Tools

My Interview with the EAGE about the Way of the Geophysicist

The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) interviewed me. It appears in the 2015 edition of their student newsletter. My… Read More

2015-08-26

Melting drones on Vanuatu – Amazing footage from an active volcano

Recent advances in technology have made drones available to the general public. And as nerds go, they have found brilliant… Read More

2015-07-28

The subjective science of seismic interpretation

The final step in the work with seismic data is seismic interpretation. In a scientific field called geophysics, interpretation sounds… Read More

2015-03-07

New on StackExchange: Temporal Resolution of Seismic data

Radius of the Fresnel zone is given by [math]Rf=(v/2)(t_0/f_\mathrm{dom})^{1/2}[/math] where v: velocity of layer [math]t_0[/math]: two way travel time [math]f_\mathrm{dom}[/math]… Read More

2015-01-19

Do we even need math? – Calculus in geophysics and geology

The amount of calculus in geophysics and geology degrees varies throughout every university and even in uni itself, there seldomly… Read More

2015-01-19

Lifesavers – Two tools in my daily worklife

Today I'd like to share two tools that I have found indespensible in the course of my studies. Ironically, these… Read More

2014-12-16

Lying with statistics.

You can see it quite often today, that an essential part of an axis is missing. I usually think highly… Read More

2014-12-05

Promax 2D Multiple Reduction

I am at a point, I could use some help with the program Promax 2D from Landmark Corp. I have… Read More

2014-09-25

Fly over Bardabunga

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2014-09-15

Gravity explained – no rubber sheet

I've always been suspicious of the rubber sheet explanation for gravity. It was tautological, explaining gravity through gravity. Just didn't… Read More

2014-09-11