Institute for Geophysics | Jackson School of Geosciences

May 11, 2017

To the Gulf … To the Future

This is the first post in a series on the Jackson School-led mission to drill for samples of methane hydrate from under the Gulf of…

April 19, 2017

Glacier Shape Predicts Risk of Thinning

April 17 (UPI) — By analyzing a glacier’s shape, researchers can measure its susceptibility to thinning. Researchers at the University of Texas are using the…

March 28, 2017

After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact, Life Re-Emerged Quickly

THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Life came back surprisingly quickly to the site of the impact that killed the dinosaurs, new research found. When a 6-mile (10…

November 17, 2016

Dino-Killing Asteroid Made Rocks Behave like Liquid and Could Have Provided Habitat for New Life

A study of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out all nonavian dinosaurs and most…

May 26, 2016

Researchers Find Ice Age Record in Mars’ Polar Cap

Scientists using radar data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found a record of the most recent Martian ice age in the planet’s north…

May 19, 2016

Unstable East Antarctic Glacier Has Contributed To Sea Level Rise in the Past

Research published in the journal Nature on May 19 has revealed that vast regions of the Totten Glacier in East Antarctica are fundamentally unstable and…

May 18, 2016

Humans have been causing earthquakes in Texas since the 1920s

Earthquakes triggered by human activity have been happening in Texas since at least 1925, and they have been widespread throughout the state ever since, according…

May 14, 2016