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Geophysical Exploration   Laboratory

People

Coordinator:

Faculty Members:

Current Graduate Students: 

  • Darrell Terry, Ph.D. Candidate
  • Olusoga Martins Akintunde, Ph.D. Candidate
  • Olga Nedorub, M.S. Candidate
  • Duke Brantley, Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised w/ Dr. John Shafer, ESRI, main advisor)
  • Craig Cunningham, M.S. Candidate
  • Walt Anderson

Undergraduate Students: 

    Patrick Duff, Geophysics, B.S. (2012)

Past Students:

Affiliated Members:

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Left to right: Loren Zeigler, Darrell Terry, Duke Brantley, Camelia Knapp, Olusoga Martins Akintunde, Chris Bruce, and Jim Knapp; not shown is Bob Trenkamp (photo courtesy of Adrian Addison)

 

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Left to right: Olusoga Martins Akintunde, Camelia Knapp, Chris Bruce, Olga Nedorub, and Darrell Terry.

Past Photos

   

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

Equipment:
  • Pulse EKKO 100 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system, with 50, 100, 200 MHz anntenas (Sensors and Software)
  • 1230 Leica Differential Global Positioning System (GPS) for land surveying (Leica Geosystems)
  • 10 Texan Seismic Instruments (Reftek 125)
  • Linux Monarch Accela Custom Server (2.5 Tb, 2 Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz each)
  • SUN Ultra 60 SPARC Workstation, 2-headed (1) 3.5 Tb external hard disk storage
  • 6 Dell Linux/ Windows workstation network with 1 Gbit connection

Software:

  • Landmark Software Package (plus support and upgrades)
  • ProMAX 2D/3D/VSP license (14-user floating license)
  • Lookout Geophysical high-resolution 2-D seismic processing software
  • Vista seismic processing software
  • Seismic MicroTechnologies Kingdom Suite seismic interpretation package
  • Colorado School of Mines Seismic Unix
  • Hampson-Russell seismic and well-logging interpretation software
  • VoxelGeo Volume-based seismic interpretation software
  • GX II and MESA seismic modeling and design software
  • pulseEKKO 2- & 3-D GPR data processing
  • ArcGIS 10.0 (site license at USC)
  • MapInfo 8.1
  • Matlab (site license at USC)
  • FAST, 3-D First Arrival Seismic Tomography, courtesy of Dr. C. Zelt @ Rice
  • SurfSeis Software for Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves
  • Adobe Creative Suite CS3, Canvas

  • Links


    Contact Info

    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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    Last update: 20 September 2008
    Author: Geophysical Exploration Laboratory
    Department of Geological Sciences
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