Tag: Surface Hydrologic Processes
February 10, 2015
UT, LCRA teaming with NASA on $900 million satellite
AUSTIN — The University of Texas and the Lower Colorado River Authority will be utilizing data from a new NASA satellite to better forecast droughts…
Read MoreJanuary 31, 2015
Drought and Flood Prediction Gets Boost from New Texas Network and NASA Satellite
A new network of underground sensors in the Texas Hill Country will arm those responsible for managing the state’s finite water supply with vital…
Read MoreJanuary 23, 2015
A 3-D View of the Greenland Ice Sheet Opens Window on Ice History
Scientists using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA’s Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2014
Mussels’ Impact on Texas Water Supply Can Be Mitigated
Texas water supplies, currently stressed by drought, could be further affected by the federal listing of five freshwater mussel species under the Endangered Species Act,…
Read MoreOctober 22, 2014
Lifeless Waters
Analysis reveals how limited natural buffering of Mississippi River pollution is likely contributing to Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” By John Williams “For whatever we…
Read MoreOctober 1, 2014
Evolving Plumbing System Beneath Greenland Slows Ice Sheet as Summer Progresses
A team led by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics has for the first time directly observed multiple parts of…
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2014
Hi-tech Tools Can Better Predict Droughts, Flood
In 2012, professor Zong-Liang Yang was in the Netherlands speaking at a workshop on extreme weather. It was the year after the worst recorded single-year…
Read MoreJune 10, 2014
Researchers Find Major West Antarctic Glacier Melting from Geothermal Sources
AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it’s…
Read MoreMay 12, 2014
Hydrologists Find Mississippi River’s Buffering System for Nitrates is Overwhelmed
A new method of measuring the interaction of surface water and groundwater along the length of the Mississippi River network adds fresh evidence that the…
Read MoreJanuary 6, 2014
Water Forum Highlighted Challenges and Opportunities of Ongoing Drought
As the bitter 2011 Texas drought stretched on into its third year, the Jackson School of Geoscience’s Center for Integrated Earth System Science (CIESS)…
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