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Jackson School of Geosciences researchers made science news headlines and served as expert sources for news stories across the state and the world. Check out a few of the highlights.
LEFT: KXAN, Researchers in Austin Have Found That Microplastics Are Collecting Everywhere in Central Texas’ Waterways | Featuring Cornel Olariu, Research Scientist and Lecturer
RIGHT: CURIOSITY STREAM, Earthquake research at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is the focus of a documentary called “Forecasting the Big One.” The film features UTIG director Demian Saffer and Bureau of Economic Geology researcher Chas Bolton, as well as graduate students Kaitlin Schaible and Peter Miller (pictured here during filming).
CNNHidden Molten Rock Layer Found Beneath Earth’s Tectonic Plates “When we think about something melting, we intuitively think that the melt must play a big role in the material’s viscosity‚ but what we found is that even where the melt fraction is quite high, its effect on mantle flow is very minor.” Junlin Hua, Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Earth and Feb. 2, 2023 |
The Daily TexanUT Researcher Launches Water Resources Podcast to Discuss Global Water Issues “People may not have time to read (scientific) papers, so I thought this was a nice way to communicate what people are doing (to tackle) different critical issues.” Bridget Scanlon, Senior Research Scientist Bureau of Economic Geology April 16, 2023 |
Texas MonthlyUT Scientists Discovered a Beaver Fossil and Named It After Buc-ee’s “We have somewhere in the neighborhood of over a million fossils in this building…We’ve got paleontologists coming here like kids in a candy store.” Matthew Brown, Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory March 28, 2023 |
LEFT: THE NEW YORKER, Journey to the Doomsday Glacier | The New Yorker’s Nov. 28, 2022, issue featured a dispatch on geophysics research in Antarctica from David W. Brown, a writer and field-research associate sponsored by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. The article features Jamin Greenbaum, who was then a UTIG research associate and a scientist at the Scripps Institution of
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RIGHT: KXAN, Salt Could Be Key Ingredient for Clean Energy Transition, UT Researchers Say | Featuring Lorena Moscardelli, Director of the State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery Program; Oliver Duffy, Research scientist; and Ander Martinez-Doñate, Postdoctoral Researcher
Houston Public MediaBenefits, Feasibility of Geothermal Energy in Texas Examined in New Study “The technology that is emerging now, and we’re in the prototype stage on, would allow us to drill, for instance, five kilometers — about three miles deep — under Houston, and extract the heat and generate power.” Ken Wisian, Associate Director, Environmental Division Bureau of Economic Geology Jan. 30, 2023
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Midland Reporter-TelegramInvestigator: Number of Permian Quakes Trend Downward “Operators and regulators are adapting, using data and trends successfully.” Peter Hennings, Principal Investigator for the Center for Integrated Seismicity Research Bureau of Economic Geology April 5, 2023 |
New ScientistShards of Pure Ice Might Snow Upwards Beneath the Ice Shell of Europa “At the bottom of the ice shelf it could be pretty mushy…We have actually seen protists in these environments on Earth, which hints that these might be good environments to look for life — assuming we can get to them.” Natalie Wolfenbarger, Graduate Research Assistant University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Aug. 19, 2022 |
NPRStudy Shows the Potential Consequences of Climate Change for the Ocean Food Web “So you just kind of have pages of the book of life. The more sediment you dig up, the more kind of pages you’re opening as you go down.” Adam Woodhouse, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Texas Institute for Geophysics March 8, 2023 |
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