AUSTIN, Texas. Sean Gulick, research professor at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), has been named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA) at a ceremony at the GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. Gulick who is also research professor at the UT Department of Geological Sciences (DGS) was nominated for his leadership […]

Geoscience field trips can be grueling and – without the right preparation – hazardous. Research sites are often miles away from civilization, accessible only by foot or helicopter. For many, however, being surrounded by nothing but untouched nature is reward in itself. The trip to service the Mojave Broadband Seismic Experiment began on October 10 […]

In May 2018 UTIG postdoc Rob Porritt and a team of students spent six days deploying nineteen seismic sensors in the Mojave Desert. On October 11, Porritt and a second student team returned to the desert to download data and check on the sensor stations. Early data analysis shows surprising results and bodes well for […]