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Things only a geophysicist knows
100

This graduate student is president of the Society of Geophysics Graduate Students. 

Who is Ali Downard?

100

This is the first geophysics course in the undergraduate curriculum sequence.

What is GPGN 228?

100

This faculty members' favorite activity is pickling wild raspberries.

Who is Andrei Swidinsky?

100

The Department buried two of these (one old style, one new) in the northwest quadrant of Kafadar Commons in the fall of 2017.  

What are coffins or caskets?

After burial, there was even an inpromptu funeral.

100

During gravity surveys, one must correct for the gravitational field at latitude; At what latitudes is the Earth's gravitational field the strongest?

What are 90 degrees South and 90 degrees North (the Poles)?

200

Daily Double

Name the two graduate students who had papers in the Top 25 papers of SEG in 2019.

Who are Tugrul Konuk and Odette Aragao?

200

This is where the 2021 Geophysics Field Camp will be held. 

What is Gunnison, Colorado?

200

This faculty member's wife is a renowned concert pianist

Who is Ilya Tsvankin?

200

Known as one of the pioneers of geophysical prospecting, he joined the Mines faculty in 1926 and began the first formal course in the subject the United States in January, 1927.

Who is Carl Heiland?

200

This boundary separates the crust from the mantle

What is the Moho or Mohorovicic Boundary?

300

This graduate student from the Center for Rock & Fluid Multiphysics organized an Indonesian Iftar-to-Go at the beginning of the Covid Pandemic.

Who is Gama Firdaus?

300

She is the Geophysics Undergraduate Counselor.

Who is Jaime Bachmeier.?

300

Name one of the two Geophysics faculty members who lost all of their belongings on a burning boat in the sea roughly halfway between a UNESCO Global Geological Park and the Hong Kong Harbor. For a Daily Double, name both

Who is Manika Prasad or Mathias Pohl?

300

The Department of Geophysics established its new home in Green Center in the early 1970s, moving out of this ornate neighbor.

What is Berthoud Hall?

300

This is the Poisson's ratio of air.

What is 0?

400

This Geophysics Graduate student is the president of the Graduate Student Government. 

Who is Max Silver?

400

Name one interdisciplinary program available in Geophysics? 

What is Humanitarian Engineering or Space Resources?

400

23 years is the longest any faculty member has served in this position.

What is GP Department Head?

400

This is the number of GP department heads in the last four years.

What is four?

400

A Ricker wavelet has this phase.

What is the zero-phase?


500

This Geophysics Graduate student is the current Tsar of CWP.

Who is Cullen Young?

"Tsar" is the name given to the student coordinator of the CWP weekly meeting.

500

The geophysics undergrad was the first African American student at Mines.

Who is Deacon Guffie E. Menogan?

Mr. Menogan receive a $100 football scholarship to attend Mines in 1948. Unfortunately, due to the times, he was unable to complete his degree.

500

She was the first woman to receive a graduate degree at Mines, in Geophysics.

Who is Cathy Skogan?

500

Geophysicist and philanthropist Cecil Green, for whom Green Center is named, picked up a small company called Geophysical Service Inc. that eventually became this technology company headquartered in Dallas.

What is Texas Instruments?

500

A geophone measures this.

What is particle velocity?