Thorsten W. Becker Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin Media coverage

Selected media coverage of our work

• Gerya, T.V., Bercovici, D., and Becker, T.W.: Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle-ductile damage in the outer rise. Nature, 599, 245-250, 2021. (PDF)

  Convered in: UT, UTIG, Yale, and ETH (in German) press Releases,NSF News Release, Daily Texan, Live Science, Phys Org, Science Times, Science Daily, Space Ref, Noti merica (Spanish), Europa Press (Spanish), Scine XX (German), Innovations Report (German), UK Today News, and others.

• NSF FRES Megathrust modeling effort (08/2021): UT News release, HPC Wire, KXAN story and TV interview, Alcade (no, we not not want to predict earthquakes, for now - the article is better than the title).
  
  
• Faccenna, C., Glisovic, P., Forte, A., Becker, T. W., Garzanti, E., Sembroni, A. and Gvirtzman, C.: Role of dynamic topography in sustaining the Nile River over 30 million years. Nat. Geosc., doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0472-x, 2019. (PDF)

  Convered in: UT News Release, The Times, Physics Today, nature asia, Le Monde, Il Messagero, Eos, Gizmodo, Daily Mail, Daily Texan, New York Post, Wissenschaft Aktuell, Welt der Physik, Der Standard, International Business Times, Fox News, Phys Org, Discover Magazine, Live Science, Cosmos Magazine, Geographical, BrainBored, and others.

• Behr, W. M. and Becker, T. W.: Sediment control on subduction plate speeds. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 502, 166-173, 2018. (PDF)

  Convered in: JSG press release, Phys Org, Earth.com, Science Daily, Tunisie Soir, Tendencia Cientificas, and others.

• Jackson, M. G., Konter, J. G., and Becker, T. W.: Primordial helium entrained by the hottest mantle plumes. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature21023, 2017. (PDF)

  Convered in: New Scientist, JSG news release, EurekAlert, Science Daily, Heritage Daily, Live Science, Astrobiology Magazine, Futurity.

• Uhl, J. T. et al.: Universal quake statistics: From compressed nanocrystals to earthquakes. Sci. Rep., 5, 16493, doi: 10.1038/srep16493, 2015. (PDF)

  Covered in U Illinois press release, PhysOrg, EurkAlert!, Space Daily.

• Becker, T. W., Lowry, A. R., Faccenna, C., Schmandt, B., Borsa, A., and Yu, C.: Western U.S. intermountain seismicity caused by changes in upper mantle flow. Nature, 524, 458-461, 2015. (PDF)

  Feastured in USC News release, Science, KPCC, ABC Science Australia, Daily Mail, Spiegel Online, Der Tagesspiegel, Welt der Physik, Science Daily, EurekAlert!, Phys Org, redOrbit, and elsewhere.

• Jagoutz, O., Royden, L., Holt, A. F., and Becker, T. W.: Anomalously fast convergence between India and Eurasia caused by double subduction. Nature Geosc., doi:10.1038/ngeo2418, 2015. (PDF)

  Covered in News and View piece by Billen (2015), The New York Times, Yahoo News, Le Scienze, Phys Org, Daily Mail, Live Science, International Business Times, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Suedeutsche Zeitung, and elsewhere.

• Schmandt, B., Jacobsen, S. D., Becker, T. W., Liu, Z., and Dueker, K. G.: Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle. Science, 334, 1265-1268, 2014. (PDF).

  Covered in The Guardian, FAZ, Al Jazeera America, The Washington Post, Reuters, Forbes, New York Times, PBS News Hour, Spektrum, NBC, TIME, USA Today, KQED Science (NPR), Daily Mail, The Independent, The Huffington Post, Spiegel Online, Bild der Wissenschaft, The Weather Channel (with video), New Scientist, and elsewhere.

• Miller, M. S. and Becker, T. W.: Reactivated lithospheric-scale discontinuities localize dynamic uplift of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Geology, 42, 35-38, 2014. (PDF)

  Covered in a Nature Geoscience highlight by Whitchuch, Nature World News, Nature Blogs, RedOrbit, UPI, USC News, and elsewhere.

• Miller, M. S. and Becker, T. W.: Mantle flow deflected by interactions between subducted slabs and cratonic keels. Nature Geosc., 5, 726-730, 2012. (PDF)

  Covered in the Huffington Post, MSNBC, Discovery News, International Business Times, Yahoo news, and elsewhere.

• Faccenna, C. and Becker, T. W. : Shaping mobile belts by small-scale convection. Nature, 465, 2010. (PDF)

  Covered in the Christian Science Monitor, Pour La Science, Spiegel Online, Focus Online, and Bild der Wissenschaft, USC News Terra Daily, got a Cool on FARK, Futurity, Science Daily, LiveScience, PhysOrg, ScienceCodex, Eureka Science News, Lab Spaces, E Science News, News Blaze, Sify News, ABC Espana, and elsewhere.

• Loyd, S. J., Becker, T. W., Conrad, C. P., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., and Corsetti, F.A.: Time-variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth's thermal evolution Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104, 14266-14271, 2007. (PDF)

  Covered in UPI (picked up by EarthTimes, Science Daily, First Science, Eureka Alert, PhysOrg, Terra Daily, NewsWise, Geology Times etc.), USC, USC College