2+ hour, 18+ min ago   (163+ words) Each summer, a cohort of Jackson School students puts their geology skills and knowledge to the test during the school’s GEO 660 field camp, which takes them to outcrops across the western United States for three weeks of mapping, stratigraphy, and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (322+ words) Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have produced a new analysis of underground natural gas storage sites around the country. The analysis can help guide future expansion of natural gas storage capacity, optimize existing storage facilities, and aid…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (531+ words) The conventional story of how the Andes Mountains formed is one of tectonic plate-powered mountain building, with the range rising slowly, steadily and in-sync with plate tectonic movements along South America’s western edge. But a new study published in Nature…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (491+ words) This storm caused catastrophic flooding that killed at least 139 people, 37 of whom were children. Even for people who hadn’t lost a friend or family member in the flood, this weather event loomed large in the students’ memory, and the project…...

2+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (237+ words) Michael Sweet, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and co-program director of the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) project is the recipient of the 2026 Doris Malkin Curtis Medal by the Gulf Coast Section of…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (214+ words) More than 100 students, staff, researchers and faculty members in the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences packed inside Boyd Auditorium on Tuesday to celebrate a year of excellent work in the geosciences and to recognize individuals…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (441+ words) Dr. Mark Helper, now an emeritus distinguished senior lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, helped train every new class of NASA astronaut hopefuls since 2009, including all four of the moonfaring Artemis II astronauts: Commander…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (532+ words) Scientists have discovered geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried up ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet’s surface. The geological formation is a wide and deep coastal shelf akin to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (336+ words) Fa Li, who uses artificial intelligence to study how ecosystems on the land respond to shifts in the climate and water cycle, joined the Jackson School of Geosciences Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor this year....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (421+ words) Dapeng Feng, a hydrologist exploring the Earth’s water and its interactions with the environment, has joined the Jackson School of Geosciences Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor. Many AI methods are primarily data-driven and lack physical…...