2023
NPR Morning Edition - Study shows the potential consequences of climate change for the ocean food web
KXAN - UT Study Finds Warming Waters are Moving Plankton

2022
GSA Geobiology Division - Patty Standring interview
Fox 7 News Austin - UT researcher heads out on drill ship to study Earth’s past


2021
Houston Chronicle – As the seas rise and storms threaten, scientists hunt for sand to strengthen the Texas coast
Grist – A sunken river valley could hold the key to protecting the Texas coast
Scientific American – Prehistoric Plankton Became Predators to Survive a Mass Extinction
Deustchland Funk – D-Day: Der Anfang vom Ende der Dinosaurier
 
2020
New York Times - Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Great for Bacteria
EarthDate – Surviving the Asteroid
 
2019
Fox 7 Austin News – live interview
Newsweek – Earth Could Take 10 Million Years to Recover from Mass Extinction Caused by Humans
Business Insider – So many animals are going extinct that it could take Earth 10 million years to recover
Discover Magazine – It Took 10 Million Years for Biodiversity to Recover from Dino-Killing Impact
The Independent – Earth will take millions of years to recover from climate change mass extinction, study suggests
Fast Company – After humans trigger mass extinction on Earth, it may take 10 million years for life to recover
Science Daily – Evolution imposes 'speed limit' on recovery after mass extinctions
The London Economic – Climate change could cause as much damage as when dinosaurs were wiped out by asteroid
New Atlas – Life on planet Earth may take millions of years to recover from a mass extinction event
Cosmos Magazine – Mass extinction recovery governed by "morphospace"
The Stand News – Evolution into the limit of ecological recovery after the extinction (translated)
Daily Mail – Earth will take 10 MILLION years to recover from extinctions caused by global warming- the same time it took to repair ecosystems after dinosaurs were wiped out, experts say
Phys.org­ – Evolution imposes 'speed limit' on recovery after mass extinctions
Courthouse News Service – Recovery From Current Climate Crisis Will Take Millions of Years
Metro – Climate change damage equivalent to asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs, warn scientists
EurekAlert! – Evolution imposes 'speed limit' on recovery after mass extinction
University of Bristol News – Earth's recovery from mass extinction could take millions of years
University of Texas at Austin News – Evolution Imposes "Speed Limit" on Recovery after Mass Extinctions
 
2018
University of Texas at Austin News - UT Austin Research in the News: Top Stories from 2018
BBC Science In Action Podcast – The Dunes of Pluto
Discover Magazine – Life Recovered Mere Years After Asteroid Impact
Eos – After Obliteration, How Long Until Life Returned?
PNAS Front Matter – Life after the asteroid apocalypse
Cosmos – Life returned to asteroid crater “within years”
Ars Technica - Life returned to crater of Cretaceous asteroid in the blink of an eye
The Atlantic – A Foreboding Similarity in Today’s Oceans and a 94-Million-Year-Old Catastrophe
 
2017
PBS NOVA – The Day the Dinosaurs Died
BBC Two Documentary – The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Texas Standard (NPR) – When The Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Went Extinct – But Other Life Bounced Back Relatively Quickly
Air and Space Mag – After the Asteroid Impact
 
2016
Discover Magazine – Drilling the Chicxulub Crater of Doom
Daily Mail – Fossils reveal life on Earth bounced back 'very quickly' after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit 66 million years ago
Alcalde – The Big One

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