Past Events

Design your own bouquet with fresh flowers and vases provided, perfect for brightening your space or creating a thoughtful gift!

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm • In Person

Anna Ruth Halberstadt combines ice sheet modeling and geologic data to study Antarctic Ice Sheet stability and sea level rise under past and future climates.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm • Hybrid

Speaker(s): Anna Ruth Halberstadt

Join the Green Team for Spring Planting Day on Saturday, February 1st, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Beach St Garden (700 Beach St) to plant, paint garden rocks, and take home a plant!

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Mixing, Melting, and Morphology in Environmental Turbulence

11:00 am – 12:00 pm • Hybrid

Speaker(s): Blair Johnson - Associate Proffessor - UT CAEE

Attention to UTMSI staff and students: The UTMSI campus will be closed on January 21, 2025. If you can work from home, please do so remotely. All classes for Tuesday will be remote. As of now, operations will resume Wednesday.

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Start the new year and semester on the right foot—with tacos and community!

8:30 am – 9:30 am

The University of Texas Marine Science Institute will be observing its Winter Break from 12/23/2024 to 1/1/25.

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

This study uses a robotic shrimp model to explore metachronal swimming, revealing lift generation via leading-edge vortices and aiding bio-inspired robot design.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm • Hybrid

Speaker(s): Sarah Santos - Postdoctoral Fellow - UT Institute for Geophysics

Help us keep our beaches beautiful by joining the UTMSI Green Team for our annual Jetty & Beach Cleanup!

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • In Person

This study models mangrove (Avicennia germinans) water-carbon dynamics, exploring salinity and humidity effects to improve climate models amid rising sea levels.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm • Hybrid

Speaker(s): Ashley Matheny, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and University of Texas at Austin