Tag: Climate

December 5, 2024

Quantifying Chaos

October 16, 2024

Students and Faculty Members Celebrate New Climate System Science Major

In September, The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences held a party in celebration of its newest undergraduate major: climate system science. Students and faculty…

October 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,…

September 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…

August 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…

August 10, 2023

Cutting Core, Seeing Signposts

Earlier this week, I watched a core sample slide into the processing lab for the first time, the drill crew pushing it through a hole cut into the side of the shipping container that houses the lab. Surrounded by a clear plastic tube, the core…

August 8, 2023

Progress from Delay

Over the past four days at sea, the science team has faced the following issues: The “T2P” – a temperature and pressure probe refined for the methane hydrate mission – was shelved after free-falling 6,500 feet to the bottom of the seafloor during a test run. The probe was supposed to…

August 4, 2023

Methane Hydrate: The Mission Continues

The University of Texas at Austin has returned to the Gulf of Mexico to lead a Department of Energy-funded mission to sample and study methane…

March 2, 2023

Ocean Surface Tipping Point Could Accelerate Climate Change

The oceans help to limit global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide emissions. But scientists have discovered that intense warming in the future could lessen…

October 25, 2022

Climate Change is Closing Daily Temperature Gap, Clouds Could be the Cause

Climate change is shrinking the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low in many parts of the world. The gap between the…