« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Speaker: Elizabeth Spiers, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Title: Transport processes in planetary oceans: Quantifying energy and nutrient delivery for habitability Host: Peter Flemings Abstract: The habitability of planetary oceans depends on transport processes that can deliver energy and nutrients to a potential biosphere. The rates of these processes… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Elizabeth Spiers
UTIG Seminar Series: Mark Lever
« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Speaker: Mark Lever, Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Population dynamics of methane-cycling microorganisms in subseafloor sediments Host: Kehua You Abstract: Marine sediments harbor Earth’s biggest reservoir of methane. The episodic release of this methane to the atmosphere has been linked to climatic shifts in Earth’s… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Mark Lever
UTIG Seminar Series: Blair Johnson
« 2026 Spring Seminar Series At the request of Dr. Johnson, this talk will not be recorded. Please email Dr. Blair Johnson for more information about her talk and her work. Speaker: Blair Johnson, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Enhancement of ice melting rates in… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Blair Johnson
UTIG Seminar Series: Sarah Steele
« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Watch the recording Speaker: Sarah Steele, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Title: Insights into Mars’s magnetic history from meteorite and impact basin magnetism Host: Chi Yan Abstract: Mars’s early magnetic dynamo may have played a key role in the planet’s climatic evolution and habitability, with its termination potentially triggering… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Sarah Steele
Evidence of ‘lightning-fast’ evolution found after dino-killing asteroid impact
The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new research shows that it also set the stage for life to rebound astonishingly quickly. New species of plankton appeared fewer than 2,000… Continue Reading Evidence of ‘lightning-fast’ evolution found after dino-killing asteroid impact