printer friendly pageGEOPHYS 54N: The Space Mission to Europa
Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a leading candidate in the search for life in our solar system outside of Earth. NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission would investigate the habitability of the moon using a suite of nine geophysical instruments. In this course, we will use the mission as a central text around which to explore the intersection of science, engineering, management, economics, culture, and politics involved in any modern big science enterprise.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Schroeder, D. (PI)
GEOPHYS 60N: Man versus Nature: Coping with Disasters Using Space Technology (EE 60N)
Preference to freshman. Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and fires, and how they affect people and society; great disasters such as asteroid impacts that periodically obliterate many species of life. Scientific issues, political and social consequences, costs of disaster mitigation, and how scientific knowledge affects policy. How spaceborne imaging technology makes it possible to respond quickly and mitigate consequences; how it is applied to natural disasters; and remote sensing data manipulation and analysis. GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Zebker, H. (PI)
GEOPHYS 100: Directed Reading
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-2
GEOPHYS 110: Introduction to the foundations of contemporary geophysics (EARTHSYS 110)
Introduction to the foundations of contemporary geophysics. Topics drawn from broad themes in: whole Earth geodynamics, geohazards, natural resources, and enviroment. In each case the focus is on how the interpretation of a variety of geophysical measurements (e.g., gravity, seismology, heat flow, electromagnetics, and remote sensing) can be used to provide fundamental insight into the behavior of the Earth. Prerequisite:
CME 100 or MA TH 51, or co-registration in either.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
GEOPHYS 112: Exploring Geosciences with MATLAB
How to use MATLAB as a tool for research and technical computing, including 2-D and 3-D visualization features, numerical capabilities, and toolboxes. Practical skills in areas such as data analysis, regressions, optimization, spectral analysis, differential equations, image analysis, computational statistics, and Monte Carlo simulations. Emphasis is on scientific and engineering applications. Offered every year, autumn quarter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Mukerji, T. (PI)
;
Alalli, G. (TA)
GEOPHYS 118X: Disasters, Decisions, Development in Sustainable Urban Systems (ESS 118, ESS 218, GEOPHYS 218X, GS 118, GS 218, POLISCI 224A, PUBLPOL 118)
CEE 224X of the CEE 224XYZ SUS Project series is joining forces with D3: Disasters, Decisions, Development to offer D3+SUS, which will connect principles of sustainable urban systems with the challenge of increasing resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project-based learning course is designed to align with the Resilient By Design | Bay Area Challenge (
http://www.resilientbayarea.org/); students will learn the basic concepts of resilience and tools of risk analysis while applying those mindsets and toolsets to a collective research product delivered to the RBD community. Students who take D3+SUS are encouraged to continue on to
CEE 224Y and
CEE 224Z, in which teams will be paired with local partners and will develop interventions to improve the resilience of local communities. For more information, visit
http://sus.stanford.edu/courses.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
;
Hilley, G. (PI)
;
Leckie, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
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Hilley, G. (PI)
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Leckie, J. (PI)
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Ouyang, D. (PI)
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Suckale, J. (PI)
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Watson, L. (TA)
GEOPHYS 122: Planetary Systems: Dynamics and Origins (GS 122, GS 222)
(Students with a strong background in mathematics and the physical sciences should register for 222.) Motions of planets and smaller bodies, energy transport in planetary systems, composition, structure and dynamics of planetary atmospheres, cratering on planetary surfaces, properties of meteorites, asteroids and comets, extrasolar planets, and planetary formation. Prerequisite: some background in the physical sciences, especially astronomy, geophysics, or physics. Students need instructor approval to take the course for 2 or 4 units.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Lissauer, J. (PI)
;
Marley, M. (PI)
GEOPHYS 162: Laboratory Methods in Geophysics (GEOPHYS 259)
Lab. Types of equipment used in experimental rock physics. Principles and measurements of geophysical properties such as porosity, permeability, acoustic wave velocity, and resistivity through lectures and laboratory experiments. Training in analytical project writing skills and understanding errors for assessing accuracy and variability of measured data. Students may investigate a scientific problem to support their own research. Prerequisites:
Physics 45 (Light and Heat); and
CME 100 (Vector Calculus).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
GEOPHYS 182: Reflection Seismology (GEOPHYS 222)
The principles of seismic reflection profiling, focusing on methods of seismic data acquisition and seismic data processing for hydrocarbon exploration.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
Instructors:
Klemperer, S. (PI)
;
Liu, T. (TA)
GEOPHYS 188: Basic Earth Imaging (GEOPHYS 210)
Echo seismogram recording geometry, head waves, moveout, velocity estimation, making images of complex shaped reflectors, migration by Fourier and integral methods. Anti-aliasing. Dip moveout. Computer labs. See
http://sep.stanford.edu/sep/prof/. Offered every year, autumn quarter. n*The Geophys180 cross-listing is considered an advanced undergraduate course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dahlke, T. (TA)
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