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July 29, 2019

New Study Reveals Layers of Textured Mantle ‘Frozen’ into North American Plate

The North American plate is a medley of geological parts that protrude into Earth’s mantle like tree branches frozen into the surface of an iced-over lake. Research from the University of Texas at Austin has proposed a new method to map these ‘frozen-in’ layers of the tectonic plate and reveal how it interacts with the […]

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories, tectonophysics-slideshow Tagged With: seismic anisotropy, Tectonics

July 19, 2019

Remembering the Apollo moon landings: Yosio Nakamura and the birth of planetary seismology

By Constantino Panagopulos Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk the surface of the moon they left behind a seismometer – a bulky instrument about the size of a milkcrate whose purpose was to detect moonquakes. Yosio Nakamura was one of the scientists involved in preparing the […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories

April 24, 2018

Field Report: Testing New Ways to Collect Data on Sourdough Rock Glacier

  The mid-latitudes of Mars are littered with numerous debris-covered glaciers, deposited some several hundred million years ago and composed of pure water ice under a surface debris layer. As a record of Martian climate history and a potential resource for future manned missions to Mars, they are of high interest to UTIG graduate students […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, homepage-slider, News, planetary-slideshow, Stories Tagged With: Alaska, glaciers, Mars, PhD students, Planetary

April 5, 2018

Cliff Frohlich Named First Senior Research Scientist Emeritus

Cliff Frohlich has had a remarkable career at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, spending 40 years studying earthquakes of all kinds, whether they start deep in the earth, at the bottom of the ocean or are caused by human activity. Frohlich’s stellar research has earned him the reputation of a pioneer, someone who […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, homepage-slider, Media Releases, News, Stories

January 5, 2018

Student Profile: Stefano Nerozzi

Stefano Nerozzi student profile

UTIG Ph.D. student Stefano Nerozzi was recently awarded an Endowed Presidential Scholarship by the George Marshall Endowment. We caught up with Stefano to learn about his work and studies here at UTIG. Degree Working Towards/Anticipated Graduation: Ph.D. Geological Sciences, May 2019 What is the focus of your studies? I study the north polar region of Mars, specifically […]

Filed Under: homepage-news, homepage-slider, Meet the UTIG Student, News, Stories Tagged With: Mars, Planetary Sciences, student profile

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