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Welcome to CWP
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The Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) is an interdisciplinary research and graduate education program in seismic exploration, monitoring and wave propagation. The focus of the program is on seismic modeling, imaging and inversion methods, as well as on improving the accuracy and efficiency of seismic processing algorithms, especially for application to regions of structural complexity.
CWP faculty have a broad range of research interests and thrive on solving problems of practical interest to the exploration industry. Over the years, our research directions have expanded to reflect the talents of our faculty and students, as well as to meet the needs and interests of our consortium sponsors. CWP faculty are: Professors Dave Hale (CWP Director), Paul Sava, Roel Snieder and Ilya Tsvankin. University Emeritus Professors and past CWP Directors Norm Bleistein and Ken Larner continue to work closely with CWP.
Our Sponsors
Part of CWP is the Consortium Project on Seismic Inverse Methods for Complex Structures ("consortium,") an international group of industry sponsors. We are associated with the Department of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines, a public research university dedicated to engineering and applied sciences. CWP received additional support since June 2010 from the Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi, the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, ENI, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhilipps, Hess, Statoil, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Our Mission
The Center is strongly committed to quality graduate education in geophysics. CWP graduate students form an international group with a large range of study and research interests. Their backgrounds are primarily in earth sciences, applied mathematics, computer science and physics. CWP graduates are recruited for employment by industry, government or academia following the completion of their degrees from the Colorado School of Mines.
The Center's objectives are:
• academically current research relevant to our consortium sponsors
• excellence in all aspects of research
• talented graduate students and visiting scholars from around the world
• diversity of research directions and cultural backgrounds
• growth, creativity and independence through a nurturing and caring atmosphere