State-of-the-Art in Geophysics

State-of-the-Art in Geophysics for Geohazards (land)

Anne-Laure Bouillon completed her Diploma Thesis at ICG in August 2005. The goal was to:

• use geophysical equipment available at UiO and NGI, and write simple and well-illustrated user manuals to be used by students, geophysicists, and non-geophysicists. The equipment consists mostly of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) with several antennas, seismic refraction, and reflection acquisition system, and resistivity equipment (systems with electrodes or OhmMapper)
• assist students in field practice: Master students of UiO (Environmental Geology and Geohazards) and other universities (participation in the hydrogeology field course, Bø, Telemark, June 2005, UiO/UMB/HiT Cooperation)
• apply some of the methods to a few test sites for case studies in order to describe the best practice approach in geophysical investigations for geohazard assessment

State-of-the-Art in Geophysics for glacial hazards (land)

Isabelle Thollet's Diploma Thesis, completed in December 2006 at ICG was done in order to:

• participate in the planning and execution of geophysical fieldwork at the Flatbre moraine site (see further) on September 2006
• gather all collected geophysical data at Flatbre and process the seismic ones in order to produce preliminary results at the end of the internship.

Useful reference and documentation for methods overview and best practice:

• Ombeline Méric, Studying landslides with geophysics, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Grenoble, in French.
  "Association pour la qualité en géophysique appliquée non petrolière", in French.