Spotlights

UTIG Is Hiring!

UTIG is seeking applicants for a position as a senior research scientist who would serve as the Shell Chair in Geophysics. We are also seeking applicants for two postdoctoral research positions to study methane hydrates in geological systems.

Grad Student on Expedition to Study the Indian Monsoon and Climate Change

UTIG PhD student, Kaustubh Thirumalai, joins the JOIDES Resolution as it explores the Bay of Bengal in an effort to better understand the Indian monsoon. Read more.

Massive Geographic Change May Have Triggered Explosion of Animal Life

A paper by UTIG scientist, Ian Dalziel, published in the November issue of Geology, a journal of the Geological Society of America, suggests a major tectonic event may have triggered the rise in sea level and other environmental changes that accompanied the apparent burst of life. Read about it.

UTIG Scientist To Lead $58 Million Effort To Study Potential New Energy Source

UTIG research scientist, Peter Flemings, leads a research team that has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze deposits of frozen methane under the Gulf of Mexico that hold enormous potential to increase the world's energy supply. Find out more.

Evolving Plumbing System Beneath Greenland Slows Ice Sheet as Summer Progresses

UTIG student, Lauren Andrews, her supervisor, Ginny Catania, and their colleagues have for the first time directly observed multiple parts of Greenland's subglacial plumbing system and how that system evolves each summer to slow down the ice sheet's movement toward the sea. Read more.