Eosc452 Schedule - 2006

 

                                     Last updated Mar 31, 2006


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 mth.  day   wk.
Topic / activity
Required readings
Labs
Extra resources What's due?
Jan 5 1 Introduction
Properties
- Syllabus
- learning journals (journal example)
- Literature research project
none this week - Class powerpoint.
- Framework outline, etc.
- Electrical properties at the UC Berkeley applied geophysics site.
 
10 2 potentials - Electrical conductivity Reading - discussion
(colour figures)
- lecture: resist'y, E/EM geophysics & starting DC.  
12 soundings - DC resistivity and Soundings - lecture: sounding 1st journal
17 3 profiling - Pseudosections and Sensitivities DC soundings - lecture: profiling 1st lab
19 IP - IP notes - lecture: IP
- inversion introduction.
 
24 4 day off - roundup
READ IP NOTES.
Bring evidence of roundup visit.
- DC modelling
- Archive with code / data
- Roundup (M, Tu, W, Th) soundings lab
26 2D inversion Inversion fundamentals
- Misfit and objectives
- Optimization
- lecture: fwd modelling, inversion
31 5 2D inversion Practicalities - DC / IP inversion
- The article (Morgan etal, 2002)
- St Lucia Data & Mesh
LAB QUESTIONS ONLY (doc format) fwd mod. lab
Feb 2 res/ip appl'ns   - rough course outline for January.
- lecture on applications.
 
7 6 FEM EM notes:
"Coils and Induction"
Quiz #1 (roughly 40 minutes only). Content to Jan31 only. - lecture (em1)
- lecture (em2)
- inver'n lab
- Lit search topic
9       journals
13-17
Midterm break
21 7 loop-loop profiling EM notes:
sections 1, 2
- EM concepts part I
- current version of MeshTools3D
- lecture (em3)  
23 FEM over 1/2 space & overburden sections 3, 4 - lecture (em4)  
28 8 EM wave propagation EM notes:
EM wave propagation
- EM concepts part II
  - Forward modelling materials
  - file surface-data.xls.
- lecture (em5) EM #1
Mar 2 Hi freq propag'n, and
apparent resistivity
- EM notes, ... to sec'n 7
- short handouts
- lecture (em6)  
7 9 L I N and GPR - EM notes sec'ns 8,9
- handouts
- LIN / GPR instructions.
- data spreadsheet.
- Lecture: LIN & GPR. EM #2
9 aspects of using GPR - lecture: gpr  
14 10 End GPR - EM notes sec'n 8 Quiz #2: Feb7 - Mar8 - lecture: gpr LIN & GPR
16 start TEM - EM notes sec'n 10 - lecture: TEM #1.  
21 11 - EM notes sec'n 10a Field exercise - READ BEFORE GOING OUT! - Lecture: mar21, mar23
- TEM fwd modelling slides.
(journals)
23 MT and CSAMT - EM notes sec'n 11  
28 12     Field exercise results (GPR and MaxMin) - EM study guide matrix. Field notes
30     - Lecture: mar28, mar30 (journals)
Apr 4 13 review   Literature research presentations    
6 remaining presentations     Field results
10
Exams begin