study Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. For more information about ITGC, check out the ITGC website.