Implementation of Field-Oriented Projects into the Senior Level Undergraduate Geophysics Curriculum

位于长滩的加州州立大学将购买一台带磁带驱动器和降重源的地震仪，以及配套的计算设施，以便在高级地球物理序列中完成两个现场项目（每个学期一个）。在地球物理学入门课程（第一学期）中，该设备将与各系在重力学、电磁学和电阻率学方面的知识相结合，进行一个工程地球物理学项目，以帮助确定加州麦加山附近的圣安德烈亚斯断层最近的活动痕迹。在石油地球物理学（第二学期）中，该实验室将使用地震反射研究，结合重力和磁场工作，来描述加州Coalinga附近一个生产油田的地下地质特征。在这两种情况下，学生都将从现有文献中帮助规划项目，收集，减少和解释数据，并做一些地质实地工作以促进解释。选择了具体的还原技术来补充讲座和实验课程，每个学生将为每个项目撰写最终的综合报告。

California State University, Long Beach, will purchase a seismograph with tape drive and falling-weight source, and supporting computing facilities to allow completion of two field projects (one each semester) in the senior level geophysics sequence. In the introductory geophysics (first semester), the equipment will be combined with departmental holdings in gravimetry, magnetics and electrical resistivity to conduct an engineering geophysics project, to help identify recently active traces of the San Andreas fault near Mecca Hills, California. In petroleum geophysics (second semester), the laboratory will use seismic reflection studies, combined with gravity and magnetic work, to characterize the subsurface geology in a producing oil field near Coalinga, California. In both cases, students will help plan the project from available literature, collect, reduce, and interpret data, and do some geological field work to facilitate interpretation. Specific reduction techniques have been chosen to supplement lecture and laboratory sessions A final comprehensive report will be written by each student for each project.