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/
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.
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...
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...
It wasn't easy! Armed with just a geologist's rock hammer (suspiciously like a dwarven axe), Mandala dodged werewolves and battled dragons to conduct an exhaustive geologic field survey of Tamriel's most northern province.
Find the full video on YouTube (at)ChiMandaTV.
🗺️ Contour map of Skyrim.
Find the full video on YouTube (at)ChiMandaTV.
🗺️ Contour map of Skyrim.
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It wasn't easy! Armed with just a geologist's rock hammer (suspiciously like a dwarven axe), Mandala dodged werewolves and battled dragons to conduct an exhaustive geologic field survey of Tamriel's most northern province.
Find the full video on YouTube (at)ChiMandaTV.
🗺️ Contour map of Skyrim.
Find the full video on YouTube (at)ChiMandaTV.
🗺️ Contour map of Skyrim.
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!
It'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 Prakash
More on UT planetary habitability science habitability.utexas.edu
Photos: Medha Prakash
April 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It'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 Prakash
More on UT planetary habitability science habitability.utexas.edu
Photos: Medha Prakash
FRIDAY: This week on #UTIGSeminars, Molly Patterson (SUNY Binghamton) examines connections between Earth's orbit and Antarctica through the dusty residue of long-melted icebergs!
Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
FRIDAY: This week on #UTIGSeminars, Molly Patterson (SUNY Binghamton) examines connections between Earth's orbit and Antarctica through the dusty residue of long-melted icebergs!
Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Abstract and more: ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
FRIDAY: They say nature is the best teacher. For UTIG's Sara Santos, shrimps have inspired what could be a new generation of underwater drones. And they could be perfect for exploring distant ocean worlds!
Learn more at this week's #UTIGSeminars ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Learn more at this week's #UTIGSeminars ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
April 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
FRIDAY: They say nature is the best teacher. For UTIG's Sara Santos, shrimps have inspired what could be a new generation of underwater drones. And they could be perfect for exploring distant ocean worlds!
Learn more at this week's #UTIGSeminars ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...
Learn more at this week's #UTIGSeminars ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar...