The UTIG Seminar Series is a forum for cutting-edge earth and planetary sciences attended by scientists, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the wider UT Jackson School of Geosciences. See our Events Calendar for upcoming talks. Past talks are posted below and on our YouTube playlist.
December 2, 2022
AGU Special!
Talk 1: Charles Babendreier, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics – “Massive submarine landslides imaged offshore southern Oregon”
Talk 2: Eric Hiatt, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics – “Limited Recharge on Early Martian Aquifers: Numeric & Analytic Recharge Rate Estimates As Constrained By Geomorphic and Geochemical Observations”
November 18, 2022
Solarpunk futures | Post-nihilist solutions to the climate crisis emerging from the synthesis of art and environmental science
Mika Tosca
Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Robert A Pritzker Visiting Scientist, Francis W. Parker School
November 11, 2022
Earthquake deformation in a viscoelastic Earth
Kelin Wang
Research Scientist, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada
November 4, 2022
Warm climate surprises: from an enhanced frequency of Sudden Stratospheric Warming events to a wet future California
Eli Tziperman
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
October 28, 2022
Fiber-optic seismology in volcanic, glacial and other challenging environments
Andreas Fichtner
Professor of Seismology & Wave Physics, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zürich
October 21, 2022
Passive Radar Investigations for Terrestrial and Planetary Radio Glaciology
Sean Peters
Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
October 14, 2022
Linking heterogeneous expressions of subduction along the Cascadia margin
Jonathan Delph
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University
October 7, 2022
Mixing in a Changing Arctic Ocean
Kiki Schulz
Research Fellow, Computational Research in Ice and Ocean Systems Group, UT Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences
September 30, 2022
Descent into the icehouse: how overlooked species of planktonic foraminifera maintained community structure through the middle Eocene
Lorna Kearns
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Institute of Geophysics
September 23, 2022
Interactions between Mantle Convection, Plate Tectonics, and Material Recycling in the Earth’s Interior
Juliane Dannberg
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida
September 16, 2022
Sedimentary Record of Ice-Ocean Interactions at Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica: Why all the Fuss about Tipping Points & Doomsday Glaciers?
Julia Wellner
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Houston
September 9, 2022
The Morphology of Alluvial Sand Dunes
Julia Cisneros
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Affiliate, The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences
September 2, 2022
A 3D Look at Subducting Seamounts along the N. Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, and Implications for Fault Slip
Nathan Bangs
Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
August 26, 2022
Automate Glacier Terminus Picking from Big Data based on Deep Learning
Enze Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics