Equipment for Enhancing Environmental Geophysics

地球科学家在工作场所面临着越来越复杂的问题，这些问题需要越来越复杂的工具。随着大量毕业生在环境地质学，特别是水文地质学领域就业，针对这些领域的应用地球物理技术变得越来越重要。该机构已经开发并教授了6年成功的现场地球物理课程，强调环境和水文应用。这个项目增加了地球物理仪器（地震仪、重力仪、磁力计和直流电阻率）的标准本科教学套件，增加了两个在环境研究中日益重要的电磁传感器：一个地面电导率剖面系统和一个瞬态脉冲测深仪。这些仪器为本科生提供了频率和时域电磁方法的经验，使他们能够调查一系列以前不可能的相关环境问题，并提供与用于其他数据的解释技术相补充的解释技术。

Geoscientists face increasingly complex problems in the workplace that require ever more sophisticated tools. With the large number of graduates finding employment in environmental geology, particularly hydrogeology, applied geophysical techniques that focus on these fields are of growing importance. This institution has developed and taught for 6 years a successful Field Geophysics course that emphasizes environmental and hydrological applications. This project augments the standard undergraduate teaching suite of geophysical instruments (seismograph, gravimeter, magnetometer, and DC electrical resistivity) with two electromagnetic sensors that are of emerging importance in environmental studies: a ground-conductivity profiling system and a transient-pulse sounder. These instruments give undergraduates experience with electromagnetic methods in both the frequency and time domains, allow them to investigate a range of relevant environmental problems not previously possible, and provide interpretive techniques that are complementary to those used for other data.