02/11/11

Story by Peggy Graham

"Ice Movement in Antarctica: Byrd Glacier"

Antarctica is subject of JCCC sustainability lecture

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Brandon Gillette, a member of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets education team, will present Ice Movement in Antarctica: Byrd Glacier from 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, in the Polsky Theatre of the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Gillette is developing lesson plans and curriculum around remote sensing, data collection and other CReSIS-related science. CReSIS is a Science and Technology Center established by the National Science Foundation in 2005, with the mission of developing new technologies and computer models to measure and predict the response of sea level change to the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

Gillette is a PhD student in environmental geology and glaciology at the University of Kansas. He first traveled to Antarctica in 2007 with an outreach organization called Polar TREC.

The lecture is part of the JCCC Sustainability Lecture Series and sponsored by the JCCC Center for Teaching and Learning, Office of Staff and Organizational Development and the JCCC Center for Sustainability.

For more information, email Deborah Williams, associate professor, biology and environment science, JCCC, or call 913-469-8500, ext. 4671.

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