By Kristin Phillips. After months spent carefully combining black steel plates, delicate sensors, and five hydraulic jacks into a device that mimics the sliding of tectonic plates past each other, a team of researchers and graduate students successfully made an earthquake in the lab on November 7, 2022. Continue Reading Making Quakes in Austin, Texas
Antoniette Greta Grima: ‘Bam! It broke in two and went on its own sweet way as if nothing had happened’
UTIG’s postdoc on discovering a new kind of tectonic behavior. GEOPHYSICS Q&A Before joining the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Antoniette Greta Grima discovered a previously unknown tectonic plate behavior that she called ‘slab orphaning.’ The process, which occurs 660 kilometers (410 miles) under the Earth’s surface, describes the way tectonic plates — or… Continue Reading Antoniette Greta Grima: ‘Bam! It broke in two and went on its own sweet way as if nothing had happened’
From the Field: Installing Seismic Sensors in the Mojave Desert
Rob Porritt, a UTIG postdoc, along with three UT Geology undergraduate students traveled to the Mojave desert in California in May to deploy 19 broadband seismic sensors. All were successfully placed over the course of six arduous days in the desert. “This was by far the hardest deployment I’ve ever done,” said Rob. “We stressed… Continue Reading From the Field: Installing Seismic Sensors in the Mojave Desert
Lucas Beem’s Origin Story: How He Became a Climate Scientist
Meet one of UTIG’s newest postdoctoral fellows. Continue Reading Lucas Beem’s Origin Story: How He Became a Climate Scientist
Chris Lowery: UTIG’s first ever Richard T. Buffler postdoctoral fellow
Chris Lowery turned his love of the outdoors into a career. As a postdoctoral fellow he’s helping define UTIG’s presence in the Gulf of Mexico. Continue Reading Chris Lowery: UTIG’s first ever Richard T. Buffler postdoctoral fellow