Planet Texas 2050
Texas’ population could double by the year 2050. Extreme weather events will bring more floods, more droughts, and more heat. Our state’s resources can’t support those demands. Making Texas resilient is our grand challenge.
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SAWS: Businesses reopening post-pandemic need to flush their pipes to remove nasty bacteria
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City of Austin, UT announce project to combat extreme heat in urban environments
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UT Austin Teams Up With City and Community to Fight Extreme Heat in Austin
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FOX 7 Discussion: Fighting extreme heat in Austin neighborhoods
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Beyond the Weather Report
(UT News, 2021-07-09) -
Climate Change-Related Heat Waves Are A Major Threat To Public Health
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Hurricane Scenario Generation for Uncertainty Modeling of Coastal and Inland Flooding
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Climate Vulnerability in Austin: A multi-risk assessment
(Austin Area Sustainability Indicators & Texas Metropolitan Observatory of Planet Texas 2050, 2020-02-05) -
New Books Network Podcast - C.J. Alvarez, A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
(2020-01-03)Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor ... -
Assessing the potential for greater solar development in West Texas, USA
(Energy Strategy Reviews, 2020-05-13)As population and economies continue to grow on a global scale, so too does the demand for energy. To improve reliability and independence of energy supplies, the U.S. and many other countries are seeking internally-sourced ... -
Exploring Groundwater Recoverability in Texas: Maximum Economically Recoverable Storage
(Texas Water Journal, 2020-12-10)The 2017 Texas state water plan projects total supply deficits of 4.8 and 8.9 million acre-feet under drought-of-record conditions by the year 2020 and 2070, respectively, driven by a growing population concurrent with ... -
Communicating in Three Dimensions: Questions of Audience and Reuse in 3D Excavation Documentation Practice
(2019-08-18)After excavating the Praedia of Iulia Felix at Pompeii in 1755, architect Karl Weber published the building with an axionometric illustration that showed the remains in three-dimensional perspective. In doing so, Weber ... -
Science On Screen: Anthropocene w/ climate panel at Austin Film Society
(2019-09-25)Discussion with The University of Texas at Austin's Dr. Jay Banner, Professor of Geoscience and Director of the Environmental Science institute, and Dr. Heather Houser, Professor of English with a focus on environmental ... -
Synthesis of Paleoclimate, Paleoecological, and Archaeological Data for Central Texas over the last 20,000 Years - at 123rd TAS Annual Meeting_2020
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Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene
(American Association of Geographers, 2020-09-04)This article argues that geographers must study the power of words as integral parts of human–environment relationships, with particular attention to local meanings, to intervene more effectively in the Anthropocene. Words ... -
People, land, & water: stories of metropolitan growth
(Texas Metro Observatory, 2019-09)TMO has brought together several data sets into our first report on metropolitan Texas, People, Land, and Water: Stories of Metropolitan Growth. In People, we analyze socio-demographic trends on diversity, education, ... -
Anti-colonial attunements to place in higher education: Thinking with radical relationality
(2019-12)This keynote address engages with the generative potentials and necessity of attunement to place in higher education. It focuses in particular on what radical relationality; conceptualized by bringing new feminist materialisms, ... -
Decolonial Water Stories: Intergenerational Pedagogies at an Indigenous Summer Camp in Austin, Texas.
(Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education, 2019-10-31)This paper is situated within a growing body of work in early childhood studies that suggests the need to firmly situate early childhood education within current ecological challenges and their unevenly inherited impacts. ... -
Assessment of Texas water resources in the context of changing climate: toward alignment of research agendas and capabilities with stakeholder needs.
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-12-11)Long-range water planning is complicated by changes in climate, population, and water use. In Texas, the current approach is to maintain water supplies sufficient to provide adequate water through a repeat of the driest ... -
Fossil bats’ (Myotis velifer) jaw morphology changes through time and with climate change in Hall’s Cave, Texas
(Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2020-01-04)The cave myotis, Myotis velifer, is a species of insectivorous bat distributed throughout the Southwestern US and Mexico. Fossils are known from several localities, including the well-known Hall’s Cave in Kerr County, TX. ...
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