Student Spotlight By Freja Cini Graduate student Soraya Alfred studies hydrothermal fluid flow at impact craters to understand their role in life on Earth and on other planets. How long did it take for life to bounce back after an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs? That’s what Soraya Alfred — a graduate research assistant… Continue Reading Recreating Chicxulub’s Post-Impact Hydrothermal System
The UTIG Geophysics Blog
Stories and updates from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.
2023 Year in Review
In 2023, scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics saw their research published in top journals, including Nature and Science, received the highest honors as both scientists and students (and even one from royalty!), and led major scientific missions at sea and on ice. Here’s a few other stories you may have missed.… Continue Reading 2023 Year in Review
UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2023
Jump to Catch up with friends, heckle enemies. Find out whose doing what at AGU Fall with our (mostly) comprehensive schedule of talks and posters from current (and recent) UTIG research staff and students. Notice something amiss, get in touch! Monday, December 11 All times local San Francisco time (PST). Shuoshuo Han Characterizing the Deep… Continue Reading UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2023
Meet Patty Standring
In this Q&A published in RMAG’s Outcrop, Patty Standring, a graduate student at the Jackson School of Geosciences, discusses how she went from a career in the Air Force to working as a micropaleontologist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. “I have a non-traditional path to the geosciences. Before going to the University… Continue Reading Meet Patty Standring
Field Blog: Studying the Blake Plateau
An ocean research cruise led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is off the coast of Florida surveying the tectonics and movement of the crust hundreds of feet beneath the ocean floor. Follow the expedition’s blog as they look for clues to the break-up of Earth’s last supercontinent Pangea, and how that massive event shaped the magmatic activity below the crust today… Continue Reading Field Blog: Studying the Blake Plateau
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