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Habitability Seminar: Brett Baker, UT Marine Science Institute
Start:July 8, 2020 at 10:30 am
End:
July 8, 2020 at 11:30 am
Location:
Zoom Meeting
Contact:
Cornelia Rasmussen, crasmussen@utexas.edu
A seminar from the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability
Title: Exploring new branches of life for the origins of eukaryotes
Speaker: Brett Baker, University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Habitability Seminar: Dr. Ken Wisian, University of Texas at Austin
Start:July 29, 2020 at 10:30 am
End:
July 29, 2020 at 11:30 am
Location:
Zoom Meeting
Contact:
Cornelia Rasmussen, crasmussen@utexas.edu
A seminar from the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability
Watch the recorded talk (UT Zoom sign-in required)
Title: The Overlooked Risk of a SETI Success
MG&G Field Course Presentation DayMay, 30 2025Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PMLocation: ROC 1.603 Each Maymester, the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) offers a field course designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the collection and processing of marine geological and geophysical data. The course covers high-resolution air gun and streamer seismic reflection, CHIRP seismic reflection, multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar, sediment coring, grab sampling and the sedimentology of resulting seabed samples (e.g., core description, grain size analysis, x-radiography, etc.). Scientific and technical experts in each of the techniques first provide students with several days of classroom instruction. The class then travels to the Gulf Coast for a week of at-sea field work and on-shore lab work. Two small research vessels are used concurrently: one for multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar, and sediment sampling, and the other for high-resolution seismic reflection and CHIRP sub-bottom profiling. Students rotate daily between the two vessels and lab work. Upon returning to Austin, students work in teams to integrate data and techniques into a final project that examines the geologic history and/or sedimentary processes as typified by a small area of the Gulf Coast continental shelf. Students spend one week learning interpretation methods using industry-standard, state-of-the-art software (Focus, Landmark, Caris, Fledermaus). On the last day, students present their final project to the class and industry sponsor representatives. |