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May 30, 2018

Life Recovered Rapidly at Impact Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and snuffed out 75 percent of life. Although the asteroid killed off species, new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the crater it left behind was home to […]

Filed Under: Media Releases, News Tagged With: Chicxulub, Chris Lowery, dinosaur extinction, forams, IODP

August 29, 2015

Studying the Indonesian Throughflow

UTIG’s Craig Fulthorpe acted as co-chief scientist of IODP expedition 356.

Filed Under: climate-slideshow, News Tagged With: Australia, field work, Indonesian Throughflow, IODP

May 6, 2015

UTIG Senior Research Scientist Named As Chair of IODP Forum

University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) Senior Research Scientist Jamie Austin has been named the next chair of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Forum. According to the official IODP website, the IODP Forum is “a venue for exchanging ideas and views on the scientific progress of the International Ocean Discovery Program. The Forum is the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: honors, International Ocean Discovery Program, IODP, Jackson School of Geosciences, oceanography, University of Texas, UTIG

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