Below the surface of the small town of Ames, Oklahoma, a meteor impact site spans miles. The crater is buried by sedimentary ...

Three researchers and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Jackson School of Geosciences have received top awards from the ...

Dear Jackson School community, It is with profound sadness that I am sharing with you that our former colleague, friend, and mentor Professor Emeritus Robert E….

Robert E. Dickinson Dear Jackson School community,It is with profound sadness that I am sharing with you that our former ...

Taiyi Wang, a geophysicist who studies the mechanics of earthquakes and volcanos, joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor on Aug. 1. Earthquake mechanics and ...

Associate Professor Daniella Rempe holds a 3D-printed model of the flood alarm device she is developing. Credit: Jackson School In the aftermath of the devastating July 4, 2025 floods that took 139 ...

Discolored water runs from the tap at a home in Austin’s Colony neighborhood. Credit: Bianca Guerrero For over a decade, residents of Austin’s Colony, a neighborhood in an unincorporated area of ...

The San Miguel coal mine in in Christine, Texas in 2023. Credit: Bridget Scanlon. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found that there’s a significant amount of rare earth elements ...

Land and sea data collection took place in 2014 and 2015, with Van Avendock and his team sailing on the marine seismic vessel R/V Marcus Langseth to survey the Eastern North American Margin in the ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin are working with the data center industry and other stakeholders to help manage the impact of the growing industry on Texas. Credit: iStock/quantic69 ...

Winners of the 2026 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Awards gather in Boyd Auditorium. More than 100 students, staff, researchers and faculty members in the Jackson School of Geosciences’ ...

This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater. Gale Crater is a paleolake ...