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December 27, 2021

Blue Sky

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Changing the World with High-Risk, High-Reward Research By Constantino Panagopulos Sometimes, to make a discovery, a scientist must take a chance on an idea, let it free into the sky and see where it lands. At the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), visionary thinking is recognized and encouraged among its researchers and indeed… Continue Reading Blue Sky

Filed Under: homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: acoustic sensors, Alaska, Blue Sky program, Hubbard glacier, Lady Bird Lake, Lake Austin, Newsletter stories, sand

December 13, 2021

Fred Taylor: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus

NOVEMBER 1, 2021 Fred Taylor joined the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics in 1981 with plans to use corals to investigate big questions in geosciences. He made good on that plan, conducting coral research that has unlocked mysteries and earned him a reputation as a pioneering scientist. Now retired and a senior research scientist… Continue Reading Fred Taylor: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus

Filed Under: homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: corals, Fred Taylor, Newsletter stories, Vanuatu

December 8, 2021

UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

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Catch up with your colleagues. Find out whose doing what at AGU Fall with our (nearly) comprehensive schedule of talks and posters from current (and recent) UTIG research staff and students. Continue Reading UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: AGU

December 6, 2021

Are Deep Fluids Behind the Largest Earthquakes? ‘Not So Fast!’ Says UT Graduate Student

A fishing boat sits among litter strewn streets and damaged buildings..

Sandwiched between tectonic plates are layers of material that show up as thin shadows on seismic tomography, a kind of CT scan of the Earth. For years, scientists assumed the anomalies were signs of highly pressurized water squeezed into densely packed rock and that the fluid acted as a kind of hair-trigger on earthquake faults.… Continue Reading Are Deep Fluids Behind the Largest Earthquakes? ‘Not So Fast!’ Says UT Graduate Student

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Demian Saffer, earth hazards, earthquakes, Peter Miller, seismic anisotropy, seismicity, student research, subduction zones

November 16, 2021

Seismic Shockwave Pattern May Be Redirecting Earthquake Damage

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New research from The University of Texas at Austin could change the way scientists think about potential damage from earthquakes. The study examined data from one of the densest seismic arrays ever deployed and found that earthquakes emit their strongest seismic shockwaves in four opposing directions. The effect, which leaves a pattern resembling a four-leaf… Continue Reading Seismic Shockwave Pattern May Be Redirecting Earthquake Damage

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: Daniel Trugman, double couple, earthquakes, fault roughness, faults, Oklahoma, radial pattern

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