本专业自1983年起招收硕士研究生。近几年来在海洋地球物理勘探与信息技术、工程地球物理与信息技术、地球物理测井与信息技术、深部地球物理与信息技术、计算地球物理、水资源与工程环境勘查、油气储层描述与开发等方向形成了自己的研究特色。著名地球物理学家李庆忠院士在本学科执教。
本学科设有海洋地球物理探测实验室、复杂油气田物探方法实验室、地球探测软件技术实验室和石油与工程技术实验室等。现有海洋高分辨率数字地震仪及重磁电等探测设备、多波束测深声纳系统、数字旁扫声纳、浅地层剖面仪、GPS定位仪等野外探测信息技术采集系统。由PC cluster集群、服务器与工作站集群等构成的高性能并行运算环境，为软件开发、信息处理与解释提供了良好的软硬件条件。
This major begins to accept master graduate admission since 1983, and has evolved unique research feature in the fields such as marine geophysical exploration and information technology, engineering geophysics and information technology, geophysical well logging and information technology, deep geophysics and information technology, computational geophysics, water resources and engineering environmental prospecting, and gas and oil reservoir description and exploration. The famous geophysicist Li Qingzhong teaches in this subject.
The subject has established marine geophysics exploration laboratory, complex oil and gas reservoir exploration technique laboratory, geophysical exploration software technique laboratory and petroleum and engineering technology laboratory, and owns the exploration acquisition system including high-resolution digital marine seismograph and gravity, magnetic and electrical exploration equipment, multi-beam sounding sonar system, digital side-scan sonar, shallow-stratum profiler, GPS and so forth. Also, the high-performance parallel computing system consisted of PC cluster, servers and workstation cluster provides excellent software and hardware for geophysical software development, data processing and interpretation.
