Tag: Surface Hydrologic Processes
August 7, 2024
Forever Chemical Pollution Can Now Be Tracked
Organofluorine compounds — sometimes called ‘forever chemicals’ — are increasingly turning up in our drinking water, oceans and even human blood, posing a potential threat…
Read MoreSeptember 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 MoreMarch 15, 2023
UT Austin Leads Review of World Water Resources
A recent review study led by The University of Texas at Austin provides an overview of the planet’s freshwater supplies and strategies for sustainably managing…
Read MoreJune 14, 2022
River Belt Discovery Helps Scientists Understand Ancient Rivers
Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened…
Read MoreJune 1, 2022
Research Shows How Gulf of Mexico Escaped Ancient Mass Extinction
An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf of…
Read MoreFebruary 22, 2022
Chris Lowery Earns Top Early Career Scientist Award for Sedimentary Geology
Chris Lowery, a research associate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, has received the James Lee Wilson Award from the Society for Sedimentary…
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 14, 2021
Digging Deeper for Greenhouse Gases
Fractured bedrock in forests is an overlooked source of natural CO2.
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…
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In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, a group of Jackson School scientists headed to Matagorda Beach to study the impact of the destructive storm. 🌊
Research Professor Zoltán Sylvester shares what they found in a field dispatch for our annual Newsletter.
https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/12/surveying-hurricane-beryls-impacts-on-barrier-islands/
🪇 🪩 Happy new year, everyone! Celebrate with us as Yoshi Wada discusses how energy access can resolve water issues via desalination and water reuse! Tune-in here: https://wrp.beg.utexas.edu/node/101
UT researchers find key ingredient for phones and other tech in coal ash.