« 2026 Spring Seminar Series 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 the shift to… 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
UTIG Seminar Series: David Shelley
« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Speaker: David Shelley, United States Geological Survey Title: The power of tiny earthquakes: Low-frequency earthquakes track the motion of a captured slab fragment at the Mendocino Triple Junction Host: Chao Song Abstract: The transition between the San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia subduction zone at the Mendocino triple junction is critical… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: David Shelley
UTIG Seminar Series: Jinbo Wang
« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Watch the recording Speaker: Jinbo Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University Title: SWOT Wide-Swath Altimetry: A New Era for Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics Host: Patrick Heimbach Abstract: Ocean submesoscale dynamics (roughly 1–100 km) modulate vertical exchanges of heat, carbon, nutrients, and momentum, yet have historically been difficult to… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Jinbo Wang
GBDS Kicks Off a New Era of Gulf Exploration at 2026 Annual Meeting
This year marks the beginning of Phase 16 of the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) research project. This phase of GBDS’s mission will focus on two broad research themes: the stratigraphic evolution of the Gulf Basin and understanding emerging energies and critical minerals in the Gulf. GBDS will also continue its long-time work of producing and maintaining a detailed, comprehensive, and integrated synthesis of the depositional history of the entire Gulf basin. Founded at the University of… Continue Reading GBDS Kicks Off a New Era of Gulf Exploration at 2026 Annual Meeting