MN-GM-GEOAFC+

Specialisation Module: Advanced Geophysical Field Course
Identification number MN-GM-GEOAFC		Workload 270 h	Credits 9	Term 2nd, (1st) semester	Offered Every year	Start SuSe	Duration 1 semester
1	Course types a) Practical Training b) Seminar			Contact time 30 h 30 h		Private study 120 h 90 h
2	Module objectives and skills to be acquired Practical experience in direct current resistivity and electromagnetic prospection techniques, survey design, target identification, resolution of the methods, data evaluation, 1D and 2D modelling. General overview of the methods and their strength and weaknesses. Skills to be acquired: Ability to plan, conduct, protocol, interpret and document direct current resistivity and electromagnetic geophysical measurements Ability to choose the most appropriate method for a given exploration problem The ability in scientific writing is trained In GEOAFC+, students will present a talk on the methods in the seminar (while GEOAFC students only attend this seminar), thus in GEOAFC+ also the ability to give oral presnetations is trained.
3	Module content Direct Current Method with Multielectrode System (2D-DC) Radiomagnetotelluric (RMT) Loop Source Transient Electromagnetic Soundings (TEM) LOTEM data analysis and modelling Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) / Ground conducting meters (HLEM) Conventional (as well as advanced) processing and interpretation techniques for above geophysical methods Accounting for new developments in electromagnetic methods of applied geophysics and/or instrumentation the above methods and their interpretation techniques may be replaced. Literature: W.E. Telford et. al., Applied Geophysics, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Nabighian, M.N., Electromagnetic soundings in applied geophysics, SEG,1987. M.S. Zhadanov and G.V. Keller, The geoelectrical methods in applied geophysics, SEG, 1987. D. S. Parasanis, Principles of Applied Geophysics, Halsted Press Book, 1979.
4	Teaching methods Practical training (as a field course, including tutorials), seminar about methods (the method presentations are given by GEOAFC+ participants)
5	Requirements for participation Formal: None. The content of the course requires the undergraduate knowledge of mathematics, physics and applied geophysics (basics of electric and electromagnetic methods).
6	Type of examination Written report (graded), seminar talk (graded). The "Guidelines of the University of Cologne on good scientific practice" (Official Communications of the University of Cologne 8/2022) apply.
7	Credits awarded The module is passed, and the credit points will be awarded, if the practical training is passed (ungraded); this is the case when all practical experiments have been passed. A practical experiment is considered to have been passed if, before the start of an experiment, sufficient knowledge of the theory and the implementation of the respective experiment (this includes in particular a written measurement preparation) has been proven in the context of an attestation, the specified measurements themselves were carried out individually or in a group, and were fully recorded in writing; and the written report (graded, 70 % weight in the module grade) is passed, and the seminar talk (graded, 30 % weight in the module grade) is passed.
8	Compatibility with other Curricula Suitable as an elective course for physics students.
9	Proportion of final grade Weight of the module grade in the overall grade: 9/150 (6 %)
10	Module coordinator Pritam Yogeshwar
11	Further information Version: 2023-04-03