No 115 • OCTOBER 2018 SEG NEWSLETTER 27 A New Research Center at Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech Richard Wendlandt (
[email protected]), Zhaoshan Chang (SEG F,
[email protected]), Wendy Harrison (
[email protected]), Yaoguo Li (
[email protected]), SEG NEWS Thomas Monecke (SEG FL,
[email protected]), and Matthias Chung (
[email protected]) Colorado School of Mines and Virginia in developing 3-D geologic models for and exploratory data analysis solutions Tech have recently been awarded a mineral deposits, integrating diverse and visualization tools. Training of major grant by the National Science geoscience data to inform decision-mak- students and young professionals will Foundation to set up a new research ing and minimize geologic risk, be an important component of the new center focusing on advanced subsurface beginning with locating and mining center. earth resource modeling. The award subsurface earth resources and continu- The vision of the center has been has been made under the Industry/ ing through mine closure and environ- developed over the past three years University Cooperative Research mental remediation. The research will in close collaboration with a group of Centers program, which represents the be conducted in four thrust areas: (1) industry advisors. A planning meet- National Science Foundation’s primary development of geophysical and geo- ing supported by the National Science mechanism to support industry-driven, chemical instrumentation, analysis, and Foundation was conducted in Septem- precompetitive applied research. The interpretation methods for enhanced ber 2017, involving representatives from grant covers costs related to operating characterization of rock properties; (2) 38 exploration and mining companies the center and augments support the integration, scaling, and inversion of and government agencies.