In summer 2024, a Greenland expedition led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics dove into an undiscovered frontier in search of answers about future sea level rise BY CONSTANTINO PANAGOPULOS On the far western edge of Greenland’s ice sheet, a large glacier leads to the sea, where it breaks against the water like… Continue Reading Into the Glacial Abyss
New Imaging Technique Uses Earth’s Warped Surface To Reveal Rocky Interior
Surface mapping technology such as GPS, radar and laser scanning have long been used to measure features on the Earth’s surface. Now, a new computational technique developed at The University of Texas at Austin is allowing scientists to use those technologies to look inside the planet. The new technique, described by researchers as “deformation imaging,”… Continue Reading New Imaging Technique Uses Earth’s Warped Surface To Reveal Rocky Interior
Fire and Ice: Undergrad Researcher Explores Wildfires in the Alaskan Tundra
By Freja Cini Mandala Pham is a double major undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, where she studies geophysics at the Jackson School of Geosciences and history at the College of Liberal Arts. She also works as an undergraduate research assistant at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, where she studies… Continue Reading Fire and Ice: Undergrad Researcher Explores Wildfires in the Alaskan Tundra
Recreating Chicxulub’s Post-Impact Hydrothermal System
Student Spotlight By Freja Cini Graduate student Soraya Alfred studies hydrothermal fluid flow at impact craters to understand their role in life on Earth and on other planets. How long did it take for life to bounce back after an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs? That’s what Soraya Alfred — a graduate research assistant… Continue Reading Recreating Chicxulub’s Post-Impact Hydrothermal System
Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealand’s Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
Researchers have discovered a sea’s worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau that’s now deep in the Earth’s crust. Revealed by a 3D seismic image, the water lies two miles under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake… Continue Reading Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealand’s Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
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