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DeFord Lecture | Naoki Sakai

October, 22 2026

Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: JGB 2.324

How Landslides Grow into Disasters on a Changing Earth by Naoki Sakai, principal chief researcher, Storm, flood and landslide research division, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series

October, 23 2026

Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C

BEG Seminar presented by Ashley Matheny PhD, Associate Professor Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, JSG, in person or via Zoom.

Topic: Detangling the influences of combined stressors reveals insights into plant function across ecosystems.

Forests recycle roughly ~62,000 km3 of water to the atmosphere annually. The transport of water from the subsurface to roots, stems, and leaves out through stomata, and into the atmosphere links the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum while coupling Earth’s water and carbon cycles. This biological process is regulated dynamically and often varies substantially between species in the same ecosystem in response to multiple and often combined internal and external stressors. We will analyze vignettes from two distinct ecosystems and their responses to different sets of combined stressors to gain new insight into plant function. First, we will visit mangrove ecosystems exposed to both atmospheric dryness and salinity extremes to explore how water transport regulation strategies shift from leaves to roots to maximize productivity while maintaining hydraulic function. Then we will visit semi-arid woody savanna to detangle to combined influence of soil water limitation and atmospheric aridity on wood-water storage in drought tolerant trees. Understanding the storage and transport of water through soil, woody biomass, and leaves in this and many other ecosystems is critical for predicting forest resilience, carbon sequestration, and wildfire susceptibility. Finally, we will assess the implications of both studies for the ways we simulate the dynamic regulation of water acquisition, storage, and use by trees and how these findings can directly improve predictions of forest water, carbon, and energy cycles from coastlines to the continental interior.

Join Zoom Meeting:  https://utexas.zoom.us/j/93201377630?pwd=KzF3TW53SFYzSUg4SUZVNGtxd3JvZz09

Meeting ID: 932 0137 7630
Passcode: 013011

UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: Zach Sickmann

October, 23 2026

Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603





More details about this talk will be available soon.



DeFord Lecture | Marc Hirschman

October, 29 2026

Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: JGB 2.324

Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series

October, 30 2026

Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C

BEG Seminar Series presented by Mark Kittredge, OXY/SPWLA.

Topic: TBD

 

UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: Ryan Venturelli

October, 30 2026

Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603

More details about this talk will be available soon.

DeFord Lecture | Andy Zuza

November, 05 2026

Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: JGB 2.324

Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series

November, 06 2026

Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: BEG Bldg 130, VR Room 1.116C

BEG Seminar presented by Fitsume Wolkeba, BEG in person.

Topic: TBD

UTIG/BEG Joint Seminar

November, 13 2026

Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: UTIG/BEG ROC

UTIG and BEG will hold a joint seminar from 3-4pm in the the ROC with reception to follow in the Connector from 4-5pm.

UTIG Fall Seminar Series 2026: Patrick Fulton

November, 13 2026

Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603





More details about this talk will be available soon.