The Geophysical Engineering department arguably houses the best computer facility on campus, including Linux configured PC workstations and a 28-node supercomputer. Students also have access to a full array of field equipment including modern field vehicles and instruments for making seismic, magnetic, gravity, electrical, electromagnetic, borehole, and ground-penetrating radar measurements. The four full-time faculty are actively involved in funded research projects in a variety of areas including earthquake/rockburst analysis, remote sensing and imaging analysis, oil reservoir characterization, neural network analysis, and Antarctic geology.

Some of the instruments we have include:

Computer facilities:
1. A number of high-end workstations
2. 8 PCs
3. 28-processor LINUX cluster for parallel computating.

Seismic Instruments:
1. Geometric Geode 96-channel seismic recording system
2. 96-channel 3-D gimbaled seismic land streamer array
3. 2 24-channel Bison seismographs, 12-channel Bison seismograph

Remote sensing equipment:
1. ASD spectroradiometer
2. 213-band hyperspectral imaging spectrometer
3. Thermal infrared radiometers
4. Gamma ray spectrometer

Electrical/Electromagnetic equipment:
1. Zonge Engineering Inc. GDP-32
2. Zonge Engineering Inc. NT-20 transmitter
3. IRIS SYSCAL R2 resistivity/IP meter with 800 watt DC/DC converter
4. RAMAC GPR System
5. Geonics EM34-3
6. BRGM R-plus resistivity IP
7. ABEM-wadi VLF system

Gravity instruments:
1. LaCoste and Romberg G - gravimeter
2. LaCoste and Romberg D - gravimeter

Magnetic instruments:
1. 1 Geometrics G816 magnetometer
2. 4 Geometrics Unimag magnetometers

Marvin Speece, Department Chair • 406-496-4188
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