In this lecture, the students will extend their knowledge on the parameters controlling the electrical properties of the subsurface and have the opportunity to use this information to understand environmental, hydrogeological and biogeochemical processes. To this end, the students will get into details of the different electrical and electromagnetic method, as required to better identify their advantages and disadvantages as well as to design a geophysical survey. Based on the revision of to date literature, the student will review the recent methodologies for the collection, modeling and interpretation of electrical and electromagnetic methods.
The electrical properties of rocks and soils and Maxwell laws
Electrical conduction mechanisms in the subsurface
Electrical Double Layer
Induced Polarization imaging: mechanisms, survey design and interpretation
Transient Electromagnetic sounding: application and interpretation
Data-error characterizationand inversion of imaging data
Biogeophysics: an emerging discipline
The student should present the application of electrical and electromagnetic methods for a given problem in geosciences. Followed by questions from the audience and invited PhD students. The evaluation is based on the ability of the student to properly address such questions.
Not necessary
Physics, Mathematics, Fundamentals of Geophysics, Applied Geophysics
