Senior Project on Geophysics-Geop402
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How can I download data, which is freely released for research, from worldwide project?
You can visit the page:
Then, you can define an area for your interest. For example, an area is simply defined for region of Alpine-Himalayan Collision Zone in coordinates:
20 - 120 East in degrees and 10-80 North in degrees.
Then, the data is appeared for releasing in SEGY format after click VIEW RESULTS, which were attached. This is a data you can take and work for your senior project if you like just for region of Alpine-Himalayan. If you like, you can play with the region and find some of other different data which is acquired through finalized research projects. If one of you having experience on data analysis by presently available well-known software such as Geoframe or Kingdom, then it is suggested that one can try to analyses any kind of data for different purposes in research.
Then, we can ask collaboration between ESD of KFUPM and Schlumberger or other companies to have you supporting on the use of data interpretation. Because, oil-field data is not allowed from any company like Schlumberger unless we are permitted by Ministry of Petroleum. Then, we should be realistic and ask some companies in Earth Science Sector such as Schlumberger or Saudi Aramco to cooperate with your project regarding their expertise and guidance of using their software.
Copyright © 2007 Ali O.Oncel, all rights reserved.
What kind of software we have for analysis of seismic data?
We have a new software named KINGDOM, provided ten licenses which works in PC and you can use it for analysis for any kind of data. The link for software is given from the site:
That is an additional options for you.
What kind of factors affecting my grade or success in conducting my senior project?
Please note that I will continue considering any effort for grading you later:
a) Timely attendance to class, not after instructor: Students are suggested to be in class before instructor or on time.
b) Timely communicate or contribute to ongoing discussion through e-mail: You are supposed to provide a feedback or suggest any innovative idea which might pose a synergy through your research group. Try your best to put a different perspective on any issue under discussion through e-mail following discussion in research team. Your contribution through e-mail is significantly asked to discuss any detail of your project regarding method, results and project design. Otherwise, your contribution might be poor to develop projected idea of senior project. Thus, you are nominated as a person with poor contributor.
c) Timely providing assignments: Instructor has no responsibility to remind you about the deadline after any assignment has been given to you. You are responsible to keep your works on submitting on time.
I should not tell you that 80% is the official requirement for attending weekly to consultancy class and laboratory in case we decide to meet. Hence, any student exceeding three absences for both class and laboratory sessions will be awarded a “DN” grade for this course. Also, let me know for regular meeting time, not later tomorrow. Nothing is accepted for excuse unless you provide an official excuse through the Deanship of Student Affairs.
It is a time for students conducting a senior project in which it can be part of individual project or collaborative project. Collaborative project makes a good way for anyone to learn many things faster than one can learn through individual project. Thus, best of research is always resulted from a team-based work. Thus, students, who are cooperative with industry or other researcher, are always appeared to be with their superior attitudes.
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I have asked you that you should make a time for first meeting. Please note that
this is one hour for meeting and plus five hours for field work or lab
work. If any of you are not visiting me today, you will take first absence of
Senior Project. You can come to visit me individually also to express your
interest for your senior project. I am here today except lunch time.
Please consider that Senior Project
is the most serious class you have ever taken since you will test your previous
knowledge or background to conduct something individually.
Subject: USGS Source: Application of Surface Geophysics to Ground-water Investigations
Students need to make timely respond and provide some feedback which enrich the proposed ideas through project? If one is well-prepared to class or come with fresh ideas, it means that he is on the way of a long and distinguished career.
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Dear friends,
A good project design is based on mutually and continuously discussion and finding some common points which trigger to establish a research team. Otherwise, primitive ideas for conducting a joint research can not be matured unless bilateral discussion is accomplished. Literature review and seeking some remaining gaps in region or world make you help to detect some research lines.
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Dear All,
Please look at our previous experience through beach from the site:
http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/ES/oncel/FieldTripGeop202.pdf
The field work above has been done old-seismic equipment with 12 channels with two shooting. Now, we have 48 channel seismic equipment and providing high quality seismic data with multiple shooting which should be at least 7. Then, we can expect to have a better work. Slides 6,7 shows changes in 1-D Shear-wave model and 2D P-wave velocity model.
I have attached a paper
regarding an integrated works of resistivity and seismic, which might help you
in preparing your proposal. Figure 1 , which is attached paper, indicates a good
example how to prepare a field design. It is a good idea to use same lines but
different colors as:
SL 1: Seismic Line 1
RL 1: Resistivity Line 1
In addition to this, I suggest you adding one line as:
GL 1: Gravity Line 1
You can also use the same
points to measure gravity values. Then, I suggest you to look for the paper from
library titled as:
Ronald A. van Overmeeren
A combination of electrical resistivity, seismic refraction, and gravity
measurements for groundwater exploration in Sudan Geophysics (September 1981),
46(9):1304-1313 GeoRef Record
...part of a groundwater
project...resistivity, seismic refraction, and gravity...of fresh groundwater in
the eastern...problem, seismic refraction work was...resistivity, seismic
refraction, and gravity...measurements for groundwater exploration...
Then, title for your senior project we can propose as:
Application of geophysical methods for groundwater
contamination in KFUPM Beach
Please note that I suggested you to consider areas of flat and sand-dune for
making geophysical profiles.
Geophysical Methods, which are a part of title here, are electrical resistivity,
seismic refraction, and gravity measurements. Then, you should separate roles
for getting a different responsibility for each of geophysical methods as:
Student 1: seismic refraction (Hassan?)
Student 2: electrical resistivity (Ahmad)
Student 3: gravity (Ali?)
Student 4: shear wave? (Omar..)
If Abdurrahman want to be a part
of this project, he can make reflection through the same line but he wants to
work in VSP.
Please discuss, suggest and improve suggested ideas and then share through
e-mail? Please send me your one page first draft of your project proposal due
next Wednesday for review. Your proposal should be separate even the area or
purpose seems the same, as expected for your final report?
Good luck with your project.
Best wishes,
Semantic meaning of feedback is to provide advice. criticism about how successful or or useful something is. Thus, any kind of suggestion or comments through any drafted work is always helpful to have a milestone in research. In briefly, no way to make a cooperation with somebody unless he provide you a feedback on time.
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Dear Omar,
Thanks for your e-mail. Most important thing is to develop a field design
which includes the position of profiles and field schedule. Please make it
those soon and include your one-page proposal due to this Wednesday.
Including or extracting new technique is not so big problem but you should
explain clearly what you might conduct a work for to where to search? For
example, you should make clear for such thing:
a) Profile Length? 100 m?
b) Number of Profiles? 6?
c) Profile Design? Horizontal and Transverse Profiles?
d) Area of research through Flat and Sand- dune? What will be distance
between
profiles? Why?
e) Field Schedule: Once in week? Date, Day? It is urgent since we should
ask for permission of technician and cars from Department?
Such kind of things are requiring you to read more about the potential of geophysics and previous works which have been done in beach.
Good luck.
Regards,
Ali Oncel
----- Original Message -----
From: "OMAR ABDULLAH SAEED BAWAZIR" <s237843@kfupm.edu.sa>
To: <oncel@kfupm.edu.sa>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:55 PM
Good afternoon Dr.Ali,
We have sufficient time to wait until the Resistivity-meter works well,
we can start with the seismic Refraction, regarding data acquisition,
processing & interpretation, after that, we can resume with the
electrical method. otherwise, we can replace it by using GPR (Ground
Penetrating Radar), and I think that the department has a new one
also, and I hope to be
available to the student activities.
Regarding,
Ba-wazir, Omar A.
Subject: Available Active Global Seismic Data: Reflection/Refraction S
Assignment 1: Write a one page proposal
You can visit the page:
http://www.iris.edu/SeismiQuery/assembled.phtml
Then, you can define and area for your interest. For example, I defined an area
for region of Alpine-Himalayan Collision Zone in coordinates:
20 - 120 East and 10-80 North.
Then, the data is appeared for releasing in SEGY format after click VIEW
RESULTS, which were attached. This is a data you can take and work for your
senior project if you like just for region of Alpine-Himalayan. If you like, you
can play with the region and find different data for different region. I suggest
one of you having experience on data analysis by Geoframe, then one can try to
analyses any kind of data as shown and strength your relation.
Then, we can ask collaboration
between ESD and Schlumberger to have you supporting on the use of data
interpretation. Because, oil-field data is not allowed from any company like
Schlumberger unless we are permitted by Ministry of Petroleum. Then, we should
be realistic and ask Schlumberger to cooperate with us regarding their expertise
and guidance of using their software.
On the other hand, we have a new software named KINGDOM, provided ten licenses
which works in PC and you can use it for analysis for any kind of data. The link
for software is given from the site:
http://www.seismicmicro.com/Prod_Geo.htm
That is an additional options for you.
Let me have to have first one
page proposal for your project due to tomorrow. Please note that I will continue
any effort for grading you later and for any absence of your work or yourself is
considered.
I should not tell you that 80% is
the official requirement for attending weekly consultancy class. It means that
three absences might make a DN for any of you. Also, let me know for regular meeting time, not later
tomorrow.
Good luck.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Regards,
Ali Oncel
----- Original Message -----
From: "OMAR ABDULLAH SAEED BAWAZIR" <s237843@kfupm.edu.sa>
To: <oncel@kfupm.edu.sa>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:05 AM
Subject: proposal+assign.#1
> Good morning Dr.Ali
>
> Herewith the attachments of my proposal & the assignment#1 that is
> due to October 3.
>
> Regarding
>
> Ba-wazir, Omar A.
> 237843
Subject: Re: GEOP 402
Assignment 2: Present your initial proposal
Thanks for your e-mail. I have checked your one page proposal and can make some preliminary suggestions:
a) Motivation: Tell about a couple of something which motivates you to conduct such kind of work.
b) Region: Tell about a region why it is important to work there.
c) Background: Report some of previous works made a succeed regarding your purpose, thus positive results encourage you selecting methods.
d) Outcome: What you expect to find and show up in final?
e) Field Works: How many profiles are required to complete your work and how many days you should work in the field? Make a schedule for field work and report me what you need from the department of ESD we might provide you supporting your work?
I hope such things might help your revising your proposal. Please prepare me five minutes presentation for defending your proposal next week, then we can discuss. My suggestions are valid for other students of Geop402.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Ali
----- Original Message
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From: "ALI ESSA ALI AL-HALAL" <s223604@kfupm.edu.sa>
To: "Dr. Oncel " <oncel@kfupm.edu.sa>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:14 AM
Subject: GEOP 402
>
> Dear Dr. Oncel,
> Attached is a draft of my proposal..
>
>
> regards,
>
> Ali Al Halal
> 223604
Assignment 3: Trip Report
Please let me know the time for weekly class for Geop402? As I said, this is one hour class and three absences through semester may conclude with DNR? Then, make a time you always can be in class ASAP?
Best wishes,
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: Fw: Visit to Schlumberger Talk and Collaboration
Dear Students,
Please let me know two options for weekly meeting of Geop402? It is urgent? Also, let me know if you have any suggestions on some items of joint collaboration.
It would be better to know how many days you might work? For example, you can say you can work everyday from 2 AM to 5 AM? Then, I organize a working schedule for you and propose to Schlumberger for having you permission to enter Schlumberger.
Best wishes,
Assignment 4: Feedback on Collaborative Proposal
end of proposal under title as: Background for students
I suggest other students they should follow information regarding their background and send the proposal through list of group ASAP. Please work over the draft proposal. On the other hand, you are welcome to contribute to any part of proposal but highlight in different color, then I can review.
Best wishes,
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: URGENT
>
> Dear Dr. Oncel,
>
> Pleases find attached my draft for the new proposal.
>
> Regards,
> Abdulrahman Al-Shuhail
Let's meet 11 am on Wednesday for our weekly regular meeting since Abdurrrahman and Omar confirmed the time is OK.
Hamid- Could you please let me know we might have any vacant class or room in Building 3? I think a room or class might be better for us in Bld 3 rather than Bld 26, since we plan to make joint meeting with Dr. Cesar, from Schlumberger, who might be with us for some of our meeting as long as his schedule is fine. On the other hand, we might make some of regular meeting in Schlumberger. Also, this week we might make a joint meeting and Dr.Cesar might be with us to discuss the detail of joint project as:
a) Experiments: Seismic and Resistivity
b) Instruments and Software
c) Profile Design in Region of Study
d) Schedule of Field Work
e) Effective/Creative Participation of KFUPM and Schlumberger
f) Expected Outcome
Ebu Cihad- As TA of Geop-402 and technician, you are invited to participate to our meetings.
Assignment 5: A short presentation for a reference paper
Thanks for your offering another paper regarding your interest.
Best wishes,
Ali Oncel
----- Original Message -----
From: "OMAR ABDULLAH SAEED BAWAZIR" <s237843@kfupm.edu.sa>
To: <oncel@kfupm.edu.sa>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Attention:Omar
> Hi Dr.Ali
>
> Thank you for your arrangment for the meeting today.
> and regarging to the paper which you have sent for me, it is O.K. but
> the technique which described with it is very old and I think it is not
> very interesting. Instead, I have another paper talking about the
> integration of Geophysical methods and includes information about the
> using of GPR with electrical resistivity, and this may add an new idea
> to use GPR in addition to seismic and resistivity.
>
> Regarding.
> Ba-wazir, Omar A.
Now, it is concern for us to finalize first part of project which is Data Acquisition. Please make your time available and try to get an excuse to participate to field work considering schedule of Dr.Cesar. First part is most important thing for you all. Actually, we might work in six seismic lines, then you can take one of those lines and make analysis of your data. Then, we can compare your analysis and see what and why something has changed through profiles.
In summary, I suggest you to work together in the field and then take one line for analysis to analyze several types of data with well-known software.
Please make your time free during time for field work. Let me know if I could help you more. To my sense, I suggest you to take an excuse during the field work and work full time if you could.
See you next Wednesday with your short presentation regarding "Integrated
Methods in Geophysics".
Thanks for your question.
Best wishes,
Subject: Re: senior project
a) Seismic
b) Electric
You are supposed to work with data for one line, not for entire data which
is acquired in 3D.
I accept Omer for second group since he already nominated himself. Let me nominate also yourself through e-mail. We can discuss detail in later during our next joint meeting.
Best wishes,
Subject: senior project
According to the all information which you have sent up to now, we have seismic and geoelectric applications, so we should divide our self into two main groups: one group working on the seismic and the other group on the electric resistivity. This will be less time consuming ,I think, and more fairly for the students who are more interested in one method over the other. So, I nominate my self in the 2nd group, since I want to improve my knowledge in processing and re-processing the data collected by Syscal-R1 plus switch, based on what I have learned in the last spring summer. Finally, the time work is very important, as I have told you in the previous massage!!!!!!!!! Again, this is all from my own opinion, and I hope the other students to share the agreement with me , otherwise , another suggestion is made.
Thank you.
Dear Hassan,
You were not with us during our joint meetings with Schlumberger and we could not aware of your interest, even though I am not informed about your excuses.
It is good to see that you have an individual way for working alone since other students made agreement for proposed project. Regarding student's acceptance and mutual interest, I and Dr.Cesar developed a joint project.
I am happy more than you if you could develop an individual project. You should make a one page proposal ASAP which should include:
Objective
Method
Instrument
Software
Field Schedule
Expected Outcome
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Ali Oncel
Subject: Assignment 6, November 1
Please find manual and demo data for Seismic Softwares:
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/satish/kfupm/
Visit to class page and take
a list of papers for reading to understand more how REMI and Seismic
Tomography has been applied to field survey.
Also, please upload Resistivity 3D program for any computer coordinating
with Mohammed Ebu Cihad? Try to understand the programs and run it with demo
data. Try to find some papers which are based on the software Res3D for
understanding the results how it has been calculated and interpreted.
Ask questions regarding softwares of Seismic Software to me, Resistivity to
Dr.Qahwash, Reflection to Dr.Shuhail? Share us with manual of Resistivity
and Reflection through e-mail. Next Thursday (November 1), you are supposed
to present a short presentation on your experience with software we have?
Best wishes,
Ali