Media Releases
July 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…
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June 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…
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June 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…
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June 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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June 17, 2026
Jessie Maisano Retires from UTCT Lab After a Legendary 26 Years
When Jessie Maisano walked into The University of Texas at Austin’s geosciences building as a postdoc in January 2000, she was joining an enterprising team…
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June 11, 2026
Gulf Coast Coal Holds Billions in Critical Minerals. But the Economics are Tricky.
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found that there’s a significant amount of rare earth elements trapped in the coal and coal…
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June 5, 2026
Groundwater Availability Faces Big West-East Divide That is Expected to Intensify
Groundwater is a critical resource — but one that can be easily and sometimes irreversibly exhausted. In a study published in the journal Earth’s…
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June 4, 2026
Easily Overlooked Small Wetlands Are a Big Source of Global Methane
Water-logged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world’s largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of wetlands emit this powerful…
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June 3, 2026
The Complicated New Origins of Pangea’s Big Breakup
The Triassic Period ended when a gargantuan amount of molten igneous rock called the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) spewed out of the Earth’s mantle…
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May 21, 2026
Sweet Receives Top Gulf Coast Geology Award
Michael Sweet, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and co-program director of the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) project is the…
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July 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…
Read MoreJune 17, 2026
Jessie Maisano Retires from UTCT Lab After a Legendary 26 Years
When Jessie Maisano walked into The University of Texas at Austin’s geosciences building as a postdoc in January 2000, she was joining an enterprising team…
Read MoreJune 11, 2026
Gulf Coast Coal Holds Billions in Critical Minerals. But the Economics are Tricky.
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found that there’s a significant amount of rare earth elements trapped in the coal and coal…
Read MoreJune 5, 2026
Groundwater Availability Faces Big West-East Divide That is Expected to Intensify
Groundwater is a critical resource — but one that can be easily and sometimes irreversibly exhausted. In a study published in the journal Earth’s…
Read MoreJune 4, 2026
Easily Overlooked Small Wetlands Are a Big Source of Global Methane
Water-logged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world’s largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of wetlands emit this powerful…
Read MoreJune 3, 2026
The Complicated New Origins of Pangea’s Big Breakup
The Triassic Period ended when a gargantuan amount of molten igneous rock called the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) spewed out of the Earth’s mantle…
Read MoreMay 21, 2026
Sweet Receives Top Gulf Coast Geology Award
Michael Sweet, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and co-program director of the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) project is the…
Read More