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.

February 6, 2026
Insights into Mars’s magnetic history from meteorite and impact basin magnetism
Sarah Steele
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

January 30, 2026
The power of tiny earthquakes: Low-frequency earthquakes track the motion of a captured slab fragment at the Mendocino Triple Junction
David Shelley
United States Geological Survey

