Tag: University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
August 16, 2024
TERMINUS Blog: Surveying from the Sky
The fifth dispatch from the Jackson School-led mission to study Greenlandโs glaciers and their role in future sea level rise.
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TERMINUS Blog: Robot Meets Glacier
The fourth dispatch from the Jackson School-led mission to study Greenlandโs glaciers and their role in future sea level rise.
Read MoreAugust 12, 2024
TERMINUS Blog: Getting to Greenland
The first dispatch from the Jackson School-led mission to study Greenland’s glaciers and their role in future sea level rise.
Read MoreAugust 7, 2024
Forever Chemical Pollution Can Now Be Tracked
Organofluorine compounds โ sometimes called ‘forever chemicals’ โ are increasingly turning up in our drinking water, oceans and even human blood, posing a potential threat…
Read MoreJuly 31, 2024
Scientists Set Sail to Study Greenland Glaciers from Underwater
The University of Texas at Austin has embarked on a mission to explore the underwater edges of Greenlandโs coastal glaciers to learn more about future…
Read MoreOctober 30, 2023
UT-Led Aerial Surveys Reveal Ancient Landscape Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Long before Antarctica froze over, rivers carved valleys through mountains in the continentโs east. Millions of years later, researchers have discovered a remnant of this…
Read MoreOctober 25, 2023
Scientists Isolate Early-Warning Tremor Pattern in Lab-Made Earthquakes
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have successfully isolated a pattern of lab-made โforeshockโ tremors. The finding offers hope that future earthquakes could…
Read MoreOctober 4, 2023
Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealandโs Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
Researchers have discovered a seaโs worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau thatโs now deep in the Earthโs…
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2023
UT Austinโs Demian Saffer Named AGU Fellow
Demian Saffer, the director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has beenย named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The distinction…
Read MoreAugust 5, 2023
The Stuff of Life at Sea
The mission to recover methane hydrates has scientists set on recovering core samples of the substance from over 1,000 feet beneath the seafloor. To actually reach these samples requires the science team to live and work aboard a specialized…
Read MoreMedia Releases
The @guardian's @dpcarrington was with @UTGeophysics this summer reporting on a pioneering @UTAustin-led mission to explore Greenland's glaciers underwater.
Read his report here:
With @WHOI @UFGeology @RutgersDMCS @MarineInst @UTexasResearch
.@business spoke with the Jackson School's Jay Banner about how climate change and population growth are taking a toll on Texas' water.
โDemand goes way up, supply goes way down, which is not a sustainable future for Texas water resources,โ Banner said.
In the stacks:
The role of women in the history of geology / edited by C. V. Burek and B. Higgs. Geological Society, 2007. #geology #geologists #history