COMPRES, the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences supported by the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, has announced speakers for its 2018-2019 Distinguished Lecturer series in the field of Mineral Physics.  IGPP's Anne Pommier has been selected for this honor and she will be joined Bin Chen (University of Hawaii).

Congratulations to IGPP's David Sandwell the American Geophysical Union's 2018 Charles A. Whitten Medal recipient!  Sandwell, a Professor of Geophysics, was awarded this biennial medal for “outstanding achievement in research on the form and dynamics of the Earth and planets.” To learn more, visit https://eos.org/agu-news/2018-agu-union-medal-award-and-prize-recipients-announced.

Helen Fricker, graduate student Susheel Adusumilli and former IGPP graduate students Fernando Paolo and Matthew Siegfriend join "The Conversation" to discuss the accelerating melt rate of Antarctic ice shelves, the compounding global problems that will arise as this melting continues its trajectory, and the vital role satellites play to track the balance of ice flows and melting. For more information, click here.

The year is 2070, Antarctica has not what it was 50 years ago.  Helen Fricker and her colleages present scenarios of Antarcitca's future in the 14 June 2018 Nature article "Choosing the future of Antarctica." The aritcle presents continental and global outcomes from the options presented: "ambitious action" to halt enviromental impacts/greenhouse gas emission vs. a continued path of public disinterest and environmental diffidence.

IGPP's Geoff Davis shares, with Spiceworks, his experieces with snake chaps, poorly defined public easements (and armed land owners), protecting hardware from moisture damage in the desert, and much more as the technical lead for HPWREN.