Lecture times	Tuesday 3-4.30 p.m. and Friday 9.00 -10.30Room E217 Howe-Russell Building
Office hours	Room 215 (Old Howe-Russell Building)  For appointments: e-mail: juan@geol.lsu.edu
Suggested  textbooks:	Robert E. Sheriff, 1991/2002 Encyclopedic Dictionary of Exploration/Applied Geophysics,  Third/Fourth Edition   Robert E. Sheriff, L. P. Geldart, 1995 Exploration Seismology , 2nd Ed.,
Aims:	Introduce seismic data acquisition, processing and related limitations of seismic interpretation
Course work	Each student will be responsible for leading  3 hours of presentations on a specific week, using papers on a specific topic and explaining the concept using SUNix and or OmegaSPS. Students should be quick (by middle of September) to establish a reading list of 10-20 papers on their specific topic and think of example hands-on exercises ASAP.  These papers should be distributed to the rest of the class and instructor in advance of the week in which the student will lead the seminar classes. Students will also be assigned short questions to research and present to the class on a regular basis. In the manner of a tentative guide,Tuesdays will be dedicated to the presentation of theoretical concepts and Fridays will be dedicated to presenting hands-on exercises. On weeks where the instructor leads the meetings, Fridays will be dedicated to hands-on learning using SUnix and OmegaSPS and to short 5-minute presentations to the whole group by each of the students on the current state of their project. In addition to the topics suggested in the outline below, students are encouraged to include topics of their own interest to be addressed at regular meetings.
Tentative	Lectures by visiting geophysics professionals

Meetings

Fri 27	Introduction to course requirements and computer lab
Tue 31	Introduction to SUnix and Tape Formats. Data conversion exercise

Meetings

Fri 3
Tue 7	Spectral Analysis, Band-Pass filtering, Geometric spreading Attenuation and AGC  with SUnix
Fri 10	Fourier Theory, spikes,
Tue 14	Introduction to OmegaSPS Fresnel Zone, Trace Reverse/Kill
Fri 17
Tue 21	CMP/CDP Method Data Geometry,
Fri 24
Tue 28	Convolutional Model of the Earth Synthetic seismograms	CLAY WESTBROOK leads this week

Meetings

Fri 1
Tue 5	Fourier Theory, spikes,	SIDNEY EGNEW leads  this week
Fri 8	no class - Fall Holiday
Tue 12	no class	GCAGS- San Antonio, TX 10-12 Oct; SEG 10-15 Oct
Fri 15
Tue 19	Nyquist frequency, Aliasing Snell's Law, critical angles, spatial aliasing, f-k filtering
Fri 22
Tue 26	Reflection Coefficients Wave conversions, Migration
Fri 29

Meetings

Tue 2	Normal Moveout Constant velocity stacks, Normal Moveout Stretch
Fri 5
Tue 9	Semblance analysis plot, Seismic Velocities	GSA Meeting-Denver 7-10
Fri 12
Tue 16	AVO	ADENIYI SAANUMI leads this week
Fri 19
Tue 23	f-k filtering	HAITING SUN leads this week
Fri 26	no class- Thanksgiving holiday
Tue 30	Migration	SWATI GHOSHAL leads this week

Meetings

Fri 3

Recommended Pre-requisites understanding of basic structural geology, basic stratigraphy, algebra, trigonometry, basic PC/Mac manipulation, Web navigation using freeware browser. Willingness to learn UNIX-flavored operating systems, SUnix and OmegaSPS seismic processing systems.

Course Grades: Final letter grades are calculated using the results of performance in leading weekly sessions and presenting updates of their projects and participating in discussions.  A (90-100%) , B (80-89.5%), C (60-79.5%) D (50-59.5%), F (less than 49.5%)  Graduate students taking this course will be held to a higher standard than undergraduates commensurate with their academic seniority.