Tag: Climate
July 9, 2013
Climate change’s heat intensifies drought in the USA
USA Today, July 9, 2013 Featuring: J.P. Nicot Texas’ current drought is caused by changes in ocean circulation patterns such as La Nina, anthropogenic climate…
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Scientists Image Vast Subglacial Water System Underpinning West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
AUSTIN, Texas — In a development that will help predict potential sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists from The University of Texas…
Read MoreJune 2, 2013
Rising Sea Level Tied to Faster Melt
Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2013 Featuring: Clark Wilson Accelerated melting of polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers was the driving factor behind a rise…
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Scientists Launch Ocean Expedition to Study Climate Change and Mountain Building in Gulf of Alaska
An international team of 34 scientists sets sail today aboard the scientific ocean drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution to collect sediments in the Gulf of Alaska and…
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Expert Ties Sixth Century Global Cooling Catastrophe to Volcano
American paleoecologist Dr. Robert Dull believes he’s pretty much solved the mystery behind a catastrophic global climate change event from the sixth century. As the…
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Small is Beautiful: A New Tool is Helping Identify Potential CO2 Storage Sites off the Texas Coast
This past summer, a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin completed the first of a series of expeditions in the Gulf…
Read MoreDecember 20, 2012
Opening the Black Box: Kevan Moffett Works at the Intersection of Land, Water and Life
With her research interests and enthusiasm flowing forth like a raging river when she speaks, it’s no surprise that Kevan Moffett studies the dynamic role…
Read MoreNovember 14, 2012
Changes in Sea Surface Temperature Patterns Caused 60-Year Slowdown of Walker Circulation
Scientists have discovered the cause for an observed slowdown in the Walker Circulation (WC) over the past 60 years, and in the process boosted their…
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Linking Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change
Hurricane Sandy was dubbed a “Super storm” for its unusual formation. Kerry Cook, a climate scientist at the Jackson School, calls it a hybrid that…
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2012
Stress Test: Five Key Lessons (and Challenges) from the Great Texas Drought
Perhaps the only positive thing about the 2011 drought in Texas, the state’s worst single-year drought in history, is that it ended up being the…
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