Anna Ruth Halberstadt

Anna Ruth Halberstadt is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joining in fall 2024. Her research focuses on Antarctic glaciology, particularly ice sheet responses to past warm periods and their implications for future climate change and sea level rise.

Halberstadt bridges geologic data and climate modeling to study Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics, with fieldwork experience in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. She teaches GEO 416W: Climate, Water, and the Environment, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and modern climate challenges.

Her work addresses the integration of marine/terrestrial records with numerical models, ice sheet sensitivity to CO2 levels, and surface meltwater dynamics using satellite imagery. Halberstadt collaborates with researchers like Benjamin Keisling and admires Ginny Catania's glacier studies.