Media Releases
September 15, 2008
Marine Geology & Geophysics Field Course Debuts
In May, the Jackson School debuted the new Marine Geology & Geophysics (MG&G) Field Course, designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate…
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September 15, 2008
Researchers Discover Unexpected Properties of Materials in Lowermost Mantle
Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth’s internal processes, a team of researchers…
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August 18, 2008
The Anti-Greenhouse Gas? Climate Scientist Evaluates Geoengineering Solution to Climate Change
Alan Robock, a professor of environmental science at Rutgers University, sat in a scientific meeting listening to his colleagues explain how global warming might be…
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August 8, 2008
Researcher Details Climate Consequences of “Regional” Nuclear War
You’ve probably heard the term nuclear winter. In the early 1980s, climate scientists using simple computer models discovered that a large scale nuclear war between…
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July 25, 2008
Outdoor Classroom: High Schoolers Get Their Hands on Science
How do you hold the attention of 124 high school students for 5 hours? Oh, and manage to teach them a little science too? That…
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July 25, 2008
Expanding Horizons: Houston Students Embark on Pacific Northwest Adventure
The nation’s largest geoscience pipeline initiative for high school students just got bigger. This summer, for the first time, 9th and 11th grade students from…
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July 24, 2008
Jackson School Hosts Prospective Fort Valley Transfer Students
Eight undergraduate students from Fort Valley State University (FVSU) visited Austin last April to meet students and faculty of the University of Texas at Austin’s…
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July 23, 2008
Advanced Energy Consortium Issues Request for Proposals to Develop Micro- and Nanosensors to Boost Energy Production
The Advanced Energy Consortium, a research consortium managed by the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences,…
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July 3, 2008
Inaugural GeoFORCE Students Complete Odyssey, Prepare for College
Four years and 16,000 miles later, the first 80 southwest Texas high school students to take part in GeoFORCE Texas have completed the summer college…
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September 15, 2008
Marine Geology & Geophysics Field Course Debuts
In May, the Jackson School debuted the new Marine Geology & Geophysics (MG&G) Field Course, designed to provide hands-on instruction for graduate and upper-level undergraduate…
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2008
Researchers Discover Unexpected Properties of Materials in Lowermost Mantle
Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth’s internal processes, a team of researchers…
Read MoreAugust 18, 2008
The Anti-Greenhouse Gas? Climate Scientist Evaluates Geoengineering Solution to Climate Change
Alan Robock, a professor of environmental science at Rutgers University, sat in a scientific meeting listening to his colleagues explain how global warming might be…
Read MoreAugust 8, 2008
Researcher Details Climate Consequences of “Regional” Nuclear War
You’ve probably heard the term nuclear winter. In the early 1980s, climate scientists using simple computer models discovered that a large scale nuclear war between…
Read MoreJuly 25, 2008
Outdoor Classroom: High Schoolers Get Their Hands on Science
How do you hold the attention of 124 high school students for 5 hours? Oh, and manage to teach them a little science too? That…
Read MoreJuly 25, 2008
Expanding Horizons: Houston Students Embark on Pacific Northwest Adventure
The nation’s largest geoscience pipeline initiative for high school students just got bigger. This summer, for the first time, 9th and 11th grade students from…
Read MoreJuly 24, 2008
Jackson School Hosts Prospective Fort Valley Transfer Students
Eight undergraduate students from Fort Valley State University (FVSU) visited Austin last April to meet students and faculty of the University of Texas at Austin’s…
Read MoreJuly 23, 2008
Advanced Energy Consortium Issues Request for Proposals to Develop Micro- and Nanosensors to Boost Energy Production
The Advanced Energy Consortium, a research consortium managed by the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences,…
Read MoreJuly 3, 2008
Inaugural GeoFORCE Students Complete Odyssey, Prepare for College
Four years and 16,000 miles later, the first 80 southwest Texas high school students to take part in GeoFORCE Texas have completed the summer college…
Read More