« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Speaker: Sarah Steele, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Title: Insights into Mars’s magnetic history from meteorite and impact basin magnetism Host: Chi Yan Abstract: Mars’s early magnetic dynamo may have played a key role in the planet’s climatic evolution and habitability, with its termination potentially triggering the shift to… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Sarah Steele

« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Watch the recording Speaker: David Shelley, United States Geological Survey Title: The power of tiny earthquakes: Low-frequency earthquakes track the motion of a captured slab fragment at the Mendocino Triple Junction Host: Chao Song Abstract: The transition between the San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia subduction zone at the Mendocino triple… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: David Shelley

« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Watch the recording Speaker: Jinbo Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University Title: SWOT Wide-Swath Altimetry: A New Era for Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics Host: Patrick Heimbach Abstract: Ocean submesoscale dynamics (roughly 1–100 km) modulate vertical exchanges of heat, carbon, nutrients, and momentum, yet have historically been difficult to… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Jinbo Wang