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June 3, 2020

Climate scientist moves research online, while learning to homeschool

On March 13, 2020, like most labs at The University of Texas at Austin, the Jackson School’s Analytical Laboratory for Paleoclimate Studies powered down instruments, stored samples and suspended operations. The lab’s research team gathered what data they could and took their work online. For Jud Partin, a UTIG research associate who leads the research […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Covid-19, Jud Partin, Quarantine, Texas Geosciences

May 1, 2020

What spending a season in Antarctica can tell you about self-isolation

By Dillon Buhl Dillon Buhl is a UTIG polar research engineering associate with four Antarctic research expeditions under his belt. His latest trip to investigate a massive melting glacier in West Antarctica, ended not long before social distancing measures began in the U.S. Here, he compares his experiences in the field with quarantine. I’ve been […]

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news Tagged With: Antarctica, Covid-19, Dillon Buhl, Quarantine

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