Undergraduate

I am responsible for the teaching of the geophysics courses in the undergraduate curriculum. The four courses offered at present, together with links to the course outlines, are:

EASC 207: Introduction to Applied Geophysics

This course provides an introduction to the basic principles of geophysics and their use in resource exploration and environmental applications. The course focusses on gravity, magnetic, electrical resistivity and seismic refraction methods, and is designed to meet the requirements of professional registration for general Earth science students who have completed their first year courses in math and physics.

EASC 307: Applied Geophysics

This second course in applied geophysics focusses on more complex geophysical techniques that employ electromagnetic, ground penetrating radar, and seismic reflection methods. Students taking this course need to have completed EASC 207.

EASC 317: Global Geophysics

This course covers the basic principles of plate tectonics on a sphere, deomstrates the contributions that geophysical techniques such as gravity, magnetic, seismic (both active source and earthquake recording) and heat flow have made to the determination of Earth's internal structure. Students taking this course need to have completed EASC 207.

EASC 417: Seismology

This is an introductory course in seismology, and covers the elastic wave equation, the mathematics of some of its solutions, and their application to various problems in exploration and earthquake seismology. Students taking this course need to have completed multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Experience with a programming language and vector calculus would also be helpful.