Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems

04/29/2024

CReSIS is hosting FREE camps this June for high school students interested in STEM. Applications close soon! https://cresis.ku.edu/summer-camps-cresis

04/08/2024

Our own Shravan Kaundinya got a feature!

I am from Bangalore, Karnataka, India and currently reside in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. My work involves designing, building, and deploying radar systems to remotely sense the polar regions.

04/01/2024

This June, CReSIS is hosting summer camps for high school students - totally free of charge! Apply by April 15.

02/29/2024

Visited the Flight Research Center last week to see what the KU Aerospace Engineering folks are up to! Alex Zugazagoitia
explained: “These are the internal structure of the Gemini V2 wings with the antennas integrated for the upcoming Greenland Mission. Hector Torres and I assembled the wings and then integrated the antenna into the wing structure.”

02/09/2024

Dr. Emily Arnold will discuss her adventures in engineering from Kansas to the South Pole as part of the Saturday STEM Seminar, tomorrow at 9 AM. Free admission!

02/09/2024

Aerospace engineers are all around us, sometimes working in areas we may not expect. At Science City's free Saturday STEM Seminar this Saturday, Feb 10, we will discuss the various fields of work an aerospace engineer could pursue, as well as one engineer’s work that took her all the way to the South Pole. Presented by Emily J Arnold, Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the Aerospace Engineering Department at KU.

Science City's Saturday STEM Seminars feature local STEM professionals presenting on hot topics in science, technology, engineering and math while also sharing highlights of their education and career paths. Each seminar takes place from 9:00-10:00am at Union Station's Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre and features a 45-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute interactive Q&A.

The seminars are geared toward grade 7-12 students and open to all interested members of the public.

For FREE registration to attend the Feb 10 seminar, visit >> https://bit.ly/SaturdaySTEMFeb10

To view the full series of Saturday STEM Seminars, visit >> https://bit.ly/SaturdaySTEMSeminars

02/05/2024

Tune into 1320 KLWN at 8 am this morning (2/5) to hear CReSIS’s Shravan Kaundinya talk about his recent research and field work in Antarctica!

01/25/2024

CReSIS director Carl Leuschen is a co-author on an exciting recent study revealing ice-rich deposits on Mars.

Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding radar sounder data reveals layering in the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) deposits Layers are likely due to transitions between mixture...

01/17/2024

COLDEX completed seventeen flights (eighty hours total!) at the South Pole this season, with CReSIS instruments collecting data onboard. Another successful season of airborne geophysics in the books 🛩️📡❄️ (thanks to , John Paden, and Greg Ng for the photos)

12/15/2023

Dr. Shawn Keshmiri recently earned a new multimillion dollar grant in collaboration with the Department of Defense, Kansas State University, and the University of Tennessee Space Institute to create opportunities for high school students to study advanced aerospace technologies like hypersonic, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The project is called Applied Research and Innovation Scholarship for Engineering Students in Aerospace, AI, and Cybersecurity (ARISE) . The program will be led by K-State’s Rural Education Center. https://today.ku.edu/2023/11/13/ku-engineering-partner-4-million-department-defense-grant

10/31/2023

Dr. John Paden is taking off to the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica to help setup CReSIS radars in McMurdo for the GHOST* Thwaites traverse. Thwaites Glacier is one of the largest and fastest changing glaciers in Antarctica and this traverse will improve predictions of future changes. He will also do some work on EAGER** radars.

*GHOST: Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites

**EAGER: A Dual-Band Radar for Measuring Internal Ice Deformation: a Multipass Ice-Penetrating Radar Experiment on Thwaites Glacier and the McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Picture: Group picture in front of EAGER radar, John Paden, Knut Christianson (Univ of Washington), Lee Taylor, and Andrew Hoffman (Univ of Washington)

08/21/2023

CReSIS professor Haiyang Chao explains how his research can be applied in wildfire management in this video from the University of Kansas School of Engineering:

06/15/2023

Catch up with CReSIS's current deployment of the RET-CR in Greenland on Dr. Steven Prohira's blog: https://www.prohira.com/blog.php

06/02/2023

Happy Pride! 📸 by Lee Taylor at the McMurdo Station last December

04/03/2023

Our own Shravan Kaundinya wrote about CReSIS field research and radar sensing in Antarctica for COLDEX! Check it out:

This blog post is by University of Kansas Ph.D. student Shravan Kaundinya . Radar and Ice In the field of radioglaciology, a whole host of operating frequencies have been used to study ice. A radar with lower operating frequency (typically less than 1 GHz) ensures greater ability to image

02/22/2023

Don't miss CReSIS's summer LEAPES camp in collaboration with K-State Rural Education Center! Admission deadline is April 1!!

09/27/2022

Sharing some exciting news this morning: after fifteen years, we have a new name. We are now the Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems.

We're still CReSIS! But over the years, our research priorities have evolved. With the recent conclusion of NASA's OIB, we shifted towards collaboration in the area of unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology.

Of course we're not giving up on ice sheets - polar research is still an important part of our mission. Expeditions to Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska still play a big part of our future plans as we expand and improve UAS navigation through greater payload capabilities, collision avoidance, and nonlinear model predictive control.

Read more about it here in a letter from Director Carl Leuschen on our brand new website:

A Letter from the Director CReSIS director Carl Leuschen shares some exciting changes and further thoughts on the state of our center. When I was officially named to the role of director of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets in February 2020, I could not have foreseen the difficult year we....