Richard Denne has been named the new program director for the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) program at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. GBDS is a long-running research partnership with the energy industry. Prior to his role at GBDS, Denne was an industry geologist for over 25 years before joining Texas Christian University… Continue Reading New Director Joins UT Gulf Basin Energy Partnership
Quantifying Chaos
Extreme weather is becoming more costly. The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and insurance services company Verisk have teamed up to better understand where, when and why extreme weather happens, and its future in a warming climate. BY CONSTANTINO PANAGOPULOS When Storm Ciarán slammed into Europe in November 2023, it battered the continent with… Continue Reading Quantifying Chaos
Into the Glacial Abyss
In summer 2024, a Greenland expedition led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics dove into an undiscovered frontier in search of answers about future sea level rise BY CONSTANTINO PANAGOPULOS On the far western edge of Greenland’s ice sheet, a large glacier leads to the sea, where it breaks against the water like… Continue Reading Into the Glacial Abyss
Helping the Karuk Tribe in California Prepare for Climate Challenges
UTIG’s Danielle Touma is winner of the 2024 Women In Science Incentive Prize. The award’s theme this year was extreme weather. This story by Lucy Sherriff at The Story Exchange goes into Touma’s work helping the Karuk Tribe manage wildfires in California. Danielle Touma is no stranger to drought. The research professor at University of… Continue Reading Helping the Karuk Tribe in California Prepare for Climate Challenges
Uranus’s Swaying Moons will Help Spacecraft Seek Out Hidden Oceans
When NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans to send another spacecraft to Uranus, this time equipped to see if those icy moons are hiding liquid water oceans. The mission is still in an early planning stage. But researchers… Continue Reading Uranus’s Swaying Moons will Help Spacecraft Seek Out Hidden Oceans
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