By Constantino Panagopulos It is December, 2018, and Repsol has just signed to rejoin the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program, an industry-supported study of the Gulf of Mexico spearheaded by The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG). Program director John Snedden knows that the Spanish energy giant’s return to GBDS not only marks […]

Years before the devastating Tohoku earthquake struck the coast of Japan in 2011, the Earth’s crust near the site of the quake was starting to stir. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are using computer models to investigate if tiny tremors detected near the site of the quake could be connected to the […]

Some 27,000 people have travelled to Washington D.C. this week to attend the largest annual gathering of earth and space scientists in the world. For students, attending AGU Fall Meeting is an incredibly enriching experience. Getting up on stage in front of colleagues to give a talk, or standing in front of a poster detailing […]