ESI UT Austin - Life and Death by Impact - In Person

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You DO need to visit this page to register -- Life and Death by Impact -- https://www.esi.utexas.edu/talk/life-and-death-by-impact/

The ESI Hot Science Cool Talks series is an extremely popular event and you should register ASAP (Registration is usually open three week before the event date). These events fill up almost immediately when registration opens. It does help to be on the ESI mailing list (very low traffic).

Environmental Science Institute - Jackson School of Geosciences:

Hot Science Cool Talk -- https://www.esi.utexas.edu/community-engagement/hot-science-cool-talks/ (Bookmarking this page is a good idea. Mailing list subscription information is to the right.)

Hot Science Cool Talks Archive -- https://www.esi.utexas.edu/community-engagement/hot-science-cool-talks/archives/

ESI has this to say...

What can a 66-million-year-old impact crater reveal about the past and future of life on Earth? Dr. Sean Gulick explores the science behind one of the most dramatic events in Earth’s history, the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs. From discovering a giant crater in Mexico to drilling deep into the Earth to link this impact to the mass extinction, Dr. Gulick unpacks the explosive chain of events that wiped out 75 percent of life on the planet. Current research is studying how meteorite impacts shape planets, create new ecosystems, and may even help life begin on Earth and on other worlds

Dr. Sean Gulick is Co-Director of the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability and a Research Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a PhD from Lehigh University and is an expert in tectonic processes, climate interactions, and planetary science. His research spans nearly every continent on Earth as well as the Moon and Mars, where he studies natural hazards such as earthquakes and glaciers, as well as events like asteroid impacts. Sean’s work helps uncover how extreme events shape Earth’s past and inform the search for life beyond our planet.

Austin Astronomy has this to say...

Here is where we will be meeting prior to the presentation -- https://www.google.com/maps/place/30%C2%B017'21.0%22N+97%C2%B044'08.8%22W/@30.2891568,-97.7357906,55m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d30.289172!4d-97.735764

Please be there no later than 6:15pm.

ESI wants to seat everyone by 6:50pm. There may be pre-event activities so the crowd can be expected to be large and have many young ones full of enthusiasm :) We'll walk across the street to Welch Hall and go through registration and seating. Don't forget to turn all audible alerts on your phone OFF please.

I'll be wearing a black cap with the "Hi How Are You?" frog on it -- https://thedailytexan.com/2017/08/04/jeremiah-the-innocent-deserves-more-recognition/

UT Austin Parking & Transportation -- https://parking.utexas.edu/

If anyone is interested in socializing after the presentation we can go to the Drag and pick a place :)