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 5, 2025
High-Resolution Infrared Remote Sensing of Geohazards from Volcanoes to Wildfires
James Thompson
Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin
Watch Recording
November 21, 2025
Tropical Pacific decadal prediction: the role of volcanic forcing and ocean initialization
Xian Wu
Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas
November 14, 2025
Tropical high-altitude climate conditions during and after the last
glacial maximum
Meredith Kelly
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College
November 7, 2025
Rising seas: a known future, yet deeply uncertain…
Sophie Nowicki
Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and RENEW Faculty, and Director, Center for Geological and Climate Hazards, University at Buffalo
October 31, 2025
4-Dimnetional Seismology: New Dynamic Perspectives on Groundwater, Geoenergy, and Geohazards
Shujuan Mao
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Watch Recording
October 24, 2025
Comparing Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts and Costs of Electricity Generation Systems
Michael Young
Associate Dean for Research and Research Professor | Jackson School of Geosciences | Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
October 17, 2025
Greenland Ice Sheet Variability and its Implications for
Sea-level Projections
Lizz Ultee
Research Scientist, NASA Goddard
October 10, 2025
Novel Regional Modeling Approaches for Current and Future Tropical Weather and Climate
Kelly Nunez Ocasio
Assistant Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
October 3, 2025
A New Subduction Zone in the Northeast Pacific? Seismic Imaging of the Queen Charlotte plate boundary
Collin Brandl
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School
September 26, 2025
The Lifecycle of Planetary Magnetic Fields
Peter Driscoll
Staff Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Science
September 19, 2025
Minute-scale dynamics of recurrent dike intrusions in Iceland with fiber-optic geodesy
Jiaxuan Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston
September 12, 2025
Shattered Fragments: origins of evolution of Asteroid (101955) Bennu and the OSIRIS-REx Mission
Erica Jawin
Postdoctoral Research Geologist, Smithsonian Institution
September 9, 2025
Not So Permanent Permafrost
Louise Farquharson
Research Assistant Professor, University of Alaska