Overview of Geophysics and Spatial Information College of China Geo University (Wuhan)

The School of Geophysics and Spatial Information of China Geo University (Wuhan) was formerly the Geophysical Exploration Department of Beijing Geo University, which was one of the earliest four departments in the early days of its establishment. 1952 invited Professor Fu Chengyi, an internationally renowned geophysicist (1957 was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences) to take charge of the preparatory work. 1953 In April, the first geophysical exploration department and geophysical teaching and research section in China were formally established, with Professor Xue as the head of the department, and Professor Tan Chengze as the director and deputy director respectively.

1952 began to train the first batch of undergraduates. Famous geophysicists in China, Qin Xinling, Weng, Zeng, Gu and Liu Guangding have taught here successively. Postgraduates began to be trained in the 1950s. Gurvich, Kvyatkovski, Novikov and other experts from the former Soviet Union have worked in our department for more than two years, and participated in the teaching of undergraduate and graduate students and the construction of teaching links. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of the first generation geophysicists trained in China graduated from here.

1975, the school moved to Wuhan and became the Geophysical Exploration Department of Wuhan Institute of Geology. 1987 was renamed the Department of Applied Geophysics of China Geo University (Wuhan), 1999, and in May 2003 it was renamed the College of Geophysics and Spatial Information.

1975 after moving to Wuhan with the school, after 25 years of development, it now has four majors: applied geophysics, solid geophysics, measurement and control technology and instruments, and information and computing science, spanning four first-class disciplines; 5 doctoral programs in Earth exploration and information technology, environment and engineering geophysics, solid geophysics, geophysical engineering and geo-information engineering, and post-doctoral mobile stations in geo-engineering; Six master's programs are solid geophysics, earth exploration and information technology, geophysical engineering, environment and engineering geophysics, detection technology and automation device, and geo-information engineering. And has a provincial "open research laboratory of engineering geophysics". The College of Geophysics and Spatial Information has 64 faculty members, including external academicians 1 person, 7 doctoral supervisors, full-time senior teachers 16, and deputy senior teachers1person. Most of the young teachers have doctoral degrees, and many teachers have been sent abroad for further study or visit, with a well-structured high-level teaching and research team. The key disciplines are environmental and engineering geophysics, resource exploration geophysics and software and hardware technologies related to information.

College of Geophysics and Spatial Information is the key construction unit of "2 1 1 project" of China Geo University. Great progress has been made in discipline and laboratory construction, teaching staff, school scale, school mode, talent training quality, scientific research and international exchanges and cooperation. After several generations' efforts, it has gradually formed a discipline system mainly focusing on environmental and engineering geophysics, resources and energy exploration geophysics, ocean and deep geophysics, measurement and control technology and information technology. The Department of Geophysics has condensed a group of high-level talents and a team of teachers with rich teaching and scientific research experience. It has provincial and ministerial key disciplines and key laboratories, and each professional laboratory is equipped with advanced large-scale modern instruments and equipment. It has become the most important base for talent training, scientific research and technical service in the field of geophysics in China, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad. The American Association of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) wrote an article in the international authoritative journal Geophysics, praising the Department of Geophysics of China Geo University as the talent education center of "Electrical Electromagnetic Exploration" in China. Today's Institute of Geophysics and Spatial Information has become the cradle of cultivating talents in geophysics, exploration technology and geospatial information technology in the 2 1 century, which has an important influence at home and abroad.