Tag: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
December 5, 2022
Mark Helper: Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus
By Monica Kortsha For decades, Mark Helper has spent his summers leading students on the Jackson School of Geosciences’ capstone field camp. But he has…
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Richard Kyle: Professor Emeritus
By Alan Gomez Thomas Quintero was out of his element. The Jackson School of Geosciences undergraduate student was winding through a series of dark, cold…
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Clark Wilson: Professor Emeritus
By Kristin Phillips & Monica Kortsha It was the ocean — more specifically, an oceanographer’s slides illuminating a middle school wall six decades ago —…
Read MoreOctober 27, 2022
Study Explores How Tectonic Forces Shape The Andes
Based on their shared geologic history, one would expect the topography of the Andes mountains to be relatively consistent from one end to the other….
Read MoreOctober 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…
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Texas Universities Partner to Study Combined Impact of Flooding and Air Pollution in Beaumont-Port Arthur
Four Texas universities, led by The University of Texas at Austin, have been awarded a grant to establish a new research center to study the…
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Climate Change is Coming for Your Ketchup
Climate change is on track to interfere with tomato production – and could be especially bad news for fans of ketchup, pizza sauce and other…
Read MoreJune 14, 2022
River Belt Discovery Helps Scientists Understand Ancient Rivers
Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened…
Read MoreMay 13, 2022
Goudge Named NASA Early Career Award Winner
The Jackson School of Geosciences’ Timothy Goudge is among the five scientists selected by NASA’s Planetary Science Division to receive an Early Career Award. The…
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Tropical Forests Benefit Less from Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Than Thought
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere has only a small influence on changes in tropical ecosystems despite evidence of enhanced plant…
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FRIDAY: Oceans soak up a vast amount of greenhouse heat. At this week's #UTIGSeminars, Wenbo Wu @WHOI introduces a novel way to track the oceans' potential to absorb heat using seismic waves generated by rumbles in the Earth!
Starts 10:30am CT. Abstract:
https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series/2025/utig-seminar-series-wenbo-wu-whoi/
In California, a record-wet winter helped alleviate a longstanding drought above the ground. But deeper recovery isn’t so simple, according to recent research by the Jackson School’s @ShujuanM.
Read more: https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/02/new-method-for-measuring-groundwater-shows-californias-aquifers-remain-depleted/
Congratulations to the @EuropaClipper Team! NASA Europa Clipper was named among 2024's most innovative, inspiring and important missions at the 2nd Annual @AstroAwardsLive.
UTIG's Krista Soderlund was in Austin, Texas, to receive the award.
📸 @Erdayastronaut
📸 @UTGeophysics