Media Releases
July 14, 2022
Coastal Glacier Retreat Linked to Climate Change
More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what’s triggering the large-scale retreat has been difficult to pin down because…
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June 27, 2022
Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Most Recent Earthquakes in West Texas
Since 2009, earthquakes have been rapidly rising in the Delaware Basin – a prolific oil-producing region in West Texas and New Mexico. According to a…
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June 15, 2022
Climate Change is Coming for Your Ketchup
Climate change is on track to interfere with tomato production – and could be especially bad news for fans of ketchup, pizza sauce and other…
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June 14, 2022
River Belt Discovery Helps Scientists Understand Ancient Rivers
Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened…
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June 7, 2022
UT Paleontologists Create Fossilization Board Game
A new board game created by paleontologists at The University of Texas at Austin challenges players to protect, preserve, and unearth Jurassic fossils – and…
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June 1, 2022
Research Shows How Gulf of Mexico Escaped Ancient Mass Extinction
An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf of…
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May 24, 2022
New UT Model Explores Connection Between Pressure and Earthquakes in Far West Texas
A model created at The University of Texas at Austin is providing the most comprehensive look yet at subsurface pressure buildup associated with wastewater injection…
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May 19, 2022
This Graduate Visualizes the Past to Create His Future
When Michael Chiappone hikes through a Texas landscape, he imagines vegetation greening to include conifers and ferns and stars shifting to a pattern not seen in the night sky…
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May 13, 2022
Goudge Named NASA Early Career Award Winner
The Jackson School of Geosciences’ Timothy Goudge is among the five scientists selected by NASA’s Planetary Science Division to receive an Early Career Award. The…
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May 9, 2022
Newly Discovered Lake May Hold Secret to Antarctic Ice Sheet’s Rise and Fall
Scientists investigating the underside of the world’s largest ice sheet in East Antarctica have discovered a city-size lake whose sediments might contain a history of…
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July 14, 2022
Coastal Glacier Retreat Linked to Climate Change
More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what’s triggering the large-scale retreat has been difficult to pin down because…
Read MoreJune 27, 2022
Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Most Recent Earthquakes in West Texas
Since 2009, earthquakes have been rapidly rising in the Delaware Basin – a prolific oil-producing region in West Texas and New Mexico. According to a…
Read MoreJune 15, 2022
Climate Change is Coming for Your Ketchup
Climate change is on track to interfere with tomato production – and could be especially bad news for fans of ketchup, pizza sauce and other…
Read MoreJune 14, 2022
River Belt Discovery Helps Scientists Understand Ancient Rivers
Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened…
Read MoreJune 7, 2022
UT Paleontologists Create Fossilization Board Game
A new board game created by paleontologists at The University of Texas at Austin challenges players to protect, preserve, and unearth Jurassic fossils – and…
Read MoreJune 1, 2022
Research Shows How Gulf of Mexico Escaped Ancient Mass Extinction
An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf of…
Read MoreMay 24, 2022
New UT Model Explores Connection Between Pressure and Earthquakes in Far West Texas
A model created at The University of Texas at Austin is providing the most comprehensive look yet at subsurface pressure buildup associated with wastewater injection…
Read MoreMay 19, 2022
This Graduate Visualizes the Past to Create His Future
When Michael Chiappone hikes through a Texas landscape, he imagines vegetation greening to include conifers and ferns and stars shifting to a pattern not seen in the night sky…
Read MoreMay 13, 2022
Goudge Named NASA Early Career Award Winner
The Jackson School of Geosciences’ Timothy Goudge is among the five scientists selected by NASA’s Planetary Science Division to receive an Early Career Award. The…
Read MoreMay 9, 2022
Newly Discovered Lake May Hold Secret to Antarctic Ice Sheet’s Rise and Fall
Scientists investigating the underside of the world’s largest ice sheet in East Antarctica have discovered a city-size lake whose sediments might contain a history of…
Read More