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September 5, 2016

Texas Oceanographers are Considering How Perception of Color Affects Their Scientific Findings

UTIG graduate research assistant Chad Greene was part of a research team from Texas to present a new paper aimed at getting scientists to think as seriously about color as they do about language. The research group notes that there exists a double standard in research, where language which is perfectly accurate, can still be called out by a reviewer for not being scientific enough, whereas inaccuracies in figures run rampant

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: color, oceanography, UTIG

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

April 30, 2014

The “Flowers” at the Bottom of the Sea

London’s Mail Online today features a fascinating report from the researchers aboard the NOAA Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico. What initially was thought to be a shipwreck site on the ocean floor turned out to be an asphalt volcano, then a second was discovered. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics researcher Jamie Austin is among those […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: geophysics, geoscience, NOAA, oceanography, Okeanos Explorer, sea exploration, Texas, University of Texas, UTIG, volcanoes

April 10, 2014

UTIG Research Scientist Aboard NOAA Expedition

NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer

The Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin has one of its scientists aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) vessel Okeanos Explorer on an expedition to conduct exploratory investigations on the diversity and distribution of deep-sea habitats and marine life in the Gulf of Mexico basin. Jamie Austin, a senior […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: geophysics, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, oceanography, University of Texas, UTIG

February 27, 2014

UTIG at Work on Totten Expedition

Researchers look out over front of the Vessel

  Several UTIG researchers are part of the Totten Expedition, currently in East Antarctica aboard the RVIB Palmer. The expedition left Hobart, Tasmania, on January 29, with its first destination being the Mertz Glacier area. Last week, the expedition traveled to the Totten Glacier area east of Law Dome, and continued its work there. UTIG […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Antarctica, Colgate University, Columbia University, geophysics, oceanography, research, science, Texas A&M University, Totten Expedition, University of South Florida

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