University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
@utgeophysics.bsky.social
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.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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At this week's #utigseminars Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Texas A&M University. Abstract and more at ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
At this week's #utigseminars Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Texas A&M University. Abstract and more at ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Abstract and more:https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-erica-jawin-smithsonian-institution/
Abstract and more:https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-erica-jawin-smithsonian-institution/
September 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
At this week's #UTIGSeminars!
Abstract and more:https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-erica-jawin-smithsonian-institution/
Abstract and more:https://ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-erica-jawin-smithsonian-institution/
At 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/
Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-louise-farquharson-university-of-alaska/
September 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
At 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/
Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/events/utig-seminar-series-fall-2025/utig-seminar-series-louise-farquharson-university-of-alaska/
READ: 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!🐉
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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: explorer.aapg.org/story/articl...
Mother of Plays: Daenerys, Far South and the Gulf’s Miocene Future
It’s Miocene again in America. Offshore America, anyway. BP brought the Gulf’s deepwater Miocene play back into the headlines with its Far South oil discovery, announced in April. The Green Canyon-are...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
READ: 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: explorer.aapg.org/story/articl...
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: explorer.aapg.org/story/articl...
It'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: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change.
Read more: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
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May 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It'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: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change.
Read more: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
UTIG 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.
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.
May 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
UTIG 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.
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.
Scientists 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: eos.org/science-upda...
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Ocean Current Affairs in the Gulf of Mexico - Eos
Multinational and multidisciplinary studies of the past and present of the Gulf’s Loop Current are helping to reveal what might be in store for coastal communities.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Scientists 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: eos.org/science-upda...
Read more: eos.org/science-upda...
Mars 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: ig.utexas.edu/homepage-new...
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: ig.utexas.edu/homepage-new...
UT Austin Grad Students Find Missing Link in Early Martian Water Cycle - UT Institute for Geophysics
Billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface of Mars. But scientists have an incomplete picture of how the Red Planet’s water cycle worked. That could soon change after two graduate students at ...
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May 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Mars 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: ig.utexas.edu/homepage-new...
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: ig.utexas.edu/homepage-new...
Be 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: ig.utexas.edu/student-oppo...
Students will assist GBDS researchers and will have opportunities to pursue independent research.
Learn more and apply: ig.utexas.edu/student-oppo...
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Be 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: ig.utexas.edu/student-oppo...
Students will assist GBDS researchers and will have opportunities to pursue independent research.
Learn more and apply: ig.utexas.edu/student-oppo...
40 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:
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May 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
40 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:
give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ...
give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ...
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On 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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
May 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On 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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
On 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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On 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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
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: ig.utexas.edu/tag/lake-aus...
Did 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 Skyrim
🗺️ Mandala's geologic map of Skyrim
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Did 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 Skyrim
🗺️ Mandala's geologic map of Skyrim
This 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:
ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
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:
ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
April 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This 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:
ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
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:
ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Congratulations 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! 🤘
Congratulations also to Knebel Teaching award winners Mrinal Sen, Peter Flemings and Thorsten Becker, and all the other award winners! 🤘
April 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Congratulations 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! 🤘
Congratulations also to Knebel Teaching award winners Mrinal Sen, Peter Flemings and Thorsten Becker, and all the other award winners! 🤘
This 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: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Join us this Friday 10:30am CT: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
April 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This 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: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Join us this Friday 10:30am CT: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
UTIG 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!
The fieldwork is scientifically valuable and a chance for staff to get hands-on with UTIG's research. Good sciencing y'all!
April 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
UTIG 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!
The fieldwork is scientifically valuable and a chance for staff to get hands-on with UTIG's research. Good sciencing y'all!