Introduction to Near Surface Geophysics

Near-surface geophysics focuses on how the environment (soil, water, air) and human-made activities (mining, archaeology, agricultural practices, etc.) interact just below the surface of the Earth. Near-surface geophysics applications include how surficial processes affect groundwater, how near-surface fault zones and structures affect the stability of utilities and infrastructure, and even in forensic applications. This sector is suitable for those who want to study how humans and their impact can affect natural processes. Near-surface geophysics can involve field work, both in remote or urban areas, computer modeling, and interpretation of natural processes using specific tools, such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), and has wide applications for the energy and power sectors. This video was made in through collaboration between IRIS and North Carolina State University.

[mykrahmaan]

I have gone upto Phd in chemical engineering, but shifted to geophysics in the middle of it, because of strong interest in understanding the geophysics of life.

Didn't it ever occur to you that the foremost task of Geoscience specifically (though it applies to all search for knowledge as such, in general) must be to derive the mathematical model, and the formulae for, growth of plants as a function of particle interactions inside the earth that lead to composition of seeds, water and fertilizer, which enable them (plants) to grow?

It is obvious that such a process should exist, if we are to give physical explanation, and acquire control over, our own appearance on the surface of the earth.

This, composition of beings inside and delivery through plants as food to be assembled by already delivered beings, is a procrss that the earth performs billions of times every single day.

Why do we ignore this completely, i.e. to analyze the earth as the only vessel that performs this function in the entire known universe?

In addition, such knowledge of plants as nature's own "all in one" measuring instrument and potential controller of internal functions of the earth, would outperform, and render superfluous, all man made measuring instruments by far and serve as the only tool available to prevent disasters and deseases before they occur..

I would like to know your (and, of course, anybody else's) view on this, especially as plants remain the only tangible entity that delivers and sustains life (100%) in the entire known universe?

[JuanGomez-bubm]

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