Taiyi Wang Taiyi Wang, a geophysicist who studies the mechanics of earthquakes and volcanos, joined the Department of Earth ...

About the Awards Recognizing the people who make the Jackson School exceptional. The Jackson School of Geosciences Walter Awards recognize top talent among the s ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale has developed a new educational board game about reef ecology, evolution, extinction, and resilience (Martindale et al., 2024)! The game can be modified for any time period with ...

Our team studies the connection between Earth and life through geological time; more specifically, our research elucidates the evolutionary and environmental events that have shaped ecosystems through ...

Marc Hesse is a computational geoscientist interested in the dynamics of porous media in geological and environmental processes. Due to his broad training, his work bridges both the classical ...

Most geological materials are porous and the dynamics of flow, deformation, and reactions in porous media control energy and mass transport in many geological and environmental processes. The ...

The shelf-margin database summarize characteristics of 28 studied margins sedimentary prisms. Each of these margine xamples contains information on:(1) Basin setting; (2) the magnitude of supply ...

Larger plastic fragments and other debris pulled from a sediment sample taken from along the Texas coast. Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences / Institute for Geophysics. From tiny pellets to creepy ...

Organic compounds in natural waters are thought to interact at the silicate surface and accelerate mineral weathering processes. Natural and contaminating organic acids produce protons which ...

An ash landfill in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Recent research by The University of Texas at Austin tallied up the potential rare earth elements that could be extracted from coal ash around the country ...

Lyman Lake in Arizona stores water from the Little Colorado River. Pictured here in 2021, the lake was 30 feet below capacity. Photo by Ted Wood/The Water Desk The Southwest United States is currently ...

What roils beneath the Earth’s surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...