« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Speaker: Ann Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin Host: Thorsten Becker Title: Studying the earthquake cycle using InSAR and coral derived surface deformation observations Abstract: The Solomon Islands lie in one of the world’s most active subduction zones, but its… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Ann Chen

Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:00am CT

Speaker: John Aiken, Researcher, NJORD Centre for Studies of the Physics of the Earth, University of Oslo

Host: Thorsten Becker

Title: SerpRateAI: Adventures in Data Mining the Oman Ophiolite Continue Reading UTIG Special Seminar: John Aiken, University of Oslo

Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:30am CT

Speaker: Jud Partin, Research Associate Professor, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Title: Back to the Future: Ancient El Niño events in a Warming World Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Jud Partin, UTIG

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:30am CT

Speaker: Allie Balter-Kennedy, Visiting Scholar, Earth and Climate Sciences, Tufts University

Host: Benjamin Keisling

Title: Update from the GreenDrill project: Evidence for reduced northern Greenland Ice Sheet extent during the Pleistocene from subglacial rock and sediment Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Allie Balter-Kennedy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Events Friday, April 11, 2025 at 10:30am CT Speaker: Molly Patterson, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Binghamton University Host: Chris Lowery Title: Catchment sensitivities of the west and east Antarctic ice sheets to orbital forcing during the mid- to late Pliocene Abstract: The Antarctic ice sheet appears as a large, massive homogenous blob on… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Molly Patterson, Binghamton University