New research led by recent UT Jackson School doctoral, Kris Darnell, shows that injecting air and carbon dioxide into methane ice deposits buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico could unlock vast natural gas energy resources while helping fight climate change by trapping the carbon dioxide underground.

Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars’ north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arizona...

The Austin American Statesman reported on Luc Lavier, a professor and researcher at UTIG, after Lavier was awarded the Evgueni Burov Medal by the International Lithosphere Program for mid-career achievements and service to the geophysics community.

'WOW, THAT'S AWESOME!' TEACHING PYTHON FOR GEOSCIENCES
A new course by UTIG's Gail Christeson teaches students to turn data into science with Python.
 

JAMIN GREENBAUM EARNS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP
Jamin is a postdoctoral researcher at UTIG and was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to study how quickly coastal ice is melting in East Antarctica. He will spend 12 months working and training colleagues in China beginning Spring 2020.

UTIG GRAD STUDENT EARNS FELLOWSHIP TO STUDY UNCONVENTIONALS
Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, a graduate research assistant at UTIG and a PhD student at the Jackson School, was awarded over $60,000 Equinor to study the rock properties of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.

KRIS DARNELL, PETER FLEMINGS & DAVID DICARLO
Nitrogen-driven chromatographic separation during gas Injection into hydrate-bearing sediments
Water Resource Research. June 27, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023414

STEFANO NEROZZI & JACK HOLT
Buried ice and sand caps at the north pole of Mars: revealing a record of climate change in the cavi unit with SHARAD
Geophysical Research Letters. May 22, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082114

WANYING WANG & THORSTEN BECKER
Upper mantle seismic anisotropy as a constraint for mantle flow and continental dynamics of the North American plate
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. May 15, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.019
 

WILLIAM PINKSTON & PETER FLEMINGS
Overpressure at the Macondo Well and its impact on the Deepwater Horizon blowout
Scientific Reports. May 7, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42496-0

ZEYU ZHAO & MRINAL SEN
Frequency‐domain double‐plane‐wave least‐squares reverse time migration
Geophysical Prospecting. April 29, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12803