Tag: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
September 15, 2021
Ketcham Receives Top Thermochronology Prize
Jackson School professor Is honored for his role in making user-friendly thermal history modeling tools.
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2021
Water in Bedrock is Sustaining Trees Across Country
You can’t squeeze water from a rock. But tree roots can — and they’re doing it more frequently than scientists previously thought, with a new study finding that bedrock is a regular source of water…
Read MoreJune 29, 2021
UT Austin Teams Up With City and Community to Fight Extreme Heat in Austin
Austin has hot summers. But that heat isn’t felt the same way across the city, as anyone who has sweltered in a parking lot or…
Read MoreMay 26, 2021
Goudge Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Jackson School of Geosciences Assistant Professor Tim Goudge has been chosen as a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, an international program that supports outstanding early-career researchers…
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2021
Texas Fossil Helps Clarify Alligator Family Tree
Families are complicated. For members of the Alligatoridae family, which includes living caimans and alligators – this is especially true. They are closely related, but…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
Hot or Cold, Weather Alone Has No Significant Effect on COVID-19 Spread
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
Read MoreOctober 7, 2020
Key Indicators Discovered of Climate Change’s Impact on California Water Supply
Determining how climate change is affecting water supplies is difficult in a state like California that swings between floods and droughts, but a new study…
Read MoreOctober 1, 2020
Ice Age Manatees May Have Called Texas Home
Manatees don’t live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a “summer vacation” from Florida…
Read MoreAugust 21, 2020
The Age of the Earth’s Inner Core Revised
By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have improved the estimate of the age of our planet’s…
Read MoreAugust 19, 2020
Fung Named NASA Future Investigator
Jackson School of Geosciences Ph.D. student Samuel Fung has been named a Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST). NASA has…
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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.
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