printer friendly pageGEOPHYS 100: Directed Reading
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-2
GEOPHYS 120: Ice, Water, Fire (GEOPHYS 220)
Introductory application of continuum mechanics to ice sheets and glaciers, water waves and tsunamis, and volcanoes. Emphasis on physical processes and mathematical description using balance of mass and momentum, combined with constitutive equations for fluids and solids. Designed for undergraduates with no prior geophysics background; also appropriate for beginning graduate students. Prerequisites:
CME 100 or
MATH 52 and
PHYSICS 41 (or equivalent). Offered every year.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-FR, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Lotto, G. (TA)
GEOPHYS 141: Remote Sensing of the Oceans (EARTHSYS 141, EARTHSYS 241, ESS 141, ESS 241)
How to observe and interpret physical and biological changes in the oceans using satellite technologies. Topics: principles of satellite remote sensing, classes of satellite remote sensors, converting radiometric data into biological and physical quantities, sensor calibration and validation, interpreting large-scale oceanographic features.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-AQR
Instructors:
Arrigo, K. (PI)
GEOPHYS 146A: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: The Atmospheric Circulation (CEE 161I, CEE 261I, EARTHSYS 146A, EARTHSYS 246A, ESS 146A, ESS 246A, GEOPHYS 246A)
Introduction to the physics governing the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean and their control on climate with emphasis on the atmospheric circulation. Topics include the global energy balance, the greenhouse effect, the vertical and meridional structure of the atmosphere, dry and moist convection, the equations of motion for the atmosphere and ocean, including the effects of rotation, and the poleward transport of heat by the large-scale atmospheric circulation and storm systems. Prerequisites:
MATH 51 or CME100 and
PHYSICS 41.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
GEOPHYS 181: Fluids and Flow in the Earth: Computational Methods (GEOPHYS 203)
Interdisciplinary problems involving the state and movement of fluids in crustal systems, and computational methods to model these processes. Examples of processes include: nonlinear, time-dependent flow in porous rocks; coupling in porous rocks between fluid flow, stress, deformation, and heat and chemical transport; percolation of partial melt; diagenetic processes; pressure solution and the formation of stylolites; and transient pore pressure in fault zones. MATLAB, Lattice-Boltzmann, and COMSOL Multiphysics. Term project. No experience with COMSOL Multiphysics required. Offered every other year, winter quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
GEOPHYS 186: Tectonophysics (GEOPHYS 290)
The physics of faulting and plate tectonics. Topics: plate driving forces, lithospheric rheology, crustal faulting, and the state of stress in the lithosphere. Exercises: lithospheric temperature and strength profiles, calculation of seismic strain from summation of earthquake moment tensors, slip on faults in 3D, and stress triggering and inversion of stress from earthquake focal mechanisms. Offered every other year, winter quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
GEOPHYS 196: Undergraduate Research in Geophysics
Field-, lab-, or computer-based. Faculty supervision. Written reports.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
GEOPHYS 197: Senior Thesis in Geophysics
For seniors writing a thesis based on Geophysics research in 196 or as a summer research fellow. Seniors defend the results of their research at a public oral presentation.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 3-5
GEOPHYS 198: Honors Program
Experimental, observational, or theoretical honors project and thesis in geophysics under supervision of a faculty member. Students who elect to do an honors thesis should begin planning it no later than Winter Quarter of the junior year. Prerequisites: department approval. Seniors defend the results of their research at a public oral presentation.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
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Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
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Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
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Dvorkin, J. (PI)
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Harris, J. (PI)
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Klemperer, S. (PI)
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Knight, R. (PI)
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Lawrence, J. (PI)
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Mavko, G. (PI)
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Schroeder, D. (PI)
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Segall, P. (PI)
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Sleep, N. (PI)
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Suckale, J. (PI)
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Vanorio, T. (PI)
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Zebker, H. (PI)
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Zoback, M. (PI)
GEOPHYS 203: Fluids and Flow in the Earth: Computational Methods (GEOPHYS 181)
Interdisciplinary problems involving the state and movement of fluids in crustal systems, and computational methods to model these processes. Examples of processes include: nonlinear, time-dependent flow in porous rocks; coupling in porous rocks between fluid flow, stress, deformation, and heat and chemical transport; percolation of partial melt; diagenetic processes; pressure solution and the formation of stylolites; and transient pore pressure in fault zones. MATLAB, Lattice-Boltzmann, and COMSOL Multiphysics. Term project. No experience with COMSOL Multiphysics required. Offered every other year, winter quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
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