Jon Claerbout's Classroom
The Green Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University
This page is dedicated to the memory of my lost son (Johannes) Jos Claerbout 1974-99.
What's new? Go to my office, to SEP project.
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Free books ! Free illustrations too !
I give you (since 1994) my books free on the WWW here and now in the table below.
If you send me email with the subject Put me on your book email list I, claerbout @ stanford.edu will put your name on a (confidential) mailing list.
Book on web in html? PDF printable individual illustrations? IMAGE ESTIMATION BY EXAMPLE: Geophysical Soundings Image Construction, (with Sergey Fomel) (292 pages on 2/2012), a 7/8 finished book with many fun data sets. Still known by the acronym (GEE) of its previous title, Geophysical Estimation by Example. Go to the 2008 class web site. The F90 library. The Poster advertisement. here, mostly here,
Fomelhere BASIC EARTH IMAGING (BEI): 2010, We carry a raw 2-D seismic data set through all steps of data processing with (almost) all the computer code (F77) required. Taught annually in fall quarter. Code library here here
Fomelhere EARTH SOUNDINGS ANALYSIS: Processing versus Inversion (PVI), 1992. Signal analysis. Introduction to inversion. here here here IMAGING THE EARTH'S INTERIOR (IEI), 1985. My most widely quoted book, 300 pages, out of print, but here now! John Louie has created a magnificent Java adaptation of this class. here, mostly here,
in Russian,
in Chinese.here FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PROCESSING (FGDP) 1976. Some people say this book, my first one, is the most creative (though the most difficult). here, mostly here ,
in Russian,
in Chinese.here Five free books (GEE, BEI, PVI, IEI, FGDP) with three free components (1) web html version, (2) free printable PDF documents, (3) free illustrations. Two books have codes converted to C by Sergey Fomel. All 982 figures in all my books (since 1976!) are here. Free figures to paste in your slides, term papers, reports, and theses. Enjoy! Be careful though. I don't mind, but your teachers, colleagues, and friends, might not think well of you if they discover you have not given proper credit. You can also learn of the 32 people who helped.
Free advice for careers, for speakers, and for writers.
Free software !
- Learn about or download Ratfor 90 (improved Fortran) free from its author, Bob Clapp.
- Unpack and compile your own Ratfor77 (Rational Fortran) translator. We don't support this anymore. It is the last version we did support.
Scholarships and Fellowships !
SEP has funding (research assistantships) for all students who are admitted to the Stanford University Geophysics Department PhD program. These cover reasonable living expenses (about $2500/month) and all university fees. You need to take international exams (GRE and TOEFL) etc. Here is why and how to apply. More questions? Send email to Professor Claerbout: claerbout @ stanford.eduWould you like to hear me?
In 2011 I spoke to an audience of earthquake seismologists, telling them a little of exploration seismology and something that might help them out.