printer friendly pageGEOPHYS 260: Rock Physics for Reservoir Characterization (GEOPHYS 185)
How to integrate well log and laboratory data to determine and theoretically generalize rock physics transforms between sediment wave properties (acoustic and elastic impendence), bulk properties (porosity, lithology, texture, permeability), and pore fluid conditions (pore fluid and pore pressure). These transforms are used in seismic interpretation for reservoir properties, and seismic forward modeling in what-if scenarios. Offered every other year, spring quarter.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
GEOPHYS 262: Rock Physics
Properties of and processes in rocks as related to geophysical exploration, crustal studies, and tectonic processes. Emphasis is on wave velocities and attenuation, hydraulic permeability, and electrical resistivity in rocks. Application to in situ problems, using lab data and theoretical results. Offered every year, autumn quarter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
GEOPHYS 265: Imaging Radar and Applications (EE 355)
Radar remote sensing, radar image characteristics, viewing geometry, range coding, synthetic aperture processing, correlation, range migration, range/Doppler algorithms, wave domain algorithms, polar algorithm, polarimetric processing, interferometric measurements. Applications: surfafe deformation, polarimetry and target discrimination, topographic mapping surface displacements, velocities of ice fields. Prerequisites:
EE261. Recommended:
EE254,
EE278,
EE279.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Zebker, H. (PI)
;
Yoon, C. (TA)
GEOPHYS 270: Electromagnetic Properties of Geological Materials
Laboratory observations and theoretical modeling of the electromagnetic properties and nuclear magnetic resonance response of geological material. Relationships between these properties and water-saturated materials properties such as composition, water content, surface area, and permeability.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Knight, R. (PI)
GEOPHYS 274: Journey to the Center of the Earth (GEOPHYS 184, GS 107, GS 207)
The interconnected set of dynamic systems that make up the Earth. Focus is on fundamental geophysical observations of the Earth and the laboratory experiments to understand and interpret them. What earthquakes, volcanoes, gravity, magnetic fields, and rocks reveal about the Earth's formation and evolution. Offered every other year, winter quarter. Next offering Winter 2013-14.
Last offered: Winter 2014
GEOPHYS 280: 3-D Seismic Imaging
The principles of imaging complex structures in the Earth subsurface using 3-D reflection seismology. Emphasis is on processing methodologies and algorithms, with examples of applications to field data. Topics: acquisition geometrics of land and marine 3-D seismic surveys, time vs. depth imaging, migration by Kirchhoff methods and by wave-equation methods, migration velocity analysis, velocity model building, imaging irregularly sampled and aliased data. Computational labs involve some programming. Lab for 3 units. Offered every year, Spring quarter.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Le, H. (TA)
GEOPHYS 281: Geophysical Inverse Problems
Concepts of inverse theory, with application to geophysics. Inverses with discrete and continuous models, generalized matrix inverses, resolving kernels, regularization, use of prior information, singular value decomposition, nonlinear inverse problems, back-projection techniques, and linear programming. Application to seismic tomography, earthquake location, migration, and fault-slip estimation. Prerequisite:
MATH 51
Last offered: Autumn 2014
GEOPHYS 284: Hydrogeophysics
The use of geophysical methods for imaging and characterizing the top 100 meters of Earth for hydrogeologic applications. Includes material properties, forward modeling, data acquisition, inversion, and integration with other forms of measurement. Each week includes three hours of lectures; plus one three-hour lab that involves acquisition of data at campus or nearby sites, or computer modeling of data. Offered occasionally.
Last offered: Spring 2011
GEOPHYS 286: Global Seismology
This course investigates how waves propagate through the whole Earth. This course examines the questions "How do body waves and surface waves behave within the Earth?" and "What does that tell us about the Earth?" The course delves into both theory and how we apply that theory to understand seismic observations. Requirements:
Math 52 or
CME 102, GP130 or permission from instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2015
GEOPHYS 287: Earthquake Seismology
Seismic wave propagation (body waves and surface waves, reflection/transmission), Green's functions, seismic moment tensors and equivalent forces, representation theorem, finite-source effects. Prerequisites:
GEOPHYS 130 or equivalent. Offered every other year, next in Winter 2017.
Last offered: Spring 2015
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