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 University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. See our Events Calendar for upcoming talks. Past talks are posted below and on our YouTube playlist.

October 2, 2026
Mapping ice motion beyond the Greenland ice sheet’s margins with SAR
Michalea King
University of Washington, Polar Science Center

August 28, 2026
Very Much Alive Ecosystems on Dead Hydrothermal Vent Deposits
Jason Sylvan
Texas A&M

September 4, 2026
Impacts as a Window Into The Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System
C. Adeene Denton
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow

September 11, 2026
Response of the Texas Coast to Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Holocene
John B. Anderson
Rice University

September 18, 2026
Melding, Morphing and Blending the Languages of Art, Science and Visualization
Francesca Samsel
Texas Advanced Computing Center

September 25, 2026
Cascading magmatic unrest and aseismic faulting in the Aegean Sea enabled by elastic stress relay
Taiyi Wang
University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences

October 9, 2026
TERMINUS project: Revealing near-terminus observations of subglacial drainage, sediment transport, and long-term glacial processes in West Greenland.
Ginny Catania, Benjamin Keisling, John Goff, Sean Gulick
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics