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March 15, 2022

Ancient El Niños Reveal Limits to Future Climate Projections

Picture of Allison holding a bone-like coral with stacked cardboard containers either side indicating she is in a warehouse

The climate pattern El Niño varies over time to such a degree that scientists will have difficulty detecting signs that it is getting stronger with global warming. That’s the conclusion of a study led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin that analyzed 9,000 years of Earth’s history. The scientists drew on climate… Continue Reading Ancient El Niños Reveal Limits to Future Climate Projections

Filed Under: Climate Stories, homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Allison Lawman, climate models, El Nino, ENSO, Holocene, Jud Partin, Lonestar5, paleoclimate, Pedro DiNezio

January 31, 2022

Robotic Exploration of Uncharted, Underwater Glacial Walls Set for 2023

The robot in action underwater. The lights from its open payload bay doors light up ice underwater

It’s the front line of climate change and could hold the key to predicting global sea level rise, but what goes on at the underwater face of Greenland’s glaciers is a mystery to science. That could change in 2023 with a bold new mission led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that… Continue Reading Robotic Exploration of Uncharted, Underwater Glacial Walls Set for 2023

Filed Under: Climate Stories, homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Ginny Catania, glaciers, Greenland, Keck Foundation, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), remote submersible, robotic exploration, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, underwater exploration

January 30, 2020

Xian Wu Receives AGU’s Outstanding Student Presentation Award For El Niño Talk

Xian Wu, a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) has received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award for a talk she gave at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in December 2019. The award includes a certificate, $150 cash prize and complimentary tickets to a banquet during AGU’s next… Continue Reading Xian Wu Receives AGU’s Outstanding Student Presentation Award For El Niño Talk

Filed Under: Climate Stories, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: AGU, Outstanding Student Presentation Award, student awards, Xian Wu

December 19, 2019

El Niño, La Niña Rising

These seasonal climate patterns are responsible for far-reaching and damaging weather events that affect the entire world. The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is leading the way to understand how global climate change could be affecting them. By Constantino Panagopulos Allison Lawman is in The University of Texas at Austin paleoclimate archive, laying out… Continue Reading El Niño, La Niña Rising

Filed Under: Climate Stories, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: climate change, El Nino, ENSO, feature, la nina, Newsletter stories

December 2, 2019

UTIG Seminar Notes: Xian Wu explains why some El Niño events last longer than others

The final UTIG seminar of the Fall semester is reserved for graduate students to practice their presentations for AGU Fall. This year’s practice talks will be given by UTIG grad students Xian Wu, Kelly Olsen and Janaki Vamaraju. We asked each student to give us a sneak-preview into what they’ll be talking about and why… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Notes: Xian Wu explains why some El Niño events last longer than others

Filed Under: Climate Stories, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, Meet the UTIG Student, News, Seminar Notes Tagged With: Xian Wu

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