The World Needs Geophysicists! From earthquakes to climate change we tackle fundamental issues in Earth and planetary sciences. Part of the Jackson School of Geosciences at @utaustin.bsky.social. https://ig.utexas.edu/https://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m63meix7e22xAT this week's #utigseminars20 Nov 2025 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63meix7e22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m5jmjxrcpc2zAt this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series-meredith-kelly-dartmouth-college/13 Nov 2025 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jmjxrcpc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m4bcfe3j3c22At this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series-shujuan-mao-the-university-of-texas-at-austin/28 Oct 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4bcfe3j3c22https://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m3pmb5xgrk22At this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series-michael-young-the-university-of-texas-at-austin/21 Oct 2025 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pmb5xgrk22https://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m3d3u7lups2rAt this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series-lizz-ultee-nasa-goddard/16 Oct 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3d3u7lups2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m2rgzqfxuc27At this week's #utigseminars Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Texas A&M University. Abstract and more at https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series-kelly-nunez-ocasio-texas-am/09 Oct 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rgzqfxuc27https://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3m27u3d7q6s23At this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series-collin-brandl-ldeo/02 Oct 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27u3d7q6s23https://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lz52g6qr6c2rAt this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-jiaxuan-li-university-of-houston/18 Sep 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz52g6qr6c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lz52di5ap22rAt this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more: https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-jiaxuan-li-university-of-houston/18 Sep 2025 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz52di5ap22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lyl3vkxpas2mAt this week's #UTIGSeminars! Abstract and more:https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-erica-jawin-smithsonian-institution/11 Sep 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyl3vkxpas2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lxzl2omqhs2cAt this week's #UTIGSeminars Louise Farquharson will discuss Not So Permanent Permafrost. Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-louise-farquharson-university-of-alaska/04 Sep 2025 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzl2omqhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lqnnijxn522vREAD: AAPG Explorer magazine reached out to GBDS director Richard Denne and co-director Mike Sweet to learn about the geology, history and likely future of one of the Gulf's richest energy veins: the Mother of Miocene Plays!🐉 Requires (free) registration: https://explorer.aapg.org/story/articleid/68846/mother-of-plays-daenerys-far-south-and-the-gulfs-miocene-future02 Jun 2025 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqnnijxn522vhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lqfyqiqlkc2nIt's #ForamFriday! They're bizarre and beautiful, and their fossilized shells are a window into the past! UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change. Read more: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/foraminifera-fossils-tell-story-of-past-life-on-earth30 May 2025 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfyqiqlkc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lpuau5li4c2pUTIG grad student, Nicole Ferrie, presents research at the 2nd Joint International Earthquake Science Symposium! UTIG researchers and students have joined colleagues in Yokohama, Japan to discuss the latest progress on understanding the world's largest and most dangerous earthquakes.23 May 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpuau5li4c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lpkm5m42zs2pScientists at UTIG and UNAM are calling for renewed investigations of the Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current, a linchpin in global ocean currents and key suspect behind strengthening hurricanes in the Gulf. Read more: https://eos.org/science-updates/ocean-current-affairs-in-the-gulf-of-mexico19 May 2025 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpkm5m42zs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lpkh7elaas2iMars was once an ocean-covered world. But what was that ancient planet like? UTIG grad students Mohammad Afzal Shadab (now at Princeton University) and Eric Hiatt are turning up answers after uncovering a missing piece of Mars' ancient water cycle. Read more: https://ig.utexas.edu/homepage-news/2025/ut-austin-grad-students-find-missing-link-in-early-martian-water-cycle/19 May 2025 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpkh7elaas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lp3e65rwks27Be an Undergraduate Research Assistant in energy geosciences at UT's Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Program! Students will assist GBDS researchers and will have opportunities to pursue independent research. Learn more and apply: https://ig.utexas.edu/student-opportunities/2025/geoscience-undergraduate-research-assistant-2/13 May 2025 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp3e65rwks27https://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lom2w4h3u22b40 Hours for the Forty Acres is here! This year, you can provide support in three ways that impact students at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the Jackson School: https://give.utexas.edu/schools/UniversityofTexasatAustin/40-hours-for-the-forty-acres/pages/colleges-schools-and-departments/jackson-school-of-geosciences/?a=9845664 https://give.utexas.edu/schools/UniversityofTexasatAustin/40-hours-for-the-forty-acres/pages/colleges-schools-and-departments/ending-destructive-wildfires/?a=9845664 https://give.utexas.edu/schools/UniversityofTexasatAustin/40-hours-for-the-forty-acres/pages/student-experience/jackson-school-research-traineeship-experience-rtx/?a=984566407 May 2025 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lom2w4h3u22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lojp436kz22iOn a recent survey of Lake Austin, UTIG's research vessel, the RV Scott Petty, discovered a sunken wreck! While there's unlikely to be treasure down there, the colorful sonar surveys help the City maintain Austin's treasured waterways. More UTIG lake research: https://ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-austin/06 May 2025 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojp436kz22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lojoroel7c2yOn a recent survey of Lake Austin, UTIG's research vessel, the RV Scotty Petty, discovered a sunken wreck! While there's unlikely to be treasure down there, the colorful sonar surveys help the City maintain Austin's treasured waterways. More UTIG lake research: https://ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-austin/06 May 2025 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojoroel7c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lo7ox7cfm22nDid you know, the Skyrim mountains are a convergent plate boundary and the Rift is an uplifted plateau? Jackson School senior and UTIG undergrad researcher Mandala Pham, put her geology skills to use creating THE definitive geologic map of the videogame Skyrim. 🗺️ Mandala's geologic map of Skyrim02 May 2025 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo7ox7cfm22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lnleswznbc2lThis Friday on #UTIGSeminars: Natural climate swings cast a fog of uncertainty over global warming predictions. But Jud Partin and the UTIG climate group have (literally) dug into Earth's climate past and found that climate-wise, bad times are coming! Abstract & more: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series/2025/utig-seminar-series-jud-partin-university-of-texas-institute-for-geophysics/24 Apr 2025 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnleswznbc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lnjapzgmi22aCongratulations UTIG grad student Riley Garrett, on earning best Master's talk prize at yesterday's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences awards! Congratulations also to Knebel Teaching award winners Mrinal Sen, Peter Flemings and Thorsten Becker, and all the other award winners! 🤘23 Apr 2025 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnjapzgmi22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lmzkdgfe7s2kThis week on #UTIGSeminars: Greenland's ice is melting fast, but how far will glaciers retreat and how much will seas rise? Enter Allie Balter-Kennedy (LDEO) and GreenDrill, a project to recover geologic evidence of past deglaciation. Join us this Friday 10:30am CT: https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series/2025/utig-seminar-series-allie-balter-kennedy-ldeo/17 Apr 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzkdgfe7s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lmxp5rdy5k2dUTIG admins were out doing fieldwork again! This year, our plucky admins were aboard the RV Scott Petty learning to use sonar and sediment scoops to survey Lake Austin. The fieldwork is scientifically valuable and a chance for staff to get hands-on with UTIG's research. Good sciencing y'all!16 Apr 2025 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmxp5rdy5k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lmxbar7ewc2pIt's a planetary field trip! Organized by students of the Planetary Peer Network at UT Austin's Center for Planetary Systems Habitability, students and postdocs took a field trip to NASA Johnson Space Center. More on UT planetary habitability science habitability.utexas.edu Photos: Medha Prakash16 Apr 2025 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmxbar7ewc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lmx5w4py2s2pSimulations of Mars' molten core could explain the Red Planet's missing magnetic field. New research from @utaustin.bsky.social and @jhuartssciences.bsky.social: https://ig.utexas.edu/news/2025/molten-martian-core-could-explain-red-planets-magnetic-quirks/ @insideplanets.bsky.social @astrodoc.bsky.social @planetsabine.bsky.social @cyanmagnetic.bsky.social16 Apr 2025 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmx5w4py2s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/utgeophysics.bsky.social/post/3lmiietoxt226“The fact that we are seeing a warming trend means we just cross those red flag warning thresholds a lot more often than we used to.” Danielle Touma, extreme weather researcher at UTIG, talked to The Daily Texan about rising wildfire risk in Travis county. https://thedailytexan.com/2025/04/09/climate-change-seasonal-weather-factor-into-increased-wildfire-risk-in-travis-county/10 Apr 2025 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:3x3jelagm3bfbtrawxehdglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmiietoxt226