Welcome to Small County!

The Small County project provides students with interactive instruction in the geological aspects of petroleum reservoir characterization employing a virtual subsurface closely reflecting the geological characteristics of the US mid-continent, in the fictional setting of Small County, Kansas. The project has been developed by the Kansas Geological Survey with support from the National Science Foundation.

Project Personnel:

• Geoff Bohling, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas (PI)
• John Doveton, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas (Co-PI)
• Bryan Banz, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas (Research Assistant)
• Cinzia Cervato, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University (External Evaluator)

The Small County exercise builds on some of the ideas employed in the Oz Machine, an interactive exercise in the geological interpretation of geophysical well logs.

Developed by the Kansas Geological Survey with support from the National Science Foundation Page updated January 19, 2010 URL="http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hydro/SmallCounty/index.html" Comments or suggestions to webadmin@kgs.ku.edu