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A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.

Chip Breier (Ph,.D. '06) is a marine biogeochemist and engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Three UT Marine Science Institute employees share experiences working with the sea.

UT postdocs, graduate students and faculty receive prestigious awards linked to sustainability and biodiversity.

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star and a black hole and the connection between two wildly different areas of mathematics.

Honey bees and sea turtles may seem like strange bedfellows, but through two of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve's (NERR) stewardship programs – Fennessey Ranch and the Amos Rehabilitation Keep (ARK) – these two species are connected through a unique collaboration.

Sometimes well known, simple household objects can be the best tools to use in a science experiment.

Plastic pollution in marine environments has no border, and now neither does the Nurdle Patrol.

Winter Storm Uri caused damage and hardship across the state of Texas, and at the Port Aransas campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the work to recover from it included rehabilitating a record number of sea turtles threatened by the cold weather.