Some of our Geosciences alumni and friends are making donations to The Petroleum GeoSystems Enrichment Fund in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Hands-on experience is a vital component of the Initiative. Field Stratigraphy is a nine-day course that visits the Guadalupe Mountains. Students measure outcrop in clastic (turbidite) and carbonate systems. GeoSystems students are responsible for describing how this outcrop is analogous to subsurface examples from a geological, geophysical, and engineering standpoint.

In Advanced Stratigraphy, we strive to instill both a theoretical foundation and hands-on techniques to allow students to interpret earth history from stratigraphy. The course includes a five-day trip to study Cretaceous strata of the Book Cliffs in Utah.

In MultiChannel Seismic Processing and Interpretation the students learn the fundamentals of reflection theory, process their own seismic data, and visit a seismic shoot.

Reservoir Geosystems focuses on petroleum geosystem processes and their interactions. The course includes seismic/log interpretation, reservoir simulation and a four-day field trip to the Guadalupe Mountains to examine a turbidite system.

GeoSystems Team members present their research at on-site meetings with their industry sponsors, and attend professional and research consortium meetings.

The data sets that we work with are huge. Expensive hardware and software are necessary to allow the students to process and interpret their data.

With an eye to the future, we provide GeoSystems awards to exceptional undergraduate students who have an interest in applied fields.

The AGIF, Applied Geophysical Instructional Facility, provides hardware and software for subsurface analysis for the entire department.

GeoSystems Initiative, 305 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-7072, Fax: 814-863-7823, Email: geosystem@geosc.psu.edu