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January 30, 2020

Xian Wu Receives AGU’s Outstanding Student Presentation Award For El Niño Talk

Xian Wu, a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) has received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award for a talk she gave at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in December 2019. The award includes a certificate, $150 cash prize and complimentary tickets to a banquet during AGU’s next… Continue Reading Xian Wu Receives AGU’s Outstanding Student Presentation Award For El Niño Talk

Filed Under: Climate Stories, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: AGU, Outstanding Student Presentation Award, student awards, Xian Wu

July 30, 2019

Denis Felikson receives Early Career award for pioneering research on glacier thinning

Denis Felikson, a former UT graduate student, has received an early career award from the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) for research into glacier thinning that he conducted while working as a graduate research assistant at UTIG. Felikson graduated from the Department of Aerospace Engineering with a doctoral degree in 2018 and is now… Continue Reading Denis Felikson receives Early Career award for pioneering research on glacier thinning

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: awards, glaciers, glaciology, graduate students, Greenland, student awards

April 24, 2019

New Equinor Fellow Marks Next Step for UT Research into Unconventional Hydrocarbons

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is a leader in unconventional energy resources research, particularly shale reservoirs. That’s according to one of this year’s Equinor Fellows, Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, a graduate research assistant at UTIG and a PhD student at the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences, who was awarded over $60,000 to study… Continue Reading New Equinor Fellow Marks Next Step for UT Research into Unconventional Hydrocarbons

Filed Under: energy-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: Energy, Flemings Group, Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, shale, student awards, unconventional reservoirs

May 22, 2018

End of the Year Celebration

Every year UTIG takes time to recognize our staff and students at a luncheon. There we celebrate all that we accomplished this year, share stories and photos of our field work, and recognize outstanding staff. This year we honored the following people for their time at UTIG and their outstanding research. Staff Service Awards: Dan… Continue Reading End of the Year Celebration

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