Facilities

The Department operates a range of state-of-the-art research equipment and facilities. Research equipment includes: 

  • CAMECA electron microprobe 
  • JEOL SEM
  • SCINTAG XRD
  • Gamma spectrometer
  • FTIR
  • EM-31 Conductivity System
  • GPR with 200, 100, 50 MHz antennas
  • SuperSting R1 Resistivity Meter
  • A Spin Resonance Magnetometer
  • Linux Seismic Workstations with a five terabyte network

The Department’s modern computer facility has Department licenses and training in:

  • Arc Workstation
  • Petra
  • Petrel
  • Geographics
  • NIH Image
  • Landmark Workstations
  • Seismic Unix
  • Kingdom Suite
  • Comsol Multiphysics
  • Globe Claritas Seismic Processing
  • Hampson-Russel AVO, ELOG, GLI3D, ISMAP, STRATA
  • 3-D Traveltime Tomography
  • 2-D Full Waveform Modeling and Inversion
  • Electrical Resistivity Modeling and Inversion
  • GPR-EKKO VIEW Processing and Visualization