Tag: Environmental Science Institute
January 23, 2024
Geosciences Professor Honored With Top Teaching Award
AUSTIN, Texas — Jay Banner, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, has been awarded the Robert Foster Cherry…
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Texas Needs to Start Preparing for Possibility of 10-Year Megadroughts
Texans need to prepare for a near future that is hotter, drier and fraught with more water extremes, according to scientists. But preparation isn’t a…
Read MoreMay 29, 2020
Austin-Area Water and Wastewater Pipes Feeding Bull Creek
If it weren’t for leaky city pipes and irrigation runoff, it’s possible far less water would be flowing through popular Austin swimming holes. A recent…
Read MoreMay 12, 2017
Stalagmites and Rodent Bones Record Signs of Ice Age Texas
By Monica Kortsha Inner Space Cavern is a fossil hot spot. Thanks to sinkholes that exposed the cave to the surface during the last Ice…
Read MoreOctober 5, 2015
Banner Chosen as 2015 Kappe Lecturer
Jay Banner, a professor in The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences and director of the UT Austin Environmental Science Institute, has…
Read MoreApril 5, 2013
Expert Ties Sixth Century Global Cooling Catastrophe to Volcano
American paleoecologist Dr. Robert Dull believes he’s pretty much solved the mystery behind a catastrophic global climate change event from the sixth century. As the…
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Are the cat fossils from ocelots, margays, or something more mysterious?
After recovering small cat fossils from Natural Bridge Caverns doctoral student John Moretti is closing in on answers... #FossilFriday
https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/10/scientists-closing-in-on-answers-about-lost-prehistoric-cats-of-natural-bridge-caverns/