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April 12, 2021

UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion

A picture of windswept sand dunes at McFaddin beach. Overwash is visible but plants growing in the dunes are largely intact.

Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 in search of sunken treasure that holds the key to protecting Texas from storms and rising seas: sand. About 80% of Texas’ Gulf shoreline is critically eroded, and the state is running out of easily accessible sand to rebuild and… Continue Reading UT Begins Offshore Search for Sand Resources to Protect Texas from Coastal Erosion

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: CEPRA, Chris Lowery, coastal erosion, coastal protection, coastal resources, hurricanes, John Goff, marine geoscience, MG&G, sand, sand resources, Sea Level Rise, Sean Gulick, storm surge, storms, Texas, Texas coast, Texas GLO, Trinity River, Trinity Valley

March 17, 2021

Dunyu Liu: Computational Geoscientist

Dunyu Liu at Crater Lake.

MEET THE SCIENTIST Dunyu Liu is a computational geoscientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), and the first official hire to support computational science activities across UTIG. A seismologist by training, Liu is helping build bridges between geophysical research and high performance computing. In 2008, when Dunyu Liu was an undergraduate, a… Continue Reading Dunyu Liu: Computational Geoscientist

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: CESM, climate models, computational geoscience, Dunyu Liu, earthquakes, finite element method, Lonestar5, supercomputers, TACC, Wenchuan

December 17, 2020

Greenland ‘Knickpoints’ Could Stall Spread of Glacial Thinning

A picture of Kangilliup Sermia, a glacier in Greenland

The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that included scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and NASA. Outlet glaciers protrude from the ice sheet into the sea, where surging ocean heat can speed up the loss… Continue Reading Greenland ‘Knickpoints’ Could Stall Spread of Glacial Thinning

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December 10, 2020

New Certificate Program Brings Machine Learning to Geosciences

Map of the Bahamas with geological features

By Constantino Panagopulos A new certificate program at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences will build critical skills for the geosciences workforce by training students and professionals to use modern data analytics tools and machine learning. Machine learning – a kind of artificial intelligence – helps geoscientists make better use of… Continue Reading New Certificate Program Brings Machine Learning to Geosciences

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: Ben Rendall, Daniel Trugman, machine learning, Mrinal Sen, Texas Geosciences

January 10, 2020

LIONESS in the Field 1: The Long Journey South

UTIG polar researchers Dillon Buhl, Anja Rutishauser and Natalie Wolfenbarger have joined colleagues in West Antarctica to conduct vital surveys of one of the most unstable glaciers on Earth. The team are part of LIONESS, an international collaboration between The University of Texas at Austin, Montana State University and the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI),… Continue Reading LIONESS in the Field 1: The Long Journey South

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: Anja Rutishauser, Antarctica, field work, LIONESS, LIONESS Blog, Thwaites Glacier

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