Geophysical Exploration   Laboratory
Department of Geological Sciences
University of South Carolina

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Left to right: Brad Battista, Camelia Knapp, Jim Knapp, Dana Mucuta, Adrian Addison, Bob Trenkamp, and Christopher Mitchell; not shown is Curtis Gebhard (photo courtesy of Mel Fillerup)

Research Areas
  • Application of active source seismology to the structure, composition, and physical properties of the Earth crust and upper mantle
  • Physical properties of marine gas hydrates, seismic wave propagation and imaging
  • Environmental geophysics
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a tool in the accurate spatial integration of geophysical and geological data
  • Petroleum  geology and geophysics

Research Projects
Facilities
  • Pulse EKKO 100 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system, with 50, 100, 200 MHz anntenas (Sensors and Software)
  • Pulse EKKO 100 GPR borehole system with 50, 100, 200 MHz anntenas (Sensors and Software)
  • 1230 Leica Differential Global Positioning System (GPS) for land surveying (Leica Geosystems)
  • 5 Texan Seismic Instruments (Reftek 125)
  • Linux Monarch Accela Custom Server (2.5 Tb, 2 Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz each)
  • 5 Dell Linux/ Windows workstation network with 1 Gbit connection

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Geophysical Exploration Laboratory
Department of Geological Sciences
University of South Carolina
701 Sumter St.
Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Tel: (803)777-8491
Fax: (803)777-6082

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