Understanding the Earth and other planets to solve key problems that affect us all. The world needs geophysicists!
Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:00am CT
Speaker: John Aiken, Researcher, NJORD Centre for Studies of the Physics of the Earth, University of Oslo
Host: Thorsten Becker
Title: SerpRateAI: Adventures in Data Mining the Oman Ophiolite Continue Reading UTIG Special Seminar: John Aiken, University of Oslo
We are looking for an undergraduate research assistant (URA) who will contribute to the Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis Project (GBDS). The URA will work with geophysical and geological data, geographic information systems, geosoftware and scientific literature to accomplish GBDS research goals. This position is only open to undergraduate students at The University of… Continue Reading URA: Geoscience Undergraduate Research Assistant for GBDS
What roils beneath the Earth’s surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, scientists believe that a plume of hot rocks that burst from the Earth’s mantle millions of years ago could be an important… Continue Reading How Activity in Earth’s Mantle Led the Ancient Ancestors of Elephants, Giraffes, and Humans into Asia and Africa
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:30am CT
Speaker: Jud Partin, Research Associate Professor, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Title: Back to the Future: Ancient El Niño events in a Warming World Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Jud Partin, UTIG
Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:30am CT
Speaker: Allie Balter-Kennedy, Visiting Scholar, Earth and Climate Sciences, Tufts University
Host: Benjamin Keisling
Title: Update from the GreenDrill project: Evidence for reduced northern Greenland Ice Sheet extent during the Pleistocene from subglacial rock and sediment Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Allie Balter-Kennedy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
