Physical Acoustics Lab

The Physical Acoustics Laboratory (PAL) is part of the Department of Geosciences at Boise State University. Our interests are many, but center around wave propagation in disordered media for applications in Geophysics. Particularly, we are interested in extracting information from multiply scattered waves in heterogeneous media. In the lab, these waves are recorded via noncontacting techniques. For a more complete list of ongoing research at the PAL click, see Research Topics or the papers page.

Kasper van Wijk 16:49, 26 November 2007 (MST)

• Dylan Mikesell, Andy Lamb, Kasper van Wijk, Thomas Blum and Murari Khatiwada
• Collaborators
• Visitors

For a more complete list of ongoing research at the PAL click, see Research Topics. Publications stemming from these projects can be found on the papers page.

For example, this snapshot of the wavefield is described in this article. If you don't want to read, go see the movie. When you put many of these grooves (close) together, we see multiple scattering.

Multiply scattered waves pose a challenge in imaging, but also an opportunity.

The picture on the right is a comparison of a direct estimate of the Green function and the result of cross-correlating of waves bouncing around in granite.

Dylan lining things up.

• CGISS
• LaTeX templates for (BSU) thesis, posters and presentations
• webmail
• The mediawiki project
• BSU's geophysics students club

• 03 March: We are organizing a Rodney Calvert Tribute Technical Session at the upcoming SEG meeting
• 21 February: magnitude 6 Nevada earthquake felt (by some) in Boise
• 11 October: Check out the Boise State photo of the week
• 24 September: We have two job openings for tenure-track geophysicists
• 20 July: The CSM/BSU Geophysics Field dates for 2008 are available. We are open to applications from outside CSM/BSU!

• Hardware
• Open lab statement
• Contact info and directions
• History

A rough day at the AGU meeting, San Francisco 2007.

• SAGEEP, Philadelphia, PA, 6-10 April 2008
• SSA, Santa Fe, NM, 16-18 April 2008
• 2008 IRIS Workshop, Stevenson, WA 4-6 June 2008
• SEG, Las Vegas, NV, 9-14 November 2008

Major support for the lab comes from:

and Andy's espresso machine....