To join this Focus Group, log
into the AGU through their
update
member record link. Under the "Membership Record" select
"Near Surface Geophysics" as your primary or "other"
affiliation under the "Areas of Scientific Interest"
section.
The Purpose of the Near-Surface
Geophysics Focus Group
NS
was created to provide a home for those people who describe
themselves as near-surface geophysicists: studying and
advancing the use of geophysics for near-surface
applications. The formation of NS thus addresses two needs:
1) fosters communication within the NS geophysics community,
the primary goal being to advance the science of NS
geophysics as an end it itself; 2) promotes the awareness of
NS in other fields and advances the use of NS where the
primary science goals/questions are in other areas of
science. Near-surface applications addressed by NS
researchers include, but are not limited to, studies in
archaeology, biogeochemistry, coastal processes and climate
change, ecology, hydrology, tectonics, volcanology. A full
description of the focus group is given in the following
article in EOS: Slater, L., Knight, R., Singha, K., Binley,
A., and Atekwana, E., Near-Surface Geophysics: A New Focus
Group, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(25), 249, 2006.
