Science, Y'all!

Science, Y’all! is a blog run by graduate and undergraduate students in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. The purpose of this blog is to provide students with a platform to share their research and experiences with their peers and the general public. Posts represent the views of the authors, not of The University of Texas at Austin or the Jackson School of Geosciences. We hope that Science, Y’all! will strengthen our community by allowing us to share what it is we all do in our respective dark holes (read: offices, laboratories, dungeons), as well as promote the diverse experiences of students at JSG.

Current editors (2025-2026)

August Aalto – Podcast Director

• PhD Candidate (expected 2027)
• Discipline tags: soil science, geomorphology, remote sensing
• August enjoys being inside movie-watching, indie game-playing, and house plant-gardening, and being outside camping, rowing, and birdwatching.

Bella Gray – Editorial Director

• PhD Student (expected 2029)
• Discipline tags: fluvial geomorphology, remote sensing, hydrogeology
• Bella is interested in books, birds, and bouldering. She is currently on a mission to visit all of the U.S. national parks.

Lucia Bellino

• PhD Candidate (expected 2027)
• Discipline tags: planetary science, volcanism, petrology, Mars, Io
• Lucia likes pottery, reading, playing the harp, baking, boxing, swimming, and walking her dog, Duff!

Past editors

2024-2025

• August Aalto
• Lucia Bellino (editorial director)
• Kevin Shionalyn
• Patty Standring
• Bella Gray
• Jack St. Peter
• Janet Cañamar (undergraduate editor)
• Fiona Gallice (undergraduate editor)
• Nabeeha Siddiqui (undergraduate editor)
• Emily Moore (undergraduate editor)

2023-2024

• August Aalto
• Emily Bamber 
• Charlotte Barnes (undergraduate editor)
• Lucia Bellino
• Leah Kegerreis (undergraduate editor)
• Sabrina Reichert
• Kevin Shionalyn  (editorial-director)

2022-2023

• Jana Abdullatif
• Emily Bamber  (editor-in-chief)
• Lucia Bellino
• Noah Benitez-Nelson
• Scarlette Hsia
• Kevin Shionalyn
• Siyu Zhao

2021-2022

• Jana Abdullatif
• Emily Bamber
• Megan Flansburg  (editor-in-chief)
• Kiara Gomez
• Scarlette Hsia
• Kevin Shionalyn
• Siyu Zhao

2019-2020 & 2020-2021:

• Emily Bamber
• Megan Flansburg  (editor-in-chief)
• Kiara Gomez
• Hima J Hassenruck-Gudipati
• Natasha Sekhon

2018-2019:

• Tomas Capaldi (editor-in-chief)
• Megan Flansburg
• Kiara Gomez
• Hima J Hassenruck-Gudipati
• Natasha Sekhon

2017-2018:

• Keri Belcher
• Rachel Bernard (editor-in-chief)
• Tomas Capaldi
• Megan Flansburg
• Kiara Gomez
• Josh Lively
• Natasha Sekhon

2016-2017:

• Rachel Bernard
• Tomas Capaldi
• Emily Cooperdock
• Sol Cooperdock
• Josh Lively

Featured images courtesy of the following JSG student winners of the 2016 GSEC calendar competition:

• About page: Menal Gupta
• Blog page: Man Liang
• Contribute page: Khushboo Arora