Results for "University of Texas Institute for Geophysics"

The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) is an academic research center best known for projects with an international scope. Prominent research areas include marine geology and geophysics, tectonics, terrestrial and lunar seismology, quantitative and exploration geophysics, and geophysical studies of ice sheets and of climate.

Website: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/

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Faculty

Kerry Cook

Affiliated Departments:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests:

Climate dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, global climate change, paleoclimate, climate and weather of Africa and South America, climate system modeling

Ian Dalziel

Affiliated Departments:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Research Interests:

Tectonic history of the earth before the amalgamation of Pangea; global tectonic processes; recently working to unravel the complicated tectonic history of Scotland, his homeland

Omar Ghattas

Affiliated Departments:
Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests:

Dr. Ghattas' interests are in forward and inverse modeling, and optimal design and control, of complex systems in the geophysical, mechanical, and biomedical engineering sciences, with particular emphasis on…

Stephen Grand

Affiliated Departments:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Research Interests:

General geophysics; seismically imaging the mantle of the earth; developing a three-dimensional image of shear velocity throughout the mantle of the earth; determining the dynamics of flow in the mantle; regional…

Sean Gulick

Affiliated Departments:
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Research Interests:

Tectonic processes, tectonic-climate interactions and geohazards of convergent margins and transitional tectonic environments

Role of catastrophism in the geologic record including impact cratering, hurricanes…

Brian K Horton

Affiliated Departments:
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Research Interests:

Sedimentary basin development and mountain building processes. Current studies utilize sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, structural geology, and geochemistry to understand modern and ancient sedimentation,…

Charles Jackson

Affiliated Departments:
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Research Interests:

Dr. Charles Jackson is a research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin. Charles’ research program concerns the development of computational, statistical, and scientific…

Terrence Quinn

Affiliated Departments:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics
Research Interests:

Dr. Quinn is the Director of the Institute for Geophysics and a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. His field of study includes climate change, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, sedimentary geology…