Geology 8150:  Term Project

You will need to choose a research topic involving some aspect of inverse theory and seismology. You will need to find a problem that you can solve and present in a research paper and oral presentation.  Research topics can be any kind of seismological research project but you will need to solve the problem yourself.

The Final Project will have Three Stages:

I.                   Propose a topic with an abstract justifying your choice (Due 02/18/2009).  The abstract should describe the seismological inverse problem that you will solve and address in the presentation.

II.             Oral Presentation, 10 Minutes using transparencies, powerpoint, or posters.  Probably Starting 05/04/2009.  I will assign the time slots after receiving all of the topic abstracts.

III.              Final research paper should contain at least 10 pages of text and figures (more figures means less text).  (Due 05/08/2009)

Possible Research Topics:

(1)  LSQR vs SIRT tomography comparison

 (2)    Locating Slow Earthquakes .

 (3) Anisotropic Attenuation Tomography

(4)   Group or Phase Velocity Inversion Using Love and Rayleigh Waves

 (5)    Shear wave splitting tomography

(6)   Determining a Time Dependent B-Value for a given region

(7)  Joint Hypocentral EQ Location

(8)  Receiver Function Waveform Inversion using monte carlo inversion techniques

(9)  Using Ambient Noise to invert for Dispersion curves

OR

(10)  Find a new method that you can apply yourself (this might need to involve the help of outside scientists).

Hints:  You will need to be very specific in your choice to a research problem.  Do not choose a very broad and extremely difficult subject that cannot be solved within a semester.  ALso, choose a subject which is related to your thesis research and that you are interested in!

Grading

Presentations and papers will be graded on accuracy and clarity of the ideas presented in the paper and presentations.

Paper and talk should be:

1.      Well organized:  containing introduction, data,  results, conclusions

 2.      Clear:  containing grammatically correct text and well annotated figures.

 3.  Well researched and have a complete set of references using current research journals.

4. You should describe the research methods that you have used and clearly show how you solved your particular inverse problem.