Seminars:

STP Weekly Seminar
Mondays, 12:15 pm., Mitchell 350

SWP Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

Classes:

GP120 - Frontiers in Geophysical Research at Stanford

Faculty Lectures- Required for new students entering the department. Second-year and other graduate students may attend either for credit or as auditors.
Department and senior research staff lectures introduce the frontiers of research problems and the methods being employed or developed in the department and unique to department faculty and students: what the current research is, why the research is important, what methodologies and technologies are being used, and what the potential impact of the results might be.

1-2 units (Harris)

 
GP160 - Waves

Topics: Derivations of wave equations and their solutions in 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D; amplitude, polarization, phase and group velocities, attenuation, and dispersion; reflection and transmission at single and multiple interfaces; ray theory. Applications from acoustics, elastodynamics, and electromagnetics. Prerequisites: differential/integral calculus and complex functions.

3 units, Winter (Harris, Claerbout, Beroza)

 
GP190 - Applied and Environmental Geophysics

Applications of geophysical methods for imaging and characterizing the top 100 meters of the Earth. Focus is the use of electrical and seismic methods for environmental and engineering applications. Introduction to the link between electrical and elastic properties of rock, soils, and sediments, and their physical, chemical, and biological properties. Surface and borehole methods used for data acquisition. Two-day, optional field class demonstration of the use of geophysical equipment.

3 units, last offered spring 2002/03 (Harris)

 
GP240 - Borehole Seismology

The study and application of seismic-acoustic waves in an around boreholes for application to sonic well logging, crosswell seismic profiling, and vertical seismic profiling. Topics: forward modeling, seismogram interpretation, data processing, imaging, and inversion. Applications from reservoir and site characterization studies and reservoir monitoring. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

3 units, Winter (Harris) alternate years, not given 2006-07