Tag: water
May 13, 2019
Storm Water Banking Could Help Texas Manage Floods and Droughts
Massive, destructive floods such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 are a stark reality in Texas, but so are prolonged ground-cracking droughts. In…
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2019
Sharp Bends Make Rivers Wander
Left to their own devices and given enough time, rivers wander, eroding their banks and leaving their old channels behind. Itโs a behavior that engineers…
Read MoreJanuary 22, 2018
Research Finds Discrepancies Between Satellite and Global Model Estimates of Land Water Storage
Research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that calculations of water storage in many river basins from commonly used global computer…
Read MoreSeptember 6, 2017
Study Quantifies Potential for Water Reuse in Permian Basin Oil Production
Hydraulic fracturing often brings up large volumes of water that need to be managed. A study led by The University of Texas at Austin has…
Read MoreFebruary 9, 2016
Bridget Scanlon Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Bridget Scanlon, a hydrologist and senior research scientist at the University of Texasโ Bureau of Economic Geology, has been elected aย member of the National Academy…
Read MoreDecember 15, 2015
Nature Controls Colorado River Outlook
The Colorado River Basin’s water supply is mainly affected by wet and dry weather cycles, not changes in human use, according to a studyย led by…
Read MoreDecember 10, 2015
Nature, Not Humans, Has Greater Influence on Water in the Colorado River Basin
Researchers have found that the water supply of the Colorado River basin, one of the most important sources for water in the southwestern United States,…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2015
How Can We Keep Track of Earth’s Invisible Water?
This week, Generation Anthropocene goes on a continent-hopping tour of the invisible water that drives planetary processes. Producer Mike Osborne kicks things off by chatting…
Read MoreJune 16, 2015
Don’t Let Texas’ Excess Water Go to Waste
The past few weeks have highlighted a challenge for water resource managers in Texas: we either have too much water when we don’t need it…
Read MoreJune 12, 2015
The Q&A: Bridget R. Scanlon
With each issue, Trib+Water brings you an interview with experts on water-related issues. Here is this week’s subject: Bridget R. Scanlon is a senior research…
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