JSG News
July 25, 2017
Bakken Play Analysis Reported by Bureau of Economic Geology
AUSTIN, Texas — The Bureau of Economic Geology has concluded a comprehensive study of the Bakken unconventional resource in North Dakota and Montana and found…
Read MoreJuly 17, 2017
Fossil Site Shows Impact of Early Jurassic’s Low Oxygen Oceans
Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into…
Read MoreJuly 5, 2017
Calm Lakes on Titan Could Mean Smooth Landing for Future Space Probes
The lakes of liquid methane on Saturn’s moon, Titan, are perfect for paddling but not for surfing. New research led by The University of Texas…
Read MoreJuly 5, 2017
Ancient Animal Thought to be First Air Breather on Land Loses Claim to Fame
Some good scientific sleuthing by an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin has helped rewrite one of the earliest chapters in the planet’s…
Read MoreJune 23, 2017
Jackson School Hosts International Laser Ablation Meeting
A who’s who of laser ablation and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry converged on Austin in May to share knowledge about this powerful analytical technology….
Read MoreJune 14, 2017
UTCT Hosts First North American ToScA Symposium
For the past 20 years, The University of Texas at Austin’s High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility, or UTCT, has been hard at work in the…
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