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UTIG Seminars: Spring Semester, 2021

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

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitleHost
January 22William Frank, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe transient and intermittent nature of slow slipDemian Saffer
image showing speaker with picture from talkJanuary 29Emily Eidam, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChanges in hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics of the Coos Bay Estuary related to 150 years of modifications John Goff
February 5Tapio Schneider, California Institute of TechnologyClouds and ClimateYuko Okumura
February 12Twila Moon, University of Colorado BoulderTransformed: Observations and implications of rapid reconfiguration of the Greenland Ice SheetSophie Goliber
February 24Elizabeth Wallace, Rice UniversityHurricane and climate interactions over the past two millennia: Insights from sediment cores and climate modelsYuko Okumura
February 26Evelyn Powell, Harvard UniversityDiving Deeper into Antarctic Ice-Mantle InteractionsGinny Catania
March 3Surui Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San DiegoGeodesy at The Land Margins: Challenging yet RewardingShuoshuo Han

*This video is available on request. Please contact social@ig.utexas.edu to request access.

March 10Benjamin Keisling, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia UniversityPast as prologue: How archives help us predict the fate of Earth’s ice sheets and the future of our disciplineTim Goudge
March 12Xiaohua Xu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San DiegoProbing Earth’s Shallow Crust with Space GeodesyHarm Van Avendonk
March 17Tian Dong, Department of Geological Sciences, UT Jackson School of GeosciencesSediment Dispersal Dynamics at a Tectonically Active River DeltaJohn Goff

*This video is available on request. Please contact social@ig.utexas.edu to request access.

March 19Jessie Pearl, United States Geological SurveyMultiproxy reconstructions of late Holocene coastal climate and extreme eventsChris Lowery
March 26Ram Tuvi, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIGImposing physics-based sparsity in large scale inversion algorithmsZeyu Zhao
April 2Cyril Grima, Research Associate, UTIGDeciphering the surface and near-surface of planets with radar statisticsDon Blankenship
April 9Christopher Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionLikely weakening of the Florida Current during the past century revealed by sea-level observationsPatrick Heimbach
April 16Lauren Simkins, University of VirginiaBeyond reconstructions: paleo-perspectives on marine-ice sheet grounding line environmentsGinny Catania
April 23Tolulope Olugboji, University of RochesterSubmarine Exploration of Ocean Basins: Silencing the Singing of SedimentsThorsten Becker

*This video is available on request. Please contact social@ig.utexas.edu to request access.

April 30Jennifer B. Glass, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMicrobial interactions with gas clathrates: Implications for planetary habitabilityCornelia Rasmussen

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