“Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.” -Mike Tyson This past week, we got punched in the mouth. Heading into this expedition, I had expectations somewhere between optimistic and unrealistic. We came out here with the ability to bring back 20 pressure cores. Somewhere along the way I convinced myself that […]
What Starts Here Impacts the World
UTIG research activity pumps more than $25 million into the Texas economy, all while uncovering new knowledge that helps us understand and live in our world. What starts in Texas has global impacts! Explore where we’ve done our research since 1972 in the maps below, organized by region and periods of time.
GOM^2 Blog Entry 4: Depth to Seafloor
This post is a part of a series from the Genesis of Methane Hydrate in Coarse-Grained Systems: Northern Gulf of Mexico Slope (GOM^2) expedition. By Peter Polito It seems like figuring out the sea floor depth would be pretty easy with the luxury of modern technology: Sonar, seismic, acoustic, etc. However, at the end of the day […]