Winter 2016: Energy Evolution
From carbon dioxide conversion to landfill mining, researchers at UTA are seeking viable alternative energy options.
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From carbon dioxide conversion to landfill mining, researchers at UTA are seeking viable alternative energy options.
Found in everything from space shuttles to dental fillings, composite materials have thoroughly infiltrated modern society. But their potential is still greatly untapped, offering researchers ample opportunity for discovery.
Within the particle showers created at the Large Hadron Collider, answers to some of the universe’s mysteries are waiting.
Model systems like pigeons can help illuminate our own evolutionary and genomic history.
UT Arlington's tiny windmills are bringing renewable energy to a whole new scale.
The stability of our highways, pipelines, and even manholes is reaching a breaking point.
Scientists believe they have discovered a subatomic particle that is crucial to understanding the universe.
UT Arlington researchers unlock clues to the human body’s most mysterious and complex organ.
UT Arlington researchers probe the hidden world of microbes in search of renewable energy sources.
Wounded soldiers are benefiting from Robert Gatchel’s program that combines physical rehabilitation with treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tiny sensors implanted in the body show promise in combating acid reflux disease, pain and other health problems.
Nanotechnology researchers pursue hybrid silicon chips with life-saving potential.
Biomedical engineers combat diseases with procedures that are painless to patients.
To gain a new perspective on modern-day climate change, a trio of scientists is looking back—way back. More than 45 million years back.
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Ocean Sciences awarded UTA a grant of about $400,000 to study the Early Paleogene period in hopes that researchers will learn more about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. The team consists of earth and environmental sciences Associate Professor Arne Winguth, Lecturer Cornelia Winguth, and former Assistant Professor Elizabeth Griffith.
The Early Paleogene period occurred roughly 66 million to 45 million years ago and featured rapid, short-term global warming events—known as hyperthermals—caused by great amounts of greenhouse gases being released into the ocean-atmosphere system.
“Hyperthermals resemble what could happen during anthropogenic or human-caused climate change, and provide analogs for the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and their long-term effects on life on Earth,” says Dr. Arne Winguth.
Their study will produce a state-of-the-art Earth system model by integrating new biotic, isotopic, and trace element proxies with pre-existing data.
The team is collaborating with Ellen Thomas from Wesleyan University and Pincelli Hull from Yale University on the project.
Photograph by Adam Voorhes