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Doctoral Defense: Brandon Shuck
Start:July 1, 2021 at 9:00 am
End:
July 1, 2021 at 11:00 am
Location:
JGB 4.102
Please join the Jackson School of Geosciences for the final doctoral examination for BRANDON SHUCK on JULY 1, 2021; 9:00AM; JGB 4.102 (Barrow Family Conference Room) and via Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “Mechanisms Of Lithospheric Failure During Late Continental Rifting And Early Subduction” was supervised by Dr. Harm van Avendonk and Dr. Sean Gulick.
Committee members include: Donna Shillington, Nathan L Bangs, Thorsten Becker and Luc L Lavier
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/4732830175
Doctoral Defense: Evan Ramos
Start:July 1, 2021 at 10:00 am
End:
July 1, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Location:
JGB3.222
Please join the Jackson School of Geosciences for the final doctoral examination for EVAN RAMOS has been scheduled for JULY 1, 2021; 10:00AM; JGB3.222 and Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “Toward A Mechanistic Understanding Of Silicate Weathering And Li Transfer Across Landscapes, Past And Present” was supervised by Dr. Jaime Barnes and Dr. Dan Breecker.
Committee members include: Brady Foreman, Joel P Johnson and Daniella M Rempe
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/95141295703
Doctoral Defense: Wen-Ying Wu
Start:July 21, 2021 at 9:00 am
End:
July 21, 2021 at 11:00 am
Please join the Jackson School of Geosciences for the final doctoral examination for WEN-YING WU has been scheduled for JULY 21, 2021; 9:00AM; JGB3.222 and Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “Advancing the Application of Remote Sensing to Improve Land ?Surface Modeling” was supervised by Dr. Zong-Liang Yang.
Committee members include: Bridget R Scanlon, Bayani Cardenas and Daniella M Rempe
Doctoral Defense: Natasha Sekhon
Start:July 23, 2021 at 10:30 am
End:
July 23, 2021 at 12:30 pm
The final doctoral examination for NATASHA SEKHON has been scheduled for JULY 23, 2021; 10:30AM; Zoom (see below).
The PhD project “A monitoring and 20th stalagmite study from a shallow cave in New Mexico elucidating climate controls on geochemical variability with insight into stalagmite suitability for paleoclimate reconstructions ” was supervised by Dr. Jay Banner and Dr. Dan Breecker.
Committee members include: Bryan Black, Yuko M Okumura, Timothy M Shanhan
Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91054608576
The defense is open to all members of the University community and the public.
Hot Science At Home "To Err is Human"
Start:July 23, 2021 at 7:00 pm
End:
July 23, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Location:
Online (YouTube and Facebook)
Contact:
Didey Montoya, didey@austin.utexas.edu, 5124714211
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Much of what we experience in our lives each day is entirely forgotten. So what leads our brains to store experiences in memory that help us navigate the world? Perhaps the most important signal is mistake-making. Formal schooling unfortunately conveys the message that becoming more skillful means making fewer mistakes, which is demonstrably untrue. Come and learn how mistakes lead to advantageous changes to our memories and are the key to learning.
Professor Bob Duke is a former studio musician and public school music teacher whose research at UT focuses on human learning and behavior. Along with Art Markman, he co-hosts the NPR program and podcast Two Guys on Your Head, produced by KUT Radio in Austin.
Time: 7:00 – 7:40 p.m.
The event will be streamed live through our Facebook and YouTube channels and will include a Q&A session. Additional information is available at www.hotsciencecooltalks.org.
DeFord Lecture | Mattia PistoneMarch, 05 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 Exploring Gas Accumulation in Magmas: Bridging the Gap Between Field and Laboratory Measurements by Mattia Pistone, associate professor at the University of Georgia Abstract: Gas accumulation in magmas prior to eruptions represents a key process that controls the explosivity of volcanoes. The efficiency of accumulating gas in a magma is modulated by chemical and physical parameters such as magma ascent rate, modal proportions of melt, minerals, and exsolved fluids in the magma, and geochemistry of mafic to felsic magmas and associated fluids. Currently, we deal with an interesting conundrum of data acquisition. In the field, we largely monitor and study mafic volcanoes because they degas and erupt more frequently than their felsic counterparts. Vice versa, in the lab, we often study pre-eruptive gas accumulation in felsic magmas that are commonly associated to the most hazardous volcanism. In this case, lab experiments are often conducted using felsic materials because they are thick/viscous (all the phases including gas bubbles are efficiently trapped), undercooled (“slow and lazy” in crystallising), and geochemically evolved (their composition does not change much during the experiment). In this seminar, I want to explore this dichotomy of lessons that we gain from natural volcanoes and laboratory. Based on my research in the lab and in the field, I will showcase my attempt in filling the existing gap in knowledge between mafic and felsic systems by exploring: 1) how gas bubbles influence magma transport, and 2) how gas geochemistry modulates the level of isolated porosity in magmas. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 06 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Gabriel Pasquet, in person. Topic: Natural hydrogen, field survey, Texas |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Andrew HoffmanMarch, 06 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |
DeFord Lecture | Sarah KatzMarch, 12 2026Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMLocation: JGB 2.324 Andean Climate and Hydrology over the Last 650,000 Years: Insights from Lake Junín, Peru by Sarah Katz, postdoctoral associate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the hydroclimate history of the central Peruvian Andes over the last 650,000 years. Specifically, I will show how carbonate clumped and triple oxygen isotope measurements from Lake Junín (11°S) sediment cores can be used to reconstruct ancient monsoon dynamics, local water balance and temperatures, and sediment transport in the basin. First, I will present evidence linking South American Monsoon intensity to Earth’s orbital configuration during two recent interglacial periods. Further, I will show that these forcings directly impact local water balance, linking tropical hydroclimate to global climate forcings. Second, we will examine the glacial intervals of the core when carbonate isotope stratigraphy is compromised by detrital carbonates; I will present a framework for using clumped isotopes to extract meaningful paleoclimate information from the Junín cores and other carbonate archives. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 13 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Zoltan Sylvester in person. Topic: Accreting, fast and slow: Geometry, kinematics and sediment load of sinuous channels |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Craig MartinMarch, 13 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |
2026 Solar Climate Intervention Impacts on Extremes (SCI-EX) WorkshopMarch, 25 2026Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 About the 2026 Solar Climate Intervention Impacts on Extremes WorkshopThe first SCI-EX workshop will focus on impacts on extreme climate events under stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). The goal of the workshop is to explore and develop internal and external collaborations to expand and advance solar climate intervention research at UT Austin. The workshop will be organized around three main topics, including (1) Downscaled and high-resolution SCI simulations, (2) Cascading and compounding extremes under SCI, and (3) S2S2D predictability under SCI. We will also have speakers that will be discussing ethical and funding considerations of SCI research. For more information, including how to submit an abstract, please reach out to Danielle Touma. |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar SeriesMarch, 27 2026Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLocation: BEG VR Room 1.116C BEG Seminar presented by Dr. Daniella Rempe (EPS UT Austin) in person Topic: Hydrology, near surface environment |
UTIG Spring Seminar Series 2026: Rachel AbercrombieMarch, 27 2026Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: UTIG Seminar Conference Room - 10601 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196/ROC 1.603 More details on this seminar will be available soon. |