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Applied Geophysics: Resources for Teaching and Learning at UBC

Here are pointers to information on applied geophysics for undergraduates at UBC and others.
(This page is at http://www.eos.ubc.ca/resources/appgeop/index.html)

Several slideshows explaining geophysics

Careers in geophysics

Career information on the EOS website.
The Geophysics Option at UBC
Careers in geophysics - an excellent primer at the CSEG (Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists).
Career advice from one of the sages of geophysics, Jon Claerbout (The Green Professor at Stanford University).

Informational and inspirational career oriented slide shows and handouts

Courses for engineers, geologists and others at UBC

Courses for geophysics students

IAG - Inversion for Applied Geohysics learning resourcesIAG logo

See the IAG home page for details about the contents and objectives, and for instructions on obtaining a free copy of the entire package.

The UBC-GIF (UBC Geophysical Inversion Facility) IAG package of resources is a teaching and learning facility for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in geophysics who need to learn about the application of non-seismic geophysical inversion methods.

The objective is to provide all reading and active learning resources necessary to become proficient at using inversion methods to build models from geophysical survey data. The focus is on potential fields methods (gravity and magnetics), DC resistivity and induced polarization. Documentation for modelling and inversion codes for electromagnetic data are part of the package, but in this first version of IAG there are few other resources related EM methods. Seismic reflection and refraction are rarely mentioned.

 AGLO (Applied Geophysics Learning Objects)

agloAGLO is a collection of over 30 individual online learning objects developed by Francis Jones with funding from BCcampus in 2005/2006. The resources were built to support learning about applied geophysics, and are described on their own webpage.

AGLO resources should be useful for students and professionals
(i) who need to learn how geophysics contributes to specific geoscience problems in engineering, environment management, resource exploration etc., and
(ii) who are interested in the details about how applied geophysics works.

All modules are licensed for use under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons Licence.

The resources are also available free for use by BC institutions of post secondary learning. They are housed at BCcampus's "Shareable Online Learning Resources" server (SOL*R) - a repository for online programs, courses, and learning resources. Students and instructors can create their own accounts on this system using the "Create an Account" tab at the top of their home page.

TAGFLO; The Applied Geophysics Framework Learning Object

TAGFLO is AGLO's "flagship" resource - a FLASH-based interactive resouce for learning about a general 7-step framework for applying geophysics. Appropriate for all who need, use, or are interested in, non-invasively obtained information about the earth's subsurface. Target level is roughly 2rd or 3rd year university, or anyone with at least a highschool level exposure to earth sciences.

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Some other resources

 

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