EOSC 350: Environmental, Geotechnical and Exploration Geophysics I

Course Description

Principles of geophysical survey design, data acquisition, processing and interpretation with emphasis on near-surface problems. Magnetic, seismic reflection/refraction, electromagnetic and ground penetrating radar surveys. Case history analysis of environmental and geotechnical problems.

Your name and team number for TBL assignments can be found here: Teams 2019

Course Times

Lectures:

  • Mon Wed Fri 13:00-14:00 in ESB 2012

Labs:

  • Section L1A: Mon 15:00-17:00 in EOS Main 203
  • Section L1B: Tue 13:00-15:00 in EOS Main 203

TBL Teams:

Contact Information

Instructors:

Office hours: contact the instructors via email to set up an appointment. Please include ‘EOSC350’ in the subject line.

Teaching Assistants:

Office hours: contact the TA’s by e-mail or in person for availability. Please include ‘EOSC350’ in the subject line.

Contents

Course Schedule

This page will be updated regularly throughout the year, check it often.

Note

Please print out the labs before attending the lab period!

Note

Please print out the TBL assignments before attending class!

Your name and team number for TBL assignments can be found here: (make link)

The formulat sheet given on the final exam can be downloaded here: Formula Sheet

month day wk topics resources activity lab TA Contact
Sept 4 1
Introduction
and
Course Goals
 No Lab  
6
Physical
Properties
  9 2
Seven step
framework for
geophysics
  • Lab 1 Physical properties
11



  • TBL 1 Assignment
13
Magnetics
  16 3
Magnetics


  
  • Lab 2 Magnetics Part 1
18
Magnetics


  
20
Magnetics


  
  23 4
Magnetics
  • TBL 2 Assignment
25
Seismic
27
Seismic


  
  30 5
Seismic


  
  • Lab 4 Seismic Part 1
Oct 2
Seismic


  
4
Seismic


  
  7 6
Seismic
  • TBL 3 Assignment
  • Lab 5 Seismic Part 2
9
GPR
11
GPR


  
  14 7
Thanksgiving
No class

   NO LECTURE
  • Thanksgiving Week: NO LAB!
  
16
GPR


  
18
GPR
  • TBL 4 Assignment
  21 8
GPR
  • Review Lecture
  • Lab 6 GPR
23
DC


  
25
Midterm
  • Midterm
  28 9
DC


  
  • Lab 7 DC
30
DC


  
Nov 1
DC
  • DC Quiz
  • Midterm review
  4 10
EM
  • Lab 8 EM 1
6
EM


  
8
EM


  
  11 11
Remembrance
Day. No class

   NO LECTURE
  • No Labs this week!
  
13
EM


  
15
EM
  18 12
IP
  • Lab 9 EM 2
20
IP
  • EM Quiz
  • TBL 6 Assignment
22
Review


  
  25 13
Review


  
  • No Lab!
  
27
Review


  
29



 

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Assignments

Note

All the material is available through the course schedule.

Note

Please print out the labs before attending the lab period.

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Apps for the assignment are available by clicking below binder badge!

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Resources

Jupyter Notebooks in Lab

To open an run Jupyter notebooks for lab exercises, please do the following

  1. Login to the lab computer with the name and password provided
  2. On the desktop, open the Anaconda Prompt. This command line will automatically open in the Z: folder
  3. Use ‘cd your-folder’ to navigate to your working folder. For example: ‘cd user14’. Each student has been given a folder that contains the core programing. The name of your folder is provided in the Teams 2019 file.
  4. Within the command line, type the command ‘jupyter notebook’ and press enter. This will start Jupyter notebooks in a tab within your web browser. This may take a while.
  5. Navigate to the correct notebook and select. This should open another tab that starts the app. Within each app there are instruction for how to run the code.

Lecture Video Lists