Tag: Department
March 5, 2025
Researchers Quantify the Way Rivers Bend, Opening Up the Possibility for Identifying Origins of Channels on Other Planets
Whether it’s rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth…
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2025
New Method for Measuring Groundwater Shows California’s Aquifers Remain Depleted
The greater Los Angeles area has long been subject of intense seismographic monitoring. A network of highly sensitive seismometers peppers the region on a constant…
Read MoreMay 15, 2024
Trees on UT’s Campus Endure Droughts With Help From Leaky Pipes
Even in dry times, Waller Creek on The University of Texas at Austin campus is never without water. That’s because a significant portion of the…
Read MoreApril 24, 2024
Winners of Spring 2024 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Awards
Dozens of undergraduate students, graduate students, professors and staff members of the Jackson School’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences were recognized on Tuesday, April…
Read MoreMarch 17, 2015
CO2 Increase Can Intensify Future Droughts in Tropics, Study Suggests
AUSTIN, Texas — A new study suggests that increases in atmospheric CO2 could intensify extreme droughts in tropical and subtropical regions — such as Australia, the…
Read MoreJanuary 6, 2014
Water Forum Highlighted Challenges and Opportunities of Ongoing Drought
As the bitter 2011 Texas drought stretched on into its third year, the Jackson School of Geoscience’s Center for Integrated Earth System Science (CIESS)…
Read MoreDecember 31, 2013
Extinction Detective: Rowan Martindale Investigates the Fates of Ancient Reefs
Growing up amid the crisp, cold landscape of the Canadian Rockies, Rowan Martindale’s family liked to vacation in tropical environs with warm waters. As a…
Read MoreNovember 8, 2013
Four Keys: Jay Banner Finds Balance in Teaching and Research
When Jay Banner accepted his first faculty position, teaching was just something he had to do so he could do what he really loved—research. In…
Read MoreNovember 8, 2013
Former Graduate Student Redraws Family Tree of Extinct Crocodile-like Animals
Michelle Stocker (PhD ’13), former graduate student in The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, has dramatically rearranged the evolutionary tree for…
Read MoreNovember 1, 2013
The Miracle of Flight
Nobody had any idea just how gigantic a pterosaur could be until the spring of 1971. Douglas A. Lawson, MA ’72, was a 22-year-old graduate…
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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
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