Tag: Antarctica
October 12, 2016
Oldest Known Squawk Box Suggests Dinosaurs Likely Did Not Sing
The oldest known vocal organ of a bird has been found in an Antarctic fossil of a relative of ducks and geese that lived more…
Read MoreMay 19, 2016
Unstable East Antarctic Glacier Has Contributed To Sea Level Rise in the Past
Research published in the journal Nature on May 19 has revealed that vast regions of the Totten Glacier in East Antarctica are fundamentally unstable and…
Read MoreApril 29, 2016
Touring UTIG’s Airplane
By Laura Lindzey, a graduate student at the Jackson School of Geosciences. The post first appeared on her blog. Don Blankenship’s research group at UTIG has…
Read MoreMarch 16, 2015
The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse.
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet…
Read MoreMarch 16, 2015
East Antarctica Melting could be Explained by Oceanic Gateways
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) in the Jackson School of Geosciences have discovered two seafloor gateways that could…
Read MoreAugust 13, 2014
2010 Chilean earthquake causes icequakes in Antarctica: Technology allows scientists to hear seismic waves as they arrived on frozen continent
Seismic events aren’t rare occurrences on Antarctica, where sections of the frozen desert can experience hundreds of micro-earthquakes an hour due to ice deformation. Some…
Read MoreJuly 14, 2013
UT Researchers Find Swamp and Stream Systems Under Antarctic Ice
Austin American-Statesman, July 14, 2013 Featuring: Dusty Schroeder, Don Blankenship, Duncan Young, UTIG A team of University of Texas researchers recently discovered a swamplike system…
Read MoreJuly 13, 2013
Ancient Undersea Volcanoes Off Antarctica Hold Climate Secret
Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2013 Featuring: Ian Dalziel Ancient volcanoes discovered deep in the ocean off Antarctica may explain a climate mystery critical to…
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