Tag: Department of Geological Sciences
May 30, 2024
“Ugly” Fossil Places Extinct Saber-Toothed Cat on Texas Coast
Important scientific finds don’t always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of a…
Read MoreMay 15, 2024
Trees on UT’s Campus Endure Droughts With Help From Leaky Pipes
Even in dry times, Waller Creek on The University of Texas at Austin campus is never without water. That’s because a significant portion of the…
Read MoreMay 7, 2024
Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability
Earthquakes are the most dramatic and noteworthy results of tectonic plate movement. They are often destructive and deadly, or at the very least physically felt…
Read MoreApril 24, 2024
Winners of Spring 2024 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Awards
Dozens of undergraduate students, graduate students, professors and staff members of the Jackson School’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences were recognized on Tuesday, April…
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2024
Research Associate Professor Cornel Olariu Wins Rare Mid-Career Award
In the 19 years Cornel Olariu has spent as a geosciences researcher at The University of Texas at Austin, he has written 85 peer-reviewed papers…
Read MoreFebruary 12, 2024
Bizarre Worm-Lizard’s Secrets Revealed in CT Scans
Amphisbaenians are strange creatures. Like worms with vertebrae, scales, a large central tooth and sometimes small forearms, these reptiles live underground, burrowing tunnels and preying…
Read MoreFebruary 8, 2024
Meet the Jackson School’s Newest Professor, Craig Martin
Don’t let the Northern English accent fool you. Craig Martin, the newest assistant professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is in fact…
Read MoreAugust 8, 2023
Progress from Delay
Over the past four days at sea, the science team has faced the following issues: The “T2P” – a temperature and pressure probe refined for the methane hydrate mission – was shelved after free-falling 6,500 feet to the bottom of the seafloor during a test run. The probe was supposed to…
Read MoreAugust 7, 2023
Geological Sciences Department Renamed to Reflect Changing Field
The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Geological Sciences has a new name: The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The new name captures…
Read MoreApril 12, 2023
Making Quakes on Campus
Researchers at the Jackson School of Geosciences sometimes investigate earthquakes by going right to the source, such as subduction zones along the coasts of Japan…
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