Education is the driver here. Students are housed at the College of Santa Fe and use classrooms at the college for data analysis, report writing and classroom presentations. Research results derived from the SAGE work are published in peer-reviewed literature, typically with the students as coauthors. Now in its 18th year, more than 450 students have participated in SAGE since it started in 1983. Baldridge has co-directed SAGE with George Jiracek of the Department of Geological Sciences at San Diego State University for 13 years.
Students work on weekends and evenings.
Baldridge also said industry has supported SAGE and uses the program as a recruiting tool for future geophysicists. When the SAGE field experiments are completed, students will spend long hours at computers processing and interpreting data and writing reports. And Baldridge said that in January, many of the SAGE students go to San Diego State University to continue work begun in New Mexico. Click here to go to the SAGE program World Wide Web site . Sandoval Baldridge receives award for SAGE program from society of Exploration Geophysicists Scott Baldridge, co-director of the Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience at the Laboratory, has received an award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.