Tag: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
July 13, 2026
Zong-Liang Yang Q&A: A Better Way to Forecast Floods
Jackson School Professor Zong-Liang Yang has spent his career modeling the climate. After the devastating floods that struck Texas Hill Country on July 4, 2025, killing at least 139 people, he has become an advocate for a new approach to flood prediction.
Read MoreJuly 13, 2026
Hydrology Professor Developing Simple Outdoor Flood Alarm to Save Lives
In the aftermath of the devastating July 4, 2025 floods that took 139 lives in Central Texas, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin set…
Read MoreJune 24, 2026
Jackson School Class Helped Model July 4 Storm and Found That Rainfall was Slightly Suppressed
Last fall, a group of 12 students huddled around their laptops in a dark room in the Jackson School of Geosciences building. Their screens, which…
Read MoreJune 17, 2026
Jessie Maisano Retires from UTCT Lab After a Legendary 26 Years
When Jessie Maisano walked into The University of Texas at Austin’s geosciences building as a postdoc in January 2000, she was joining an enterprising team…
Read MoreJune 4, 2026
Easily Overlooked Small Wetlands Are a Big Source of Global Methane
Water-logged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world’s largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of wetlands emit this powerful…
Read MoreMay 13, 2026
Jackson School Enhancing Fossil Collections in Education and Research
The Jackson School of Geosciences’ two enormous and renowned fossil collections have long been home to millions of eye-catching specimens and have served as critical…
Read MoreMay 1, 2026
Class of 2026 | Q&A: Learn Where They’re Heading Next
There are 67 undergraduates and 51 graduate students set to cross the Jackson School’s commencement stage this Friday. Meet seven of them here.
Read MoreApril 22, 2026
Ben Kligman Leads Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections
Ben Kligman joined the Jackson School of Geosciences earlier this year as the Curator in Charge of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections…
Read MoreApril 22, 2026
Winners of 2026 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Awards
More than 100 students, staff, researchers and faculty members in the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences packed inside Boyd Auditorium…
Read MoreApril 15, 2026
Newly Discovered Coastal Shelf on Mars Could be Best Evidence Yet for Long-Gone Ocean
Scientists have discovered geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried up ocean that once covered a third of the…
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