Student Computer Lab

The Department of Geological Sciences Computing Lab was dedicated on December, 1993. In the ten years that we have served the students, faculty, and staff of the SDSU Department of Geological Sciences, we have undergone many changes and upgrades. We currently have approximately thirty workstations and support a variety of platforms, including PC/Windows2000/XP, G4/MacOS X, Sun/Solaris, SGI/IRIX. We also are able to provide a variety of software applications and output options.
All of our computers are tightly integrated and networked to allow electronic mail, file sharing, and sharing of peripherals (printers and tape drives). This allows the user to utilize any one of the workstations and access much of the same data, whether local or remote (over the Internet), without the restriction of which individual workstation or even which platform! Software is available for many disciplines, including remote sensing and image processing, visualization, computer animation, computer modeling, seismology, hydrogeology, magnetotellurics, atmospheric science, structural geology, geochemistry, neotectonics and environmental science. Software for word processing, spreadsheet analysis, drafting/drawing, electronic mail, and statistics is also available.
This computer lab is being used by our department's students, faculty and staff for teaching, student theses, classwork and research. It is also used for special shortcourses and symposiums.
The Departmental Computer Lab is available for students (graduate and undergraduate) majoring in the geological sciences and for faculty and staff of the Department of Geological Sciences at SDSU. Other use is by special arrangement.

For more information please contact Rob Mellors (rmellors@geology.sdsu.edu).