IHS Markit Donates to the Caltech Seismological Laboratory Nearly $322,230 in Licenses

Geoscience students at Caltech will now have access to industry standard seismic data processing software, thanks to a $322, 230 donation from IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) a world leader in critical information, analytics and expertise to forge solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide.

Caltech Seismological Laboratory professor Joann Stock has been awarded three Educational Network Licenses  for each of the following IHS Markit software products: Kingdom Geoscience Bundle, LoadPAK, VelPAK and Petrophysics.

The products will be used by Professor Stock and PhD graduate students doing research using multichannel seismic data (SEG-Y files).  They will be used for analysis and interpretation of MCS data collected in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California.  For this project, PhD student Adriana Pina is building a seismic stratigraphic model of the basin. We will use downhole geophysical logs, shipboard petrophysical measurements on the core samples, and core-log-seismic integration to ground-truth the characterization of the seismic stratigraphy that was interpreted from the MCS data prior to drilling the holes. We will expand the study area outside of the region that was drilled on IODP Expedition 385, in 2019. The products will be used in southern California: principally in Prof. Stock's lab in North Mudd at Caltech.

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