Tag: University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
May 13, 2016
Cenote Descent
The Chicxulub impactโs biggest claim to fame is wiping out the dinosaurs. But, as I mentioned in my first postย from Merida, the impact also played…
Read MoreNovember 23, 2015
Climate Can Grind Mountains Faster Than They Can Be Rebuilt
Researchers for the first time have attempted to measure all the material leaving and entering a mountain range over more than a million years and…
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2015
Scientists Simulate Earthโs Middle Crust to Understand Earthquakes
Researchers have for the first time been able to measure a materialโs resistance to fracturing from various types of tectonic motions in the Earthโs middle…
Read MoreSeptember 2, 2015
Ancient Cold Period Could Provide Clues About Future Climate Change
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that a well-known period of abrupt climate change 12,000 years ago occurred rapidly in northern…
Read MoreAugust 20, 2015
UT Researchers Accidentally Discover Tool to Examine Melting Glaciers
The story starts with six scientists and six glaciers. They set out to Alaska and Greenland to study earthquakes caused by glaciers breaking up. To…
Read MoreJuly 7, 2015
Coral Reefs and Earthquake History: Tale is There
In a clear sign that all is connected, particularly to our terrestrial coral reefs, researchers who were studying uplifted coral along the eastern coast of…
Read MoreJune 1, 2015
Radar Techniques Used in Antarctica Will Scour Europa for Life-Supporting Environments
When a NASA spacecraft sets off to explore Jupiterโs icy moon Europa to look for the ingredients of life, radar equipment designed to pierce the…
Read MoreApril 6, 2015
Expedition Will Sample Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
An international research team is formalizing plans to drill nearly 5,000 feet below the seabed to take core samples from the crater of the asteroid…
Read MoreMarch 16, 2015
The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse.
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learnedย that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet…
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