Tag: student research
July 2, 2024
New Imaging Technique Uses Earth’s Warped Surface to Reveal Rocky Interior
Surface mapping technology such as GPS, radar and laser scanning have long been used to measure features on the Earth’s surface. Now, a new computational…
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Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealand’s Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
Researchers have discovered a sea’s worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau that’s now deep in the Earth’s…
Read MoreMay 9, 2022
Newly Discovered Lake May Hold Secret to Antarctic Ice Sheet’s Rise and Fall
Scientists investigating the underside of the world’s largest ice sheet in East Antarctica have discovered a city-size lake whose sediments might contain a history of…
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UT Graduate Student Research Solves Plate Tectonics Mystery
The longstanding enigma of how tectonic plates can break Earth’s rock-hard shell may have been solved by a recent graduate student at The University of…
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 MoreMay 24, 2021
Slow Slip’ Earthquakes’ Hidden Mechanics Revealed
Slow slip earthquakes, a type of slow motion tremor, have been detected at many of the world’s earthquake hotspots, including those found around the Pacific…
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College Brings Adventure — Including Research on Mars
Graduating senior Irineo Sanchez researched water flow on Mars as part of the JSG Honors Program.
Read MoreMarch 8, 2021
Congratulations to 10th Annual Student Research Symposium Winners
Jackson School Community, Thank you to everyone who took part in the 10th Annual Student Research Symposium on Saturday. It was exciting to learn first-hand about…
Read MoreFebruary 3, 2018
Student Science on Display
You wouldn’t know it by listening to Raeann Garcia adeptly explain her research on the Lower Ordovician Knox Group, but the undergraduate was feeling a…
Read MoreFebruary 10, 2016
Honing in on Science at the 5th Annual Student Research Symposium
A crucial skill for scientists is the ability to communicate their work to others. Conversations can turn into collaborations, questions can lead to surprising answers,…
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