July 13, 2026
Zong-Liang Yang Q&A: A Better Way to Forecast Floods
Jackson School Professor Zong-Liang Yang has spent his career modeling the climate. After the devastating floods that struck Texas Hill Country on July 4, 2025, killing at least 139 people, he has become an advocate for a new approach to flood prediction.
Read MoreJuly 13, 2026
Hydrology Professor Developing Simple Outdoor Flood Alarm to Save Lives
In the aftermath of the devastating July 4, 2025 floods that took 139 lives in Central Texas, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin set…
Read MoreJuly 1, 2026
Researchers Find Contaminated Water in Austin Neighborhood
For over a decade, residents of Austin’s Colony, a neighborhood in an unincorporated area of southeast Austin outside of the city service area, have voiced…
Read MoreJune 26, 2026
New Database for Subsurface Energy Storage Could be Boon for Natural Gas Industry
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have produced a new analysis of underground natural gas storage sites around the country. The analysis can…
Read MoreJune 25, 2026
The Andes Mountains May Have Grown Faster Than Previously Thought
The conventional story of how the Andes Mountains formed is one of tectonic plate-powered mountain building, with the range rising slowly, steadily and in-sync with…
Read MoreJune 24, 2026
Jackson School Class Helped Model July 4 Storm and Found That Rainfall was Slightly Suppressed
Last fall, a group of 12 students huddled around their laptops in a dark room in the Jackson School of Geosciences building. Their screens, which…
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