Duncan A Young
Mailcode: R2200
Areas of Expertise
Polar remote sensing (especially areogeophysics), glaciology and geoscience. Member of the Europa Clipper project science group, a mission to Jupiters ocean world Europa. Lead for the Europa Clipper's radar instrument's (REASON) Science Data System and science requirements validation and verification. Ice-rock physical interactions in an ice cap context, tectonic evolution of the younger planetary crusts
Research Locations
Current Research Programs & Projects
International Collaborative Exploration of the Cryosphere through Airborne Profiling (ICECAP) ( view )REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-Surface
COLDEX
Open Polar Radar
Select Past Research
Geophysical Investigations of Marie Byrd Land Evolution (GIMBLE)
Steering Group member, Antarchitecture action group, Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (2019 - Present)
Associate Editor for Geophysics, Advances in Polar Science, (2016 - Present)
Steering Committee member, Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Project Expert Group, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (2015 - Present)
Graduate Students
Shuai Yan
(Committee Member)
Subglacial hydrology and geology, airborne geophysics survey, polar ice sheet dynamics
Megan Kerr (Supervisor)
Shivangini Singh (Co-supervisor)
Wei Wei, Ph.D., 2021
(Committee Member)
Jackson School of Geosciences
Enrica Quartini, Ph.D., 2018
(Co-supervisor)
University of Texas at Austin
Now at Cornell University's, Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab as a laboratory and field manager.
Marie Cavitte, Ph.D., 2017
(Committee Member)
University of Texas at AUustin
Now at Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium as a polar climate postdoc, after a stint in industry.
Brad Gooch, Ph.D., 2016 (Committee Member)
Jamin Greenbaum, Ph.D., 2015
(Committee Member)
UTIG
Bruce Frederick, Ph.D., 2015 (Committee Member)