Taryn Black (she/her)
Graduate Student, glaciology
Office: ATG 208B / RTB 562
Email: [javascript protected email address]
Website: https://tarynblack.github.io/
Interests: glaciology; satellite remote sensing; climate change; science communication
Qtr/Year | Dept | Course # | Credits | Enrollment | % Responsible | Co-Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WIN 20 | CENV | 500 | 3 | 15 | 100 | |
| SUM 18 | ESS | 101 | 5 | 30 | ||
| SPR 18 | ESS | 213 | 5 | 47 |
Class Talks
Qtr/Year | Dept | Course # | Location | Type or Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPR 19 | Environmental Science | UCOR 3800 | Seattle University | How much, how fast? Building a record of glacier change in Greenland |
Awards
Award Name | Date | Awarding Body/Group | Description of Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graduate Research Fellowship | 4/2014 | National Science Foundation | Three years of funding for stipend and tuition. |
| Barksdale Distinguished Service Award | 5/2022 | UW Earth and Space Sciences |
Professional Talks
Black, T.E. and D. Kurtz (2022). Satellite observations of maritime glacier change at Kenai Fjords National Park. U.S. National Park Service Alaska Region GIS First Tuesday. Black, T.E. and I. Joughin (2021). Weekly to Monthly Terminus Variability of Greenland’s Marine-Terminating Outlet Glaciers. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, C31A-05. Black, T. & D. Kurtz. Satellite observations of coastal glacier change at Kenai Fjords National Park. Northwest Glaciologists, 15 Oct. 2020. Black, T. and I. Joughin. An annual record of outlet glacier termini in northwestern Greenland from 1972-2018. Northwest Glaciologists, Corvallis, OR, 5 Oct. 2019. Black, T. Observations of Greenlandic marine-terminating outlet glaciers on multiple time scales. Oceanography Graduate and Postdoc Symposium, Seattle, WA, 31 May 2019. [invited]
Service
I regularly give public talks, visit classrooms, and participate in other science outreach activities in the greater Seattle area. Within the university, I am a board member for Engage, a public science communication program at UW, and I serve on the ESS curriculum committee. I also organize an annual ESS graduate student housing survey, and a crowd-sourced welcome guide for new ESS graduate students.
Recent Publications
Black, T.E. and I. Joughin (2022) Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland. The Cryosphere, 16, 807–824, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-807-2022
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding glacier variability on sub-seasonal to multi-decadal timescales, particularly by leveraging the abundant imagery produced by various earth-observing satellites. I am also curious about processes related to glacier melt and ice-ocean interactions.
Curriculum Vitae
https://www.ess.washington.edu/people/cvs/black--taryn.pdf