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September 10, 2021

UT Joins NSF-Funded Center for Oldest Ice Exploration

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The University of Texas at Austin has joined a National Science Foundation-funded center to find the world’s oldest ice in Antarctica – 1.5-million-year-old ice that could hold tiny pockets of Earth’s ancient atmosphere trapped in air bubbles within the ice. Announced Sept. 9, 2021, the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX, is a five-year,… Continue Reading UT Joins NSF-Funded Center for Oldest Ice Exploration

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: aerogeophysics, Antarctica, COLDEX, Duncan Young, old ice, radar

September 7, 2021

Austin Partners with UT to give City Lakes a Health Checkup

Picture of the Colorado River facing the dam. The waters are brown and choppy and as high as the treeline on either bank.

The waters of Austin’s city lakes are enjoyed by millions each year, but years of urban development and weather extremes are taking their toll. Now, scientists at the University of Texas at Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and the City of Austin will give Lake Austin and Lady Bird Lake a first-of-its-kind health checkup when they… Continue Reading Austin Partners with UT to give City Lakes a Health Checkup

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: algae, Austin, Blue Sky program, City of Austin, Highland Lakes, Lady Bird Lake, Lake Austin, Marcy Davis, RV Scott Petty, sediments

July 22, 2021

Top Geology Award Goes to Ian Dalziel of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Ian Dalziel at sea wearing a storm jacket and life vest. A rugged windswept island fills the horizon. Dalziel is smiling at the camera.

Ian W.D. Dalziel, a research professor at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has been awarded the Geological Society of America’s Penrose Medal for pioneering discoveries about Earth’s ancient geography and its past supercontinents. Established in 1927, the Penrose Medal is widely considered to be geology’s most prestigious career award. In a letter,… Continue Reading Top Geology Award Goes to Ian Dalziel of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

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April 12, 2021

UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion

A picture of windswept sand dunes at McFaddin beach. Overwash is visible but plants growing in the dunes are largely intact.

Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 in search of sunken treasure that holds the key to protecting Texas from storms and rising seas: sand. About 80% of Texas’ Gulf shoreline is critically eroded, and the state is running out of easily accessible sand to rebuild and… Continue Reading UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: CEPRA, Chris Lowery, coastal erosion, coastal protection, coastal resources, hurricanes, John Goff, marine geoscience, MG&G, sand, sand resources, Sea Level Rise, Sean Gulick, storm surge, storms, Texas, Texas coast, Texas GLO, Trinity River, Trinity Valley

March 17, 2021

Dunyu Liu: Computational Geoscientist

Dunyu Liu at Crater Lake.

MEET THE SCIENTIST Dunyu Liu is a computational geoscientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), and the first official hire to support computational science activities across UTIG. A seismologist by training, Liu is helping build bridges between geophysical research and high performance computing. In 2008, when Dunyu Liu was an undergraduate, a… Continue Reading Dunyu Liu: Computational Geoscientist

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: CESM, climate models, computational geoscience, Dunyu Liu, earthquakes, finite element method, Lonestar5, supercomputers, TACC, Wenchuan

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