Tag: Jay Banner
January 23, 2024
Geosciences Professor Honored With Top Teaching Award
AUSTIN, Texas — Jay Banner, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, has been awarded the Robert Foster Cherry…
Read MoreJuly 8, 2020
Texas Needs to Start Preparing for Possibility of 10-Year Megadroughts
Texans need to prepare for a near future that is hotter, drier and fraught with more water extremes, according to scientists. But preparation isn’t a…
Read MoreMay 29, 2020
Austin-Area Water and Wastewater Pipes Feeding Bull Creek
If it weren’t for leaky city pipes and irrigation runoff, it’s possible far less water would be flowing through popular Austin swimming holes. A recent…
Read MoreNovember 27, 2019
Hot Science on TV
Hot Science-Cool Talks has been engaging and educating the public for 20 years. Now the nationally recognized speaker series from the University of Texas Environmental…
Read MoreMay 26, 2017
Field Trip During International Karst Conference Looks at Science Behind Barton Springs
When an international group of scientists came to the Jackson School of Geosciences for a conference, they did what many others do when taking a…
Read MoreMay 12, 2017
Stalagmites and Rodent Bones Record Signs of Ice Age Texas
By Monica Kortsha Inner Space Cavern is a fossil hot spot. Thanks to sinkholes that exposed the cave to the surface during the last Ice…
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2016
UT Science Lecture Series Celebrates its 100th Episode
With stunt men, tornado clouds and a 13–foot long T-Rex puppet named Manny, “Hot Science — Cool Talks,” lecture series held on campus six times…
Read MoreOctober 5, 2015
Banner Chosen as 2015 Kappe Lecturer
Jay Banner, a professor in The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences and director of the UT Austin Environmental Science Institute, has…
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