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Geophysics Department

The Geophysics Department develops and implements geophysical techniques for investigating the earth's subsurface. We concentrate on solving problems important to the Department of Energy in the areas of fossil energy, hazardous and nuclear waste management and restoration, defense, nonproliferation, and energy-related basic research. The department staff have a broad range of expertise in seismology, electromagnetics, petroleum and sedimentary geology, thermal geophysics, and mechanical and electrical engineering. This breadth enables us to attack a wide variety of problems ranging from algorithm development and computer modeling, technology design and bench scale experimentation, to field experiments, data collection, processing, and interpretation. Leading-edge geophysical instrumentation development, often with industrial partners and particularly for borehole applications, is an important focus for the department; another major area is seismic and electromagnetic data modeling and inversion.
Contact

Gregory Elbring, Manager Geophysics Department
P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0750

Phone: 505/844-4904 - Fax: 505/844-7354
email: gjelbri@sandia.gov