Tag: UTIG
November 3, 2026
Wacky Magnetic Fields of Ice Giants Explained
When NASA’s Voyager 2 robotic probe flew by Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s, it uncovered an anomaly: their magnetic fields are highly disordered, unlike…
Read MoreOctober 29, 2026
Faraway Tectonic Forces May Have Accelerated the Gulf of California Rifting
When the Baja California peninsula broke from mainland Mexico nearly 12 million years ago it gave rise to the Gulf of California. New research suggests…
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2026
Jackson School Researchers Win Top Awards from AGU
Three researchers and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Jackson School of Geosciences have received top awards from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s…
Read MoreMay 21, 2026
Sweet Receives Top Gulf Coast Geology Award
Michael Sweet, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and co-program director of the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) project is the…
Read MoreMarch 30, 2026
UT Geodynamicist Thorsten Becker Elected to German Academy of Sciences
Thorsten Becker, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, has been elected a member of the German Academy of…
Read MoreJanuary 21, 2026
Evidence of ‘Lightning-Fast’ Evolution Found After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact
The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail…
Read MoreAugust 1, 2025
NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars
As it soared past Mars in March, NASA’s Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish on Earth. Now that…
Read MoreMay 19, 2025
UT Austin Grad Students Find Missing Link in Early Martian Water Cycle
Billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface of Mars. But scientists have an incomplete picture of how the Red Planet’s water cycle worked….
Read MoreApril 18, 2025
Scientific Instrument Developed by UTIG Scientists Headed to Europa
Among the instruments the spacecraft is carrying is a moon-imaging radar sounder named REASON that was developed by researchers at The University of Texas at…
Read MoreApril 15, 2025
Molten Martian Core Could Explain Red Planet’s Magnetic Quirks
Like Earth, Mars once had a strong magnetic field that shielded its thick atmosphere from the solar wind. But now only the magnetic imprint remains….
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