Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics
Redesigning geophysics research and education for the 21st Century
To meet the energy, water and climate system challenges of the 21st century, geophysicists will need to be trained differently that in the past. There will be greater reliance on interdisciplinary collaboration, machine learning, distributed sensing, and robotics. The Colorado School of Mines is transforming its geophysics department to place greater emphasis on computation, allow more flexibility in educational tracks and to recognize the transition of our profession. We are teaming with the Mines hydrology program to create a first of its kind MS track in hydrogeophysics. We are partnering with the Humanitarian engineering program to create an innovative geophysics program designed to assist parts of the world that have major challenges but limited resources to manage them. And we are reinvigorating our historical strength in energy focused geophysics with the recognition that an energy transformation in underway.