The GeoSystems Initiative receives funding from:

Chevron
Both Chevron and Texaco separately provided major support to the Initiative from its inception in the form of the Chevron GeoSystems Fellowship and the Texaco GeoSystems Fellowship, and continue to do so now. This year Chevron has donated $30,000 to the GeoSystems program. Since 1983, Chevron (formerly ChevronTexaco) has contributed more than $5.7 million in support of Penn State's programs and people. The company employs more than 214 Penn State alumni and regularly recruits students. Penn State was recently established as a Tier One engineering recruiting school for Chevron as well as a core school for MBA recruiting. See complete story in "Gifts That Impact."

Landmark Graphics
Has donated software valued at over $6 million for use in the Applied Geophysics Instructional Facility (AGIF). This facility is critical to our teaching and research in applied and fundamental problems.

Shell Exploration and Production Company, Shell Oil and the Shell Foundation Shell has been the foremost supporter of the Initiative, providing not only substantial start-up funds and student fellowships but also donating data sets (including seismic, wireline, core, and production data) to serve as the basis of research for all four of the Geosystems Teams. This year Shell Oil Company has donated $60,000 for the 2006-2007 fiscal year. See complete story in "Gifts That Impact." Photo: Bob Jefferis Venture Manager - Houston, EPAmericas, PSU Campus Executive and Sue Waters Manager EPW Drilling Operations, Subsurface Support, and PSU Campus Team Manager meet with Peter Flemings Professor of Geosciences, Co-Director Geosystems and the Petroleum GeoSystems Students: Matthew Reilly: geologist, Charles (Spike) Bohn: geologist, Joseph Valenti: geophysicist, Doruk Seren: Petroleum Engineer, Lucas Luginbuhl: Petroleum Engineer

Previous funding from:

Amerada Hess
Amerada Hess has previously sponsored the Amerada Hess GeoSystems Graduate Scholarship and provided general funds for use by the Initiative.

Anadarko
Anadarko has previously sponsored the Anadarko GeoSystems Graduate Scholarship.

IBM
In 98/99 the Department of Geosciences received a robotic tape storage facility hardware donation from IBM. This facility provided on-line and nearline storage for all of our geoscience data which included hundreds of gigabytes of seismic data. In addition the facility provided automatic back-up capability to all machines in the department. Since that time the data has been moved off the tape storage facility onto a series of high performance disks.

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