University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
The World Needs Geophysicists! From earthquakes to climate change we tackle fundamental issues in Earth and planetary sciences. Part of the Jackson School of Geosciences at @utaustin.bsky.social.
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- At this week's #utigseminars Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Texas A&M University. Abstract and more at ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
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- At this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more:https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-erica-jawin-smithsonian-institution/
- At this week's #UTIGSeminars Louise Farquharson will discuss Not So Permanent Permafrost. Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-louise-farquharson-university-of-alaska/
- READ: AAPG Explorer magazine reached out to GBDS director Richard Denne and co-director Mike Sweet to learn about the geology, history and likely future of one of the Gulf's richest energy veins: the Mother of Miocene Plays!🐉 Requires (free) registration: explorer.aapg.org/story/articl...
- It's #ForamFriday! They're bizarre and beautiful, and their fossilized shells are a window into the past! UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change. Read more: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
- UTIG grad student, Nicole Ferrie, presents research at the 2nd Joint International Earthquake Science Symposium! UTIG researchers and students have joined colleagues in Yokohama, Japan to discuss the latest progress on understanding the world's largest and most dangerous earthquakes.
- Scientists at UTIG and UNAM are calling for renewed investigations of the Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current, a linchpin in global ocean currents and key suspect behind strengthening hurricanes in the Gulf. Read more: eos.org/science-upda...
- Mars was once an ocean-covered world. But what was that ancient planet like? UTIG grad students Mohammad Afzal Shadab (now at Princeton University) and Eric Hiatt are turning up answers after uncovering a missing piece of Mars' ancient water cycle. Read more: ig.utexas.edu/homepage-new...
- Be an Undergraduate Research Assistant in energy geosciences at UT's Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Program! Students will assist GBDS researchers and will have opportunities to pursue independent research. Learn more and apply: ig.utexas.edu/student-oppo...
- 40 Hours for the Forty Acres is here! This year, you can provide support in three ways that impact students at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the Jackson School: give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ... give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ... give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ...
- On a recent survey of Lake Austin, UTIG's research vessel, the RV Scott Petty, discovered a sunken wreck! While there's unlikely to be treasure down there, the colorful sonar surveys help the City maintain Austin's treasured waterways. More UTIG lake research: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
- On a recent survey of Lake Austin, UTIG's research vessel, the RV Scotty Petty, discovered a sunken wreck! While there's unlikely to be treasure down there, the colorful sonar surveys help the City maintain Austin's treasured waterways. More UTIG lake research: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
- Did you know, the Skyrim mountains are a convergent plate boundary and the Rift is an uplifted plateau? Jackson School senior and UTIG undergrad researcher Mandala Pham, put her geology skills to use creating THE definitive geologic map of the videogame Skyrim. 🗺️ Mandala's geologic map of Skyrim
- This Friday on #UTIGSeminars: Natural climate swings cast a fog of uncertainty over global warming predictions. But Jud Partin and the UTIG climate group have (literally) dug into Earth's climate past and found that climate-wise, bad times are coming! Abstract & more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- Congratulations UTIG grad student Riley Garrett, on earning best Master's talk prize at yesterday's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences awards! Congratulations also to Knebel Teaching award winners Mrinal Sen, Peter Flemings and Thorsten Becker, and all the other award winners! 🤘
- This week on #UTIGSeminars: Greenland's ice is melting fast, but how far will glaciers retreat and how much will seas rise? Enter Allie Balter-Kennedy (LDEO) and GreenDrill, a project to recover geologic evidence of past deglaciation. Join us this Friday 10:30am CT: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- UTIG admins were out doing fieldwork again! This year, our plucky admins were aboard the RV Scott Petty learning to use sonar and sediment scoops to survey Lake Austin. The fieldwork is scientifically valuable and a chance for staff to get hands-on with UTIG's research. Good sciencing y'all!
- It's a planetary field trip! Organized by students of the Planetary Peer Network at UT Austin's Center for Planetary Systems Habitability, students and postdocs took a field trip to NASA Johnson Space Center. More on UT planetary habitability science habitability.utexas.edu Photos: Medha Prakash
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- Simulations of Mars' molten core could explain the Red Planet's missing magnetic field. New research from @utaustin.bsky.social and @jhuartssciences.bsky.social: ig.utexas.edu/news/2025/mo... @insideplanets.bsky.social @astrodoc.bsky.social @planetsabine.bsky.social @cyanmagnetic.bsky.social
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- “The fact that we are seeing a warming trend means we just cross those red flag warning thresholds a lot more often than we used to.” Danielle Touma, extreme weather researcher at UTIG, talked to The Daily Texan about rising wildfire risk in Travis county. thedailytexan.com/2025/04/09/c...
- FRIDAY: This week on #UTIGSeminars, Molly Patterson (SUNY Binghamton) examines connections between Earth's orbit and Antarctica through the dusty residue of long-melted icebergs! Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
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- FRIDAY: They say nature is the best teacher. For UTIG's Sara Santos, shrimps have inspired what could be a new generation of underwater drones. And they could be perfect for exploring distant ocean worlds! Learn more at this week's #UTIGSeminars ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
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- FRIDAY: 17 million years ago, vast lava flows began profoundly reshaping the American Northwest. #UTIGSeminars and the Bureau of Economic Geology proudly present Prof. Gene Humphreys for a special 3pm seminar on the tectonic fallout of the Columbia River flood basalts. ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- FRIDAY: Could reflecting sunlight back into space safely reduce global climate warming? This week #UTIGSeminars welcomes Jim Hurrell (Colorado State University) for a timely intervention on the science, benefits and risks behind solar climate engineering. Abstract: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- Whether it’s rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner. But scientists at the Jackson School have discovered that there's a difference. Read more: www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/03...
- FRIDAY: Join #UTIGSeminars in the BEG VR room (venue change!) as we invite Weisen Shen (Stony Brook University) to discuss the deep continental crust beneath ice sheets and what it can tell us about future climate change. Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- The 16th annual meeting of the UT GeoFluids consortia is now on! Industry geologists are getting research updates from students and researchers at UTIG and Tufts University on topics such as the Biot coefficient and AI for geopressure prediction. UT GeoFluids: www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/geofluids/
- The first UTIG Research Symposium was a big success! Researchers got together to share projects they're most excited about, covering everything from origins of life to earthquakes, ice sheets and even quantum computing for geosciences! We also got a first look at the new UTIG geophysics exhibit!
- The @txgeosciences.bsky.social annual student research symposium was a blast! Check out the list of winners and a Q&A with the first-place awardees in each category: www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/02...
- ICYMI Inside Unmanned Systems sat down with UTIG's Prof. Ginny Catania to talk about last summer's TERMINUS expedition to Greenland and how drone technology is changing the study of glaciers. insideunmannedsystems.com/terminus-a-c...
- The First UTIG Research Symposium is on! @utgeophysics.bsky.social researchers and students have come together to share their latest research updates and discuss new collaborations. Coral tide gauges, chemical origins of life, impacts as biological drivers. So many cool (and important) projects!
- FRIDAY: Oceans soak up a vast amount of greenhouse heat. At this week's #UTIGSeminars, Wenbo Wu @whoi.edu introduces a novel way to track the oceans' potential to absorb heat using seismic waves generated by rumbles in the Earth! Starts 10:30am CT. Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- Congratulations to the NASA EuropaClipper Team! Europa Clipper was named among the most innovative, inspiring and important missions of 2024 at the 2nd Annual Astro Awards Live. UTIG's Krista Soderlund was in Austin, Texas, to receive the award on behalf of the team. 📸 Jakubik Photography 📸 UTIG
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- A new @nature.com study from @txgeosciences.bsky.social researchers and collaborators suggests that bird evolution was well underway before non-avian dinosaurs went extinct: www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/02... #FossilFriday
- FRIDAY: The Gulf of Mexico is a mishmash of broken up crust that tells a tangled tale of tectonic origins. At this week's #UTIGSeminars, Tim Grow (a geophysicist at Hess Corp.) presents a new tectonic model to unravel the Gulf Basin's tectonic past. Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- NASA's Europa Clipper is on a historic mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa. Brady Taylor @kwtx.com went 1-on-1 with UTIG's Don Blankenship to get the latest update and learn how a @utaustin.bsky.social-developed ice radar will help look for life in Europa's ice. youtu.be/9LV2MmLUOV0?...
- Long read: Check out @theregister.com's special report on heatwaves and wildfires, featuring UTIG's Danielle Touma's research on the links between climate change and extreme fire weather. www.theregister.com/2025/02/02/h...
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- Jamin Greenbaum is someone you need to know about. Not just because he was a @txgeosciences.bsky.social grad student and @utgeophysics.bsky.social postdoc. Our long-time polar field collaborator is now one of Explorer's Club's 50 people changing the world! 50.explorers.org/community/ja...
- Reposted by University of Texas Institute for Geophysics🏅 Congratulations to Scripps research geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum for being named to the 2025 class of The Explorers Club 50! He was lauded for his research in Antarctica, where he makes critical observations in areas that need to be studied to improve predictions of glacier melt and retreat.
- FRIDAY: The oceans are by far the most important of Earth's global climate regulators. This week, #UTIGSeminars joins Spencer Jones (at Texas A&M Oceanography) on a deep dive into Atlantic ocean currents and the physics of how they move heat northward. Abstract+ ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
- Rain is forecast for Los Angeles, bringing some relief for those facing wildfires. But heavy rain after fire comes with its own perils. @meghanbartels.bsky.social at Scientific American talked with UTIG's Danielle Touma to learn more. www.scientificamerican.com/article/week...
