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.

August 28, 2026
Very Much Alive Ecosystems on Dead Hydrothermal Vent Deposits
Jason Sylvan
Texas A&M

September 4, 2026
Impacts as a Window Into The Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System
Adeene Denton
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow

September 11, 2026
Response of the Texas Coast to Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Holocene
John B. Anderson
W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Rice University