Tag: University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
October 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 continent’s 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 ‘foreshock’ tremors. The finding offers hope that future earthquakes could…
Read MoreOctober 4, 2023
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 MoreSeptember 13, 2023
UT Austin’s Demian Saffer Named AGU Fellow
Demian Saffer, the director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has been 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 MoreJuly 12, 2023
New Radar Technique Lets Scientists Probe Invisible Ice Sheet Region on Earth and Icy Worlds
Scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have developed a radar technique that lets them image hidden features within the upper few…
Read MoreJune 22, 2023
Highest Honor in Antarctic Exploration Goes to Ian Dalziel
Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin has been honored with the Polar Medal — the United Kingdom’s top award for polar exploration….
Read MoreJune 15, 2023
Sinking Seamount Offers Clues to Slow Motion Earthquakes
Scientists have long puzzled over what happens when seamounts — mountains and volcanoes on the seafloor — are pulled into subduction zones. Now, new research…
Read MoreJune 12, 2023
European Distinguished Geoscientist Medal Goes to UT’s Thorsten Becker
The European Geosciences Union has awarded the 2023 Augustus Love Medal to Thorsten Becker, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School…
Read MoreMay 16, 2023
Top Gulf Coast Geology Medal Goes to UTIG’s John Snedden
John Snedden, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has been awarded the Don R. Boyd Medal for Excellence in…
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