Rice Center for Computational Geophysics

The Center for Computational Geophysics was established in 1998 to promote cross disciplinary studies of the Earth requiring large computational resources. Comprised of 10 faculty members and 3 research associates from the Geology & Geophysics, Computational & Applied Mathematics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering Departments, the Center has research areas in petroleum, environmental, and academic seismology, lithosphere and whole mantle geodynamics, and fault mechanics.

The Center is supported by Rice University, and has research funding from NSF, DOE, and two industrially sponsored consortia.

Cross-disciplinary professional M.S. and Ph.D. programs are offered by the Computational Science and Engineering Degree Program, allowing students in the three departments the opportunity to create a flexible research and course program.
 

Center Facilities


IBM RS6000 595 and Sun ES450 SMP computers in G&G
Promax 2-D Seismic Processing Software (3 licenses in G&G and CAAM)
Omega 3-D Seismic Processing Software (2 licenses in G&G and CAAM)
22 " Oyo Electrostatic Plotter in G&G
54 " HP Color Plotter Center in G&G
300 Gbyte disk space in G&G
 

Faculty and Research Associates


Geology &Geophysics

1. Richard G. Gordon
2. Adrian Lenardic
3.Alan Levander (Associate Director, CCG)
4. Juli Morgan
5. Igor Morozov
6. Dale Sawyer
7. Colin Zelt

Computational & Applied Mathematics

1. Liliana Borcea
2. William W. Symes (Associate Director, CCG)

Electrical & Computing Engineering

1. Richard Baraniuk (Associate Director, CCG)
2. Sidney Burrus (Dean of Engineering)
3. Jan Odegard
3. Philippe Steeghs



Center Consortia & Research Projects

1. The Rice Inversion Project (Symes: Industrial Sponsors)
2. Consortium for Computational Seismic/Signal Interpretation (Baraniuk,          Odegard : Industrial Sponsors)
3. High Resolution Seismic Imaging (Levander, Symes, Zelt, Dana: DOE)



Related Research Projects

1. Deep Probe Experiment (Levander: NSF Continental Dynamics)
2. Iberian Margin (Sawyer, Zelt: NSF OCE)
3. Chilean Margin (Zelt: NSF Geophysics)
4. CDROM (Levander: NSF Continental Dynamics)



Contact Information

Alan Levander: alan@geophysics.rice.edu
William W. Symes: symes@caam.rice.edu
Richard Baraniuk: richb@rice.edu
Jan Odegard: odegard@rice.edu
Lee Willson: leewil@geophysics.rice.edu