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 University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. See our Events Calendar for upcoming talks. Past talks are posted below and on our YouTube playlist.
March 27, 2026
Improving Earthquake Stress Drop Estimates to Constrain Rupture Dynamics and Fault Heterogeneity
Rachel Abercrombie
Earth and Environment, Boston University
March 13, 2026
Obtaining paleomagnetic time-series records from corals
Craig Martin
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
March 6, 2026
Beyond ice thickness: Toward spatially-distributed measurements of 3D englacial structure, ice-sheet vertical velocity, and crystal-orientation fabric
Andrew Hoffman
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
February 27, 2026
Population dynamics of methane-cycling microorganisms in subseafloor sediments
Mark Lever
Marine Science Institute,
The University of Texas at Austin
February 20, 2026
Transport processes in planetary oceans: Quantifying energy and nutrient delivery for habitability
Elizabeth Spiers
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
February 13, 2026
Enhancement of ice melting rates in isotropic turbulence
Blair Johnson
Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin
February 6, 2026
Insights into Mars’s magnetic history from meteorite and impact basin magnetism
Sarah Steele
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
January 30, 2026
The power of tiny earthquakes: Low-frequency earthquakes track the motion of a captured slab fragment at the Mendocino Triple Junction
David Shelley
United States Geological Survey
January 23, 2026
SWOT Wide-Swath Altimetry: A New Era for Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics
Jinbo Wang
Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
January 16, 2026
Studying the earthquake cycle using InSAR and coral derived surface deformation observations
Ann Chen
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin