Science, Y’all! is a blog and podcast run by graduate students in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. We strive 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)
Bella Gray – Editor-in-chief
- PhD Student (expected 2029)
- Discipline tags: fluvial geomorphology, remote sensing, drylands, flash floods, hydrogeology
- Bella is interested in books, birds, and bouldering. She is currently on a mission to do a major hike in all of the U.S. national parks. Her message: bring back whimsy.
August Aalto – Podcast Director
- PhD Candidate (expected 2027)
- Discipline tags: soil science, geomorphology, remote sensing, deltas
- August enjoys being inside movie-watching, indie game-playing, and house plant-gardening, and being outside camping, rowing, and birdwatching.
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!
Josiah (Jojo) Sananda
- PhD Student (expected 2029)
- Discipline tags: hydrology, dendrochronology, ecosystem resilience, drought, wildfire
- Jojo is a nature enthusiast who enjoys all things tree-related: researching, climbing, hiking, camping, protecting, and exploring. She appreciates spaces where art, science, and conversation can come together and inspire. Her message: science is for everyone!
Emma Martin
- PhD Student (expected 2029)
- Discipline tags: marine seismology, activate source imaging, tectonophysics
- Emma enjoys spending time rockhounding, tidepooling, hiking, bouldering, and being surprised when people don’t understand her obscene amount of movie references.
Koutian Wu – Newsletter Editor
- PhD Student (expected 2029)
- Discipline tags: land surface modeling, hydrology
- Koutian is interested in bouldering. He has a cute hamster named “AI”.
Holiday O’Bryan
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PhD Student (expected 2030)
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Discipline tags: critical minerals, ore genesis, petrology, mineralogy
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Holiday is a dancer, classically trained in Cecchetti, Vaganova, and RAB styles of ballet. She loves cross-stitch, Pusheen, and trash scrapbooking. She has a large and very stupid brown tabby named Azu, to whom she dedicated her undergraduate thesis on Devonian pyrite.
Past editors
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2019-2020 & 2020-2021:
2018-2019:
2017-2018:
2016-2017:
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
