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UTIG Discussion Hour: 2021

Back catalogue of UTIG Discussion Hours. Click the images below to watch a recording of the seminar.

Fall Semester – 2021

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitle
August 31Gail Christeson, UTIGSouth Atlantic Transect Project: Pre-Expedition Drilling during Covid-19 Pandemic
September 21Charlie Zheng, UT Jackson School of GeosciencesBenthic oxygenation history of south Texas during the Austin Chalk Group deposition
October 5Zach Sickmann, UTIGProgress on “fingerprinting” the illicit sand crisis
October 26John Christian, UTIGDisentangling the roles of natural variability and anthropogenic forcing in driving rapid outlet glacier

Spring Semester – 2021

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitle
February 9Gail Christeson, UTIGThe AGU Fellow Selection Process: What I Learned From Serving on the Tectonophysics Subcommittee
March 2Joshua Russell, Brown UniversityRift-to-Drift: Uncovering the relic lithospheric signature of continental breakup offshore eastern North America
March 9Zachary Sickmann, UTIGThinking about sand mining from source to sink
March 23Dana Thomas, Dan Breecker, Evan Ramos and Michelle Tebolt, UT Jackson School of GeosciencesJSG: The GeoVISION RTX Mentor Experience
March 30Eric Goldfarb, UT Jackson School of GeosciencesPredictive Digital Rock Physics
April 6Kirk Scanlan, UTIGUsing REASON to investigate Europa plumes
April 13Jay Hariharan, Andrew Moodie, and Eric Barefoot, UT Cockrell School of Engineering & Rice UniversityBuilding Modern Tools for River Delta Simulation and Analysis
April 20Natalie Wolfenbarger, UTIGCompositional controls on the distribution of potential habitats within the ice shells of ocean worlds
April 27Monique Holt, University of UtahA thorough investigation and optimization of M(L)–M(C) as a depth discriminant
May 4Wei Wei, UTIGBathymetric and subglacial hydrological context for the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves

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