Spotlights
Dedication, service, and compassion
These are the professional values representedy by Eleanor Picard's career. Members of the Institute for Geophysics have established a fund to support a new award, the Eleanor Picard Excellence Award, that will honor the invaluable contributions that members of UTIG's support staff make to UTIG's scientific and educational mission.
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Scientists find evidence for "Great Lake" on Europa and Potential New Habitat for Life
UTIG postdoctoral fellow, Britney Schmidt, and colleagues have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Explorers Invite Public to Join Historic Ocean Expedition Online
UTIG scientist,
Jamie Austin is serving as co-chief scientist on Leg 5 of the EV
Nautilus 2011 expedition. Visitors can
login to the
Nautilus Live website for the expedition and submit questions during the Nov. 10-18 webcast. See Jamie's
Nautilus interview and
Daily Texan interview.
The Continental Drifter
UTIG senior research scientist,
Ian Dalziel, has devoted his career to reconstructing the ancient geography of Earth through plate tectonics. Find out
more about his journeys through space and time.
