Tag: hydrology
September 22, 2023
Daniella Rempe Honored for Early Career Contributions to Science and Education
Daniella Rempe, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, has received the American Geophysical Union’s Early Career Award…
Read MoreDecember 27, 2021
JSG Professor Turns Pandemic Setback to Research Project
Bayani Cardenas is a geoscientist and a diver. A professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, Cardenas studies how water interacts with the environment. He often does it by suiting up and diving in to collect data himself.
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2021
Mars’ Surface Shaped by Fast and Furious Floods from Overflowing Craters
On Earth, river erosion is usually a slow-going process. But on Mars, massive floods from overflowing crater lakes had an outsized role in shaping the…
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2021
Region of ‘Super Corals’ Discovered
In 2019, a hydrology professor at The University of Texas at Austin set out on a research project to see if he could identify harmful…
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 MoreAugust 18, 2021
Tracking Water Storage Shows Options for Improving Water Management During Floods and Droughts
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a balance sheet for water across the United States – tracking total water storage in…
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2020
Deep Diving Scientists Discover Bubbling CO2 Hotspot
Diving 200 feet under the ocean surface to conduct scientific research can lead to some interesting places. For University of Texas at Austin Professor Bayani…
Read MoreOctober 14, 2019
NOAH Model Captures Major Hydrological Patterns in China, Study Finds
The Noah land surface model with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) simulates the major spatiotemporal patterns of hydrological variables in China, a vast country characterized by complex…
Read MoreMay 13, 2019
Storm Water Banking Could Help Texas Manage Floods and Droughts
Massive, destructive floods such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 are a stark reality in Texas, but so are prolonged ground-cracking droughts. In…
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2018
Hidden “Rock Moisture” Could Explain Forest Surviving Drought
Research conducted by The University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley has found that a little-studied, underground layer of rock can hold…
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