11 out of 10 on Moh’s Hardness Scale

Feb 23, 2017 | Scott Eckley, M.S. 2018

Suppose you want to examine the inside of a rock. You can break it, cut it, crush it, grind it, polish it, or employ any number of procedures at cracking your sample open and taking a peek inside. What happens if you exhaust all of these methods and still cannot…

Coral Reefs and Carbonates on “La Isla Bonita”

Feb 16, 2017 | Kiara Gomez, PhD 2020

After surviving my first semester of graduate school, I felt like I needed a mini-vacation. I decided to spend a week of my winter break visiting my close friend, who lives in San Pedro, Belize, a colorful town located on the country’s largest island of Ambergris Caye. Where is Belize,…

Holy pegmatite, Batman!

Jan 24, 2017 | Emily H. G. Cooperdock, PhD 2017

My husband and I made a resolution a couple of years ago to ring in each new year by camping, or hiking, or whatever would take us outside to some beautiful place. This seems an especially important resolution to us as we spend our days holed up in our respective…

AGU Fashion: A Style Guide

Dec 16, 2016 | Rachel Bernard, PhD 2018

The night before my early morning flight to San Francisco for the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, I was plagued with uncertainty. Sure my talk was ready, but I had bigger concerns—what was I going to wear? It’s a question as old as AGU itself. Luckily, this wasn’t…

Keep Your Data Alive!

Dec 8, 2016 | Hannah Brame, PhD 2021

Last month, director and curator of the UT Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab Ann Molineux gave an fantastic talk titled “Forensic Tools to Track and Connect Physical Samples to Related Data.” Ann Molineux has been an invaluable member of the UT Austin paleontological data community through her fantastic curatorial work, and also…

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11 out of 10 on Moh’s Hardness Scale

Coral Reefs and Carbonates on “La Isla Bonita”

Holy pegmatite, Batman!

AGU Fashion: A Style Guide

Keep Your Data Alive!