A special event celebrating 50 years of global leadership in geophysical research and discovery.
November 30, 2022
1:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Thank you to everyone who came to UTIG’s anniversary symposium, it was a great success! Old friends, new faces, and future scientists joined an afternoon of reflection, celebration and fun.
The program featured a history of UTIG presented by senior research scientists, Jamie Austin and Ian Dalziel, and short science talks that highlighted a new generation of geophysical researchers. The symposium concluded with a student poster session and reception.
UTIG Seminar Room, ROC 1.603
1:15
Director’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
1:20
UTIG@50: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
New and Emerging Science Directions: Highlights from our Research Staff
2:35
Advanced Marine Electromagnetic Systems and Modeling Techniques to Image Earth in High Resolution
2:55
Methane Hydrates at the University of Texas: Expeditions & Geo-material Behavior
3:35
From the Bed of Greenland to the Future of Geoscience: New Insights from Forgotten Archives
3:55
Discussion
UTIG Lobby, First Floor ROC
4:00 — 6:00
Reception & Graduate Student Poster Session
Graduate Student Posters
Kevin Shionalyn
Forecasting Glacier Terminus Retreat Using Machine Learning
Carson Miller
Identifying Paleo-Barrier Island Deposits to Understand Drowning and Preservation Potential
Eric Hiatt
Limited Recharge of the Highlands Aquifer on Early Mars
Simone Puel
An Adjoint-Based Optimization Method to Infer Coseismic Slip and Heterogeneous Material Properties from Earthquake Surface Deformation Data
Ethan Conrad
Deformation and Exhumation at Oblique Margins: A Study of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary In The Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
Mikayla Pascual
Seasonality with a Chance of Retreat: Quantifying the Impact of Seasonal Forcings on the Timing of Greenland Ice Sheet Outlet Glacier Terminus Retreat
Graciela Lopez Campos
The Evolution of Pore Pressure, Stress, and Physical Properties During Sediment Accretion at Subduction Zones
Natalie Wolfenbarger
Relict Water Bodies in the Icy Shell of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Kaitlin Schaible
In Situ Stress within the Nankai Accretionary Prism Determined from Borehole Breakouts
Shuai Yan
Poster 1: The COLDEX Regional Aerogeophysical Survey for Oldest Ice Core Candidate Site Selection, Plans For 2022/23;
Poster 2: Geologic Controls on Subglacial Thermal Conditions and Old Ice Preservation from a COLDEX Perspective
The 50th Anniversary & Celebration is open to current and former members of UTIG, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Bureau of Economic Geology and everyone at the Jackson School of Geosciences. Friends and family are welcome.
For more information, please contact us at social@ig.utexas.edu.