Media Releases
February 24, 2021
Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million…
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February 10, 2021
Student Emergency Funds Available
The Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging for students, depriving many of much needed employment and adding unexpected costs for hardware and software, internet services, new…
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January 15, 2021
Texas Fossil Helps Clarify Alligator Family Tree
Families are complicated. For members of the Alligatoridae family, which includes living caimans and alligators – this is especially true. They are closely related, but…
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January 15, 2021
Researchers Trace Geologic Origins of Gulf of Mexico ‘Super Basin’ Success
The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. The energy super basin’s longevity, whose giant…
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January 1, 2021
Lizard Skull Fossil is New and “Perplexing” Extinct Species
In 2017, while browsing the fossil collections of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, University of Texas at Austin graduate student Simon Scarpetta came across…
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January 1, 2021
‘Big Data’ Enables First Census of Desert Shrub
The creosote is the king of the desert. This scraggly shrub dominates the landscape of the American southwest, creating mini-oases from the harsh heat for…
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January 1, 2021
Hot or Cold, Weather Alone Has No Significant Effect on COVID-19 Spread
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
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January 1, 2021
Greenland ‘Knickpoints’ Could Stall Spread of Glacial Thinning
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
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January 1, 2021
Undergraduate Images Gold to Win “Gold”
It is not often that an undergraduate takes top prize at an academic conference’s Student Showcase. But that is exactly what Marília Ferraz da Costa,…
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December 15, 2020
Jackson School Writer Honored
Jackson School of Geosciences Science Writer Monica Kortsha has won the annual writing award from The University of Texas at Austin’s University Excellence in Communications…
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February 24, 2021
Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million…
Read MoreFebruary 10, 2021
Student Emergency Funds Available
The Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging for students, depriving many of much needed employment and adding unexpected costs for hardware and software, internet services, new…
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2021
Texas Fossil Helps Clarify Alligator Family Tree
Families are complicated. For members of the Alligatoridae family, which includes living caimans and alligators – this is especially true. They are closely related, but…
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2021
Researchers Trace Geologic Origins of Gulf of Mexico ‘Super Basin’ Success
The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. The energy super basin’s longevity, whose giant…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
Lizard Skull Fossil is New and “Perplexing” Extinct Species
In 2017, while browsing the fossil collections of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, University of Texas at Austin graduate student Simon Scarpetta came across…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
‘Big Data’ Enables First Census of Desert Shrub
The creosote is the king of the desert. This scraggly shrub dominates the landscape of the American southwest, creating mini-oases from the harsh heat for…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
Hot or Cold, Weather Alone Has No Significant Effect on COVID-19 Spread
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
Greenland ‘Knickpoints’ Could Stall Spread of Glacial Thinning
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
Undergraduate Images Gold to Win “Gold”
It is not often that an undergraduate takes top prize at an academic conference’s Student Showcase. But that is exactly what Marília Ferraz da Costa,…
Read MoreDecember 15, 2020
Jackson School Writer Honored
Jackson School of Geosciences Science Writer Monica Kortsha has won the annual writing award from The University of Texas at Austin’s University Excellence in Communications…
Read More