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Environmental Geophysics

Choose what you need today. Every route leads directly to a lesson, interactive app, practice set, or classroom investigation.

New to the course? Begin with Introduction, test one prediction in a demo, then check your reasoning in Practice Lab.

What do you want to do?

Four direct starting points

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Teach a class

Open presentation-ready slides with explanation, prediction, demo, guided questions, practice, and discussion.

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Explore a method

Choose a chapter and work through its concepts, interactive demos, activities, and scientific limitations.

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Practice and check

Answer formative questions by topic and get immediate feedback before moving to the next method.

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Work with data

Explore real Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory survey data on an interactive map, with a documented catalog and processing notebook.

Course path

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  1. Foundations

    Targets, property contrasts, resolution, noise, and non-uniqueness.

    Introduction

  2. Potential fields

    Map density and magnetization contrasts from surface anomalies.

    GravityMagnetics

  3. Elastic waves

    Use travel times and wave behavior to investigate subsurface structure.

    Seismic

  4. Electrical & EM

    Connect currents and fields to conductivity, polarization, and depth.

    ElectricalEM & MT

  5. High resolution & ground truth

    Resolve shallow targets and connect surface surveys with borehole evidence.

    GPRBorehole

Resources

Open only when you need them

APLL Field DataAshton Prairie Living Laboratory data hub Colab notebooksRun computational examples PyHydroGeophysXOpen the research repository ReferencesVerify methods and citations
Course materials by Hang Chen ยท University of Iowa