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February 25, 2013
Rising to the Top: Fulbright Scholar Explores Undersea Gas Vents
Andrew Smith studies undersea gas vents, large volcano-like features on the seafloor that spew plumes of oil and gas into the ocean. Scientists have long…
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Researchers Propose New Way to Probe Earthโs Deep Interior
Researchers from Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than…
Read MoreJanuary 2, 2013
Untangling Knots: Whitney Behr Tackles Some Tough Structural Problems
Itโs the nightmare scenario: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake begins at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault and the rupture continues moving northwest 200…
Read MoreDecember 20, 2012
How to Build a Smarter Rock
Joel Johnson of the Jackson School has crafted metal rocks to mimic a natural stone’s shape and density, and then inserted custom-made electronics to measure…
Read MoreNovember 27, 2012
Captain Geo: Leon Long’s Five Decades as Teacher, Scientist, and Mentor
The crowd of about 75 people milled about beneath the giant Texas pterosaur skeleton in the stately polished marble main hall of the Texas Memorial…
Read MoreNovember 15, 2012
El Tatio: Science for Society
Last year, Suzanne Pierce was selected as one of the first 20 Fulbright Nexus Scholars, a group of early to mid-career experts working to bridge…
Read MoreNovember 12, 2012
Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Fish
Marine scientists are using “earthstones” from Southern flounder to determine the age, growth history and migration patterns of fish. Nate Miller’s geochemical analyses are a…
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
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 stateโs worst single-year drought in history, is that it ended up being the…
Read MoreAugust 6, 2012
Saving the Delta: Research generates new optimism about saving the Mississippi Delta from erosion
With the rapid disappearance of its protective buffer of wetlands, New Orleans is becoming more vulnerable to storms every year. But recent research has revealed…
Read MoreMedia Releases
The @guardian's @dpcarrington was with @UTGeophysics this summer reporting on a pioneering @UTAustin-led mission to explore Greenland's glaciers underwater.
Read his report here:
With @WHOI @UFGeology @RutgersDMCS @MarineInst @UTexasResearch
.@business spoke with the Jackson School's Jay Banner about how climate change and population growth are taking a toll on Texas' water.
โDemand goes way up, supply goes way down, which is not a sustainable future for Texas water resources,โ Banner said.
In the stacks:
The role of women in the history of geology / edited by C. V. Burek and B. Higgs. Geological Society, 2007. #geology #geologists #history