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Bureau of Economic Geology State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery (STARR) program research assistant professor Dr. James Thompson was instrumental in recruiting the so-far successful Texas-Soton team that was recently announced as one of only 29 teams worldwide to move to the next level of the XPRIZE Wildfire Autonomous Response competition.

This summer, nine Bureau researchers mentored students through the Jackson School of Geosciences Research Traineeship Experience (RTX).

In support of the next generation of geoscientists, Bureau researchers instructed high school students enrolled in the GeoFORCE Texas 12th Grade Research Academy and Symposium.

Initial research using the Bureau’s new Leica Chiroptera Mark 5 airborne lidar system shows higher spatial resolution of topography, and deeper water bottom mapping in the nearshore environment, than the previous system could achieve.

Bureau researchers from the GeoH2 and STARR programs presented at the 85th EAGE annual conference Oslo, Norway. Nur Schuba and Ander Martinez-Doñate presented widely applicable work on subsurface hydrogen storage exploration and the characterization of shallow- and deepwater evaporitic sequences, respectively.