Tag: climate change
December 5, 2024
Quantifying Chaos
The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is building global models of Earth’s past to help the insurance industry prepare for the future.
Read MoreNovember 11, 2024
New Program Helps Texas Schools Teach Carbon Capture
When Cynthia Hopkins returned to her 7th grade science classroom in Corpus Christi this fall she had a little something extra in her toolkit —…
Read MoreOctober 2, 2024
Extreme El Niño Events Likely to Increase as World Warms
The most recent ice age peaked around 20,000 years ago and was marked by extensive glaciation and dramatic climate shifts that reshaped Earth’s oceans, landscapes,…
Read MoreSeptember 12, 2024
Discovery About Ice Layer Formation in Ice Sheets Can Improve Sea Level Rise Predictions
A newly discovered mechanism for the flow and freezing of ice sheet meltwater could improve estimates of sea level rise around the globe. Researchers from…
Read MoreAugust 22, 2024
TERMINUS Blog: Frontier Science on a Climate Frontline
The final dispatch from the Jackson School-led mission to study Greenland’s glaciers and their role in future sea level rise.
Read MoreNovember 30, 2023
New Project Investigating How Aerosols Could Affect Climate Change in Near Future
A researcher from The University of Texas at Austin has received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study how changing…
Read MoreSeptember 7, 2023
Project to Tackle Effects of Extreme Climate Unveiled by Doggett, UT and City of Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is leading a federally funded research project with the City of Austin to better understand the impact of extreme…
Read MoreAugust 29, 2023
Rapid Shifts from Drought to Downpour Occurring More Often
New research shows that wild swings from severe drought to heavy rains are becoming more common with climate change in many parts of the world…
Read MoreMarch 29, 2023
Texas Port Partners with UT Scientists to Store its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Scientists at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences are helping the Port of Corpus Christi determine if…
Read MoreMarch 23, 2023
New Mining Technology Uses CO2 as Tool to Access Critical Minerals
A mining technology pioneered by researchers at the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin could reduce the amount of energy…
Read MoreMedia Releases
In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, a group of Jackson School scientists headed to Matagorda Beach to study the impact of the destructive storm. 🌊
Research Professor Zoltán Sylvester shares what they found in a field dispatch for our annual Newsletter.
https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/12/surveying-hurricane-beryls-impacts-on-barrier-islands/
🪇 🪩 Happy new year, everyone! Celebrate with us as Yoshi Wada discusses how energy access can resolve water issues via desalination and water reuse! Tune-in here: https://wrp.beg.utexas.edu/node/101
UT researchers find key ingredient for phones and other tech in coal ash.