Posts for tag "University of Texas"
Revolutionizing Conventional Solar Water Evaporation With Hydrogels
Researchers have created a low-cost, scalable hydrogel for use in desalination systems that produces more drinking water using less energy.
- Posted May 22, 2018
Wild Whooping Cranes and Wide Open Spaces: Mission-Aransas NERR Shows Unique Side of Texas
Mission-Aransas NERR offers some bird watching unparalleled in the U.S. In addition to SWMP monitoring, Mission-Aransas also stays on top of HAB threats.
- Posted May 2, 2018
Underwater Video Shows Coral Researchers In Action Near Philippines
We cover a lot of coral reef science on this website, but very rarely do we get a firsthand look at some of the underwater research in action. Thanks to a few scientists from the University of...
- Posted June 8, 2016
Slow Underwater Earthquakes Similar To Those Causing Tsunamis
An international team of researchers dissects deep and slow-moving earthquakes off the coast of New Zealand to learn more about tsunami generation.
- Posted May 26, 2016
Chemical Weathering Of Bedrock, River Erosion, Linked To Precipitation
Hawaiian volcanic rocks indicate local climate has an important relationship with chemical weathering of river bedrock, river erosion and the carbon cycle.
- Posted April 26, 2016
How Drought-Stricken Arizona And California Can Increase Groundwater Supplies
Although Arizona and California have experienced significant groundwater depletion as droughts have continued for years, an opportunity exists to better store surface water during floods, resulting in less stress on existing groundwater supplies, according to a study...
- Posted April 20, 2016
Scientists Create Map Of Greenland Ice Sheet Moves Across 9,000 Years
The Greenland Ice Sheet is on the move and has been for thousands of years. For the first time, however, scientists have managed to capture the sheet’s movements over the past 9,000 years as ice has flowed...
- Posted February 11, 2016
Colorado River Basin Water More Influenced By Nature Than People
Human usage of the Colorado River’s water has been fairly stable over the past few decades, say researchers from the University of Texas. Because of this, as well as large-scale fluctuations in periods of wetness to dryness,...
- Posted December 22, 2015
Uneven Global Cooling Predicted By Event 12,000 Years Ago
The Younger Dryas was a cooling event that occurred 12,000 years ago. Scientists at the University of Texas suggest in a recent press release that another similar cooling event may be on its way if the North...
- Posted September 4, 2015
Seismic Sensors Inform New Measurement Method For Glacial Flows
Unlike with landlocked glaciers that have meltwater rivers scientists can study, measuring flows from tidewater glaciers near the sea is much harder, according to a release from the University of Texas. But it is possible, thanks to...
- Posted August 12, 2015
Contaminated aquifer recovery dependent on area geography
The time it takes for an aquifer to recover from contamination depends on the geology and infrastructure surrounding it, according to a recent press release from the University of Texas at Austin. UT at Austin researchers compared...
- Posted April 28, 2015
