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The UTIG Geophysics Blog

Stories and updates from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

April 19, 2022

UTIG’s Admin Staff Join Researchers On Mission to Lake Austin

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The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics called on reinforcements to help the City of Austin monitor the health of Austin’s lakes: the UTIG admin team! On April 14, the team joined researchers aboard the RV Scott Petty for a hands-on exercise in geophysics. The science demonstration had participants learning to use sonar and sampling sediments with a… Continue Reading UTIG’s Admin Staff Join Researchers On Mission to Lake Austin

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Blue Sky program, City of Austin, Dan Duncan, Lake Austin, Marcy Davis, RV Scott Petty, UTIG Admins

April 15, 2022

Spring Retirement Party!

It was a UTIG retirement party! We bid an emotional but happy farewell this week, to four long time colleagues and friends, whose work and character helped build UTIG into leading geophysical research institute: Gail Christeson, UTIG’s associate director, departs to join the National Science Foundation as program director for ocean sciences, marine and geosciences.… Continue Reading Spring Retirement Party!

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news

December 8, 2021

UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

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Catch up with your colleagues. Find out whose doing what at AGU Fall with our (nearly) comprehensive schedule of talks and posters from current (and recent) UTIG research staff and students. Continue Reading UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: AGU

November 15, 2021

Graduate Students at UTIG Awarded Presidential Scholarship

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UTIG graduate research assistants are among Jackson School students to have been awarded The University of Texas at Austin’s Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship. The award recognizes outstanding academic achievement. Each student will receive at least $2,500 in unrestricted funds. The 2021 UTIG recipients were: Abby Varona A 2nd year M.S. student studying deepwater stratigraphy. Catherine… Continue Reading Graduate Students at UTIG Awarded Presidential Scholarship

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: awards, graduate students, student awards, Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship

November 15, 2021

Xiaohua “Eric” Xu: Research Associate

NOVEMBER 1, 2021 By Constantino Panagopulos When Xiaohua Xu analyzed high- resolution satellite images of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes, he found that they had lit up clusters of previously unknown faults in the surrounding crust that seemed to move backward immediately after the earthquakes. The analysis, which was published in Science when he was a postdoctoral researcher… Continue Reading Xiaohua “Eric” Xu: Research Associate

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: earthquakes, Newsletter stories

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