What is SimPEG?
The SimPEG team is one of the two recipient teams for IDEA in 2015. SimPEG is a software package for research and development in geophysics, which provides a framework to carry out numerical research. The project is targeted at promoting exploration, experimentation and extension of ideas in an open-source manner. The project name SimPEG stands for Simulation and Parameter Estimation in Geophysics.
Project Goals and Successes
Goals of the project include encouraging conversations and inviting collaborations within the academic community; combining methodologies; community building; the development of a workable framework; and measurement of data and optimization. Current successes of the project include the development of common terminology; uptake within educational communities; development of the project as a learning tool; and a total of 554 downloads of the software package per month. This open source project is hosted on the social-coding platform GitHub. The project has also utilized one of the fundamentals of growth within the geophysics community, which is interconnectivity between disciplines (geology, geophysics, hydrology, engineering).
Team members Rowan Cockett, Lindsey Heagy and Seogi Kang are pleased to be recognized with this award, and look forward to the continued growth of the SimPEG framework. They would like to thank the amazing current (and future!) contributors, who are helping to make this project a community effort.