OpenEM.org is a community resource for electromagnetic geophysics. The OpenEM virtual institute as it develops will include several continuously evolving core resources:

• a repository for community-supported open source software for EM data analysis, forward and inverse modeling and interpretation
• links to data management centers with extensive collections of unrestricted EM data sets and derived data products
• tools for requesting access to shared EM instruments both through the National Geoelectromagnetic Facility and through a clearinghouse for PI-maintained instruments that may be available for loan
• a community forum for free exchange of technical information
• Support for special interest groups (SIGs) within EM geophysics
• collaborative workgroup tools to promote multi-institutional experiment planning and execution
• hosted “webinars” on EM geophysics, to serve as a national “departmental” monthly seminar series
• academic-industry showcase of EM geophysics products and services

EM geophysics job postings, studentships, postdoctoral opportunities OpenEM is open to everyone. While it is designed primarily to serve the interests of US-based EM geophysicists, there are no restrictions on access by any individual or group no matter their geographic location. OpenEM is dedicated to free exchange of information, to establishing and promoting open standards for software interoperability, data exchange, and model definition. Our goal is to make EM geophysics accessible as widely as possible; to take it out of the specialist laboratory and into the field. The OpenEM virtual institute spans the full range of terrestrial, airborne and marine EM geophysics, including DC resistivity, induced polarization methods, passive and controlled source EM, transient/time domain EM, magnetotellurics including CSAMT, AMT and RFMT, and geomagnetic depth sounding and related methods.