Tag: energy
March 25, 2025
UT Austin Hosting Inaugural Critical Minerals Workshop
Registration has opened for the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences’ inaugural North American Workshop on Critical Mineral Research, Development, and Education….
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UT Names New Leader of Bureau of Economic Geology
Lorena Moscardelli has been named the next director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and state geologist of Texas. Moscardelli takes over the leadership role…
Read MoreDecember 3, 2024
Texas is Energy
What starts here powers the world. The Jackson School is leading the way in energy research at UT.
Read MoreDecember 2, 2024
New Research Provides an Improved Understanding of Earthquake Hazards in the Permian Basin
A new collection of published papers offers the most detailed and comprehensive breakdown yet of how water injected into the Permian Basin during oil and…
Read MoreNovember 19, 2024
Enormous Cache of Rare Earth Elements Hidden Inside Coal Ash Waste
Coal ash — the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel — has been piling up across the United States for decades….
Read MoreNovember 11, 2024
New Program Helps Texas Schools Teach Carbon Capture
When Cynthia Hopkins returned to her 7th grade science classroom in Corpus Christi this fall she had a little something extra in her toolkit —…
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2024
Jackson School Joins KBH Energy Center
Adding another layer of expertise to the pursuit of energy security, the Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center has announced a new partnership with the Jackson School of Geosciences….
Read MoreAugust 12, 2023
Exploring One of the Largest Carbon Caches on Earth
Today is my last day on the Helix Q4000, the offshore platform where The University of Texas at Austin-led science team is sampling and studying the methane hydrate reservoir system below. I’ve been out here a week – and it’s gone by fast! This blog isn’t the last of my writing about the…
Read MoreAugust 11, 2023
Holding Tight
Last night, Peter Flemings, the mission’s lead scientist and a professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, called the science team together. He wanted to make sure everyone was up to speed on the science and the mission progress – which had picked up…
Read MoreAugust 10, 2023
Cutting Core, Seeing Signposts
Earlier this week, I watched a core sample slide into the processing lab for the first time, the drill crew pushing it through a hole cut into the side of the shipping container that houses the lab. Surrounded by a clear plastic tube, the core…
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