Environmental Geophysics - Breaking The Cost Barrier

The number of environmental site assessmentsc onducted in North America has grown rapidly<br>over the past decade. This growth is expected to continue, driven by tighter environmental<br>regulations in almost all jurisdictions and concerns about environmental liability. However, the<br>use of non-invasive, geophysical techniques for environmental work has not kept pace with this<br>growth generally. We find this relative reluctance to use geophysics for environmental<br>investigation curious, particularly since it would appear that there is a need for the kind of rapid,<br>non-invasive information that geophysics has been providing steadily to the explorationist for<br>several decades (Barinaga, 1990; Won, 1990).