« 2026 Spring Seminar Series At the request of Dr. Johnson, this talk will not be recorded. Please email Dr. Blair Johnson for more information about her talk and her work. Speaker: Blair Johnson, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Enhancement of ice melting rates in… Continue Reading UTIG Seminar Series: Blair Johnson

« 2026 Spring Seminar Series Watch the recording 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… 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