Thailand

This project sought to bring together students from all over Southeast Asia to work together to create a self-sustaining geophysics field program by training faculty and students and utilizing geophysical equipment that already exists in Southeast Asia. The field sites selected encompassed groundwater, archeology, and earthquake hazards challenges. Students were introduced to a combination of seismic (reflection, MASW, refraction), ground penetrating radar, electrical, gravity, and magnetic methods that addressed the local geotechnical problems.

Tanzania

Some five million people live in the greater Lake Tanganyika watershed and face extreme poverty, disease, and the effects of environmental degradation associated with unregulated development. Communities along the shores of Lake Tanganyika are dependent on fish, both for sustenance and generating income. This project formed the framework for defining small protected zones that will secure the health and productivity of the littoral fishery.

Sweden

This project focused on quick clay or rapid earth flow landslides in Sweden. These landslides are not particularly constrained to steep slopes and have been known to slides even in low-to-moderate angle slopes. Undisturbed quick clay resembles a water-saturated gel. When a mass of quick clay undergoes sufficient stress, it instantly turns into a flowing ooze, a process known as liquefaction.

Southern Haiti

Urban development continues at a fast rate in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas since the devastating January 2010. Accurate characterization of the regional earthquake hazard in this area is key to inform urban development and construction practices during the long reconstruction phase through which Haiti is currently going. This project will provides new GPS geodetic data to refine seismic hazard estimates in the region of rapid economic and demographic growth of southern Haiti, and train the […]

South Central Australia

The communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands were established in the 1930s with a spring fed creek as the primary water source. A dual reticulation system had operated with groundwater from two production wells providing water for all non-potable uses, with rainwater being the only potable supply. Various geophysics surveys were conducted in the hopes of locating potential water sources.

South Australia

Farmers worry about increased damages caused by Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombats (SHNW) and the associated viability of their land, whereas the general public and some conservation groups are concerned that current practices will see the species reduce in number, or become locally extinct. This project was part of a large-scale project aimed at developing a technique to model SHNW abundance at several different scales (state-wides, regionally and/or property specific).

South Australia

The South Australian Parliament gave Aboriginal people title to more than 103,000 square kilometers of arid land in the far northwest of South Australia. Rainfall is highly variable and the land is arid to semi-arid. Access to potable water is of critical importance for these remote communities. The project providesd information about available groundwater volume and quantity and suggested locations for future well installation.

South Africa

Over the last 30 years the groundwater at the Dayspring Children’s Village orphanage has dried up and it is suspected that a large stand of invasive trees may be contributing to the depletion. This project was aimed at restoring a sufficient water supply to the Dayspring School and documenting the effect of invasive trees on groundwater for broader application throughout South Africa.

Romania

After 40 years of aggressive mining and ore processing, the administrative area of Zlatna was declared “the most polluted area in Europe” during the 90s. Romania ranks tenth in the world in terms of the diversity of minerals produced in the country. Due in large part to the surveys conducted during this project, EU Structural funds were secured to bring potable water into the Ampoi Valley.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

The Haiti Subsurface Imaging (HASI) Project This project was aimed at helping build Haiti’s geoscience capability and searching for the 2010 earthquake fault by using Leica 60 laser theodolite and Trimble GPS system; Scintrex CG-5 Gravimeter; Geometrics 60-channel plus 24-channel, Geolde or a Propelled Energy Generator source. Global Geophysical donated GSR seismic recording nodes. EdgeTech 216 Chirp surveys were done on Lake Azuey and Mirogoane. The project team worked with Haitian partners to undertake productive […]