The UTIG Seminar Series is a forum for cutting-edge earth and planetary sciences attended by scientists, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the wider UT Jackson School of Geosciences. See our Events Calendar for upcoming talks. Past talks are posted below and on our YouTube playlist.
December 6, 2023
AGU Special!
Student practice talks
Talk 1: McKenzie Carlson, Graduate Research Assistant, UTIG – “Dynamic triggering of near-trench slow slip at the Hikurangi subduction zone documented in IODP borehole observatories”
Talk 2: Medha Prakash, Graduate Research Assistant, UTIG – “Remote Sensing Investigations of Suevite in Schrödinger Basin”
Talk 3: Mercedes Jordan, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UTIG – “Utilizing Heterogeneities in Lunar Radar Sounder Surface Reflectivity to Identify Metallic Oxides in the Procellarum KREEP Terrane”
Talk 4: Julia Miller, Visiting Graduate Student, ETH Zurich – “Preconditions of wildfires vary within Europe”
November 22, 2024
On wet rocky worlds – How does origin of life research impact space exploration efforts at ocean worlds?
Eloi Camprubi-Casas
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
November 15, 2024
A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: the PI-LAB experiment
Kate Rychert
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
November 8, 2024
Constraints on the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Antarctic Ice Recorded in Subglacial Rocks: A Case Study from the Late Miocene
Gavin Piccione
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environment and Society, Brown University
November 1, 2024
Echoes from the edge of Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica: from tectonics to ice flow dynamics
Marianne Karplus
Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso
October 25, 2024
Improving Subduction Zone Hazards Assessments Using the Coastal Stratigraphic Record
Tina Dura
Assistant Professor of Natural Hazards, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
October 18, 2024
Curious Planetary Dynamos: Insights from Saturn and Jupiter
Chi Yan
Research Associate, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
October 11, 2024
Shifting sands: How humans and climate keep river deltas on the move
Brandee Carlson
Assistant Professor, Geomorphology, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston
September 27, 2024
Mechanisms for generating fluid overpressure at the trench of subduction zones and implications for megathrust weakening
Maria Nikolinakou
Research Professor, UT Bureau of Economic Geology
September 20, 2024
Antarctic ice sheet stability during warm periods: integrating numerical modeling with geologic data
Ruthie Halberstadt
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UT Jackson School of Geosciences
September 13, 2024
Adapting WRF-Hydro for Use in Land Surface Hazard Applications
Daniel Horton
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Northwestern University
September 6, 2024
Seafloor Sediment Dynamics on Ocean Worlds
Perianne Johnson
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics