Center for Wave Phenomena

cwpinfo@mines.edu

East Classroom Building
901 17th St.
Golden, CO 80401

The CWP Fall 2025 cohort poses for a photo on the staircase of the ECB.

The Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) advances the science of wave propagation through innovative research in seismic imaging, inversion, and monitoring. We unite mathematical rigor, computational excellence, and real-world geoscience to develop next-generation technologies in exploration, subsurface imaging, and wave physics. Through collaboration with industry, government, and academia, we empower a diverse community of researchers to pursue cutting-edge solutions to complex Earth and engineered-system challenges. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Research published

Dr. Ilya Tsvankin, former CWP student Yanhua Liu (now at Shell), and their collaborators from INPEX have published a synthetic study for offshore seismic data that analyzes the potential of two types of optical fibers used in distributed acoustic...

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Congrats on Thesis Defense

CWP is pleased to congratulate Derrick Chambers and Tomas Snyder for successfully completing their thesis defenses. Chambers completed his PhD in Geophysics with the defense of "Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Coal Bursts in Longwall Mines."...

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