IHS Markit University Grant Program Donates to the Caltech Seismological Laboratory $ 248,310 in licenses for IHS Markit Kingdom Software

Geoscience students at Caltech will now have access to industry standard seismic data processing software, thanks to a $248,310 donation from IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions.  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 add-on, and Petrophysics.

The products will be used by Professor Joann Stock and PhD graduate students doing research using multichannel seismic data (SEG-Y files). They will be used for two studies: (1) analysis and interpretation of MCS data collected during Caltech class Ge211 (Marine Geophysics) south of New Zealand in 2018; and (2) results of drilling at 25 sites on IODP Expedition 385 in the Gulf of California, in fall 2019, where crossing MCS lines were previously obtained and used to choose drilling locations. For the latter project, we will use the downhole geophysical logs, shipboard petrophysical measurements on the core samples, and core-log-seismic integration to ground-truth the characterization of the seismic stratigraphy and refine the processing of the MCS data that was collected prior to drilling the holes.

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