"Establishment of a Facility for Seismic Data Analysis"

该合同提供一半的资金用于购买高性能工作站和升级利哈伊大学地球和环境科学系现有的计算机硬件。该大学承诺提供所需的剩余资金。该设备将主要用于处理和解释地震数据的反射地震学实验室小组的工作。利哈伊地震组的主要研究重点是从几十米到几十公里的大范围地壳成像尺度和分辨率的区域地震调查。这些技术包括广角入射剖面法和垂直入射剖面法，以成像地下结构和地层并测量地下材料特性。计算机建模研究被用来约束对数据的解释。所有这些活动都是计算机密集型的，需要这种设备提供的内部能力。

This award provides one-half the funds for the acquisition of a high-performance workstation and for the upgrade of existing computer hardware housed in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lehigh University. The University is committed to providing the remaining funds necessary. The equipment will be used primarily in the work of the reflection seismology laboratory group which processes and interprets seismic data. The main research focus of the seismology group at Lehigh is regional seismic surveying over a wide range of crustal imaging scales and resolutions from tens of meters to tens of kilometers. The techniques include both wide-angle and vertical incidence profiling to image subsurface structure and stratigraphy and to measure subsurface material properties. Computer modeling studies are used to constrain the interpretation of the data. All of these activities are computer-intensive and require the in-house capability that this equipment provides.