Tag: Bayani Cardenas
September 18, 2024
Cardenas Named 2025 BDL Lecturer
Next year, Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Bayani Cardenas will be going on a world tour – giving talks at institutions around the world as…
Read MoreDecember 27, 2021
JSG Professor Turns Pandemic Setback to Research Project
Bayani Cardenas is a geoscientist and a diver. A professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, Cardenas studies how water interacts with the environment. He often does it by suiting up and diving in to collect data himself.
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2021
Region of ‘Super Corals’ Discovered
In 2019, a hydrology professor at The University of Texas at Austin set out on a research project to see if he could identify harmful…
Read MoreOctober 23, 2020
Coastal Permafrost More Susceptible to Climate Change Than Previously Thought
If you flew from the sea towards the land in the north slope of Alaska, you would cross from the water, over a narrow beach,…
Read MoreJune 8, 2020
Patterns in Permafrost Soils Could Help Climate Change Models
The Arctic covers about 20% of the planet. But almost everything hydrologists know about the carbon-rich soils blanketing its permafrost comes from very few measurements…
Read MoreMarch 20, 2020
Hidden Source of Carbon Found at the Arctic Coast
A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling at a once overlooked contributor to local coastal ecosystems –…
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2020
Deep Diving Scientists Discover Bubbling CO2 Hotspot
Diving 200 feet under the ocean surface to conduct scientific research can lead to some interesting places. For University of Texas at Austin Professor Bayani…
Read MoreDecember 4, 2019
Field Work in Alaska
In summer 2019, Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Bayani Cardenas led members of his lab on field work in Alaska. The team studied groundwater within…
Read MoreApril 16, 2015
For Tropical Island, a Brief Storm Surge Fuels Big Water Problem
Storm surge thrown onshore by tropical systems can kill, destroy property and reshape coastlines. Here’s another negative for the list: Depending on the makeup of…
Read MoreApril 14, 2015
Typhoon Haiyan’s Storm Surge May Contaminate Aquifer for Years
In research of significance to the world’s expanding coastal populations, scientists have found that geology and infrastructure play key roles in determining whether aquifers that…
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