
FACULTY
| Yaoguo Li | Associate Professor, Department of Geophysics;
Principal Investigator [CGEM, GMRC, UXO & CSEM] Specialize in 3D modeling and inversion of gravity, magnetic, and electrical data as well as numerical techniques for processing and inverting large data sets. |
(303) 273-3510 |
| Richard Krahenbuhl | Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics
[CGEM, GMRC & UXO] Specializes in hybrid and global optimization methods for large scale inversions; modeling & inversion of gravity and magnetic data, and time-lapse monitoring. |
(303) 384-2329 |
| Misac Nabighian | Distinguished Senior Scientist, Department of Geophysics
[CGEM, GMRC, UXO & CSEM] Specializes in theory and application of potential field and EM methods in mineral and petroleum applications. |
(303) 273-3933 |
GRADUATE STUDENTS
| Andy
Kass |
PhD candidate, Department
of Geophysics [CGEM] |
Rachel Vest Woolf rwoolf@mines.edu |
Masters Candidate [CGEM] |
Ryan North rnorth@mines.edu |
PhD Candidate, Department of Geophysics
[UXO,CGEM] Research interests: UXO Discrimination Originally from Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Ryan enjoys basketball, biking, and reading. _____________________________________________________________________________ |
| Leon Foks nfoks@mines.edu |
PhD Candidate, Department of Geophysics
[CGEM] Research Interests: image processing and its application to geophysical interpretation and employing statistical analysis of airborne magnetic data _____________________________________________________________________________ |
Trevor Irons tirons@mines.edu |
PhD Candidate, Department of Geophysics
[CGEM & GMRC] |
| Jiajia Sun jsun@mines.edu |
Ph.D. Candidate, Research interests: time-lapse geophysics and geophysical inversion constrained by geological and other geophysical information. For his PhD comps project, he developed adaptive Lp inversion method to recover both blocky and smooth features in the subsurface. He also worked on joint inversion of surface and borehole gravity with thresholding and density constraints. He is currently working on joint inversion of multiple geophysical datasets using cross-gradient and petrophysical constraints. Received his B.Sc. in geophysics from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in June, 2008 _____________________________________________________________________________ |
Cericia Martinez cemartin@mines.edu |
Ph.D. Candidate Interned with Williams Companies doing petrophysical work for a summer and continued on to be an Exploration Intern during the school year. She also held two summer internships with Devon Energy. She is currently working with airborne gravity gradiometry applied to an iron ore deposit in Brazil. Recieved her B.S. in Geophysics from Colorado School of Mines in May 2009.______________________________________________________________________________ |
Jeff Shoffner jeff.shoffner@gmail.com |
Masters Candidate. The 2009 recipient
of the SEG Lucien LaCoste Scholarship. Currently pursuing a masters degree in geophysics while working with the US Navy Geothermal Program Office using gravity and magnetic inversion to understand basement structure and faulting in a geothermal prospect in Western Nevada. Research interests: range from mining and petroleum exploration to environmental problems, specifically using geologic background and field experience to approach geophysical problems, such as inversion techniques and interpretation mainly for gravity and magnetics, but also electrical and electromagnetic methods. ______________________________________________________________________________ |
Kathryn Jeffcoat kjeffcoa@mines.edu |
Masters Candidate [CGEM] Currently a STEP student with the USGS. Interested in and working on low field NMR. Originally from: Texas. Received a B.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M University, then studied geology at the University of Arkansas. _____________________________________________________________________________ |
Mohamed Abdulla mabdulla@mines.edu |
Masters Candidate. 2010 ExxonMobil MENA scholar. Has a background in civil engineering and is currently exploring the geophysical realm. He is now pursuing a masters degree in Geophysics. Research Interests: Broad interests in this new field: rock physics, petroleum exploration, mining and of course inversion. Currently formulating an inversion technique to aid in reservoir characterization using electromagnetic data. ______________________________________________________________________________ |
| Anya Reitz anyareitz@gmail.com |
Bachelor's in Geophysics candidate, in senior year of program Has worked with VTEM data over the summer/fall of 2010 and is interested in continuing for a Master's at CSM and studying gravity gradiometry inversion. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Brent Putman |
Bachelor's in Geophysics
candidate, in senior year of program |
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Camriel Coleman |
|
Joeseph Caprioti |
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| Jennifer Brush jbrush@mines.edu |
Bachelor's in Geophysics candidate, in sophomore year of program.
Has completed an internship with the Engineering Research and Design
Center. Has trained and completed field work with gravimeters, ground
conductivity meters, magnetometers, and nuclear magnetic resonance surveys.
Is interested in continuation with the joint Master's program. Research interests: geothermal energy, volcanology, and 4D Gravity _________________________________________________________________________________ |
ALUMNI
| Kristofer Davis | PhD;
Research interests: ASR monitoring, Gravity and Magnetic inversion
methods, TDEM, stuff _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Marco Braga | Visiting Scholar from Companhia
Vale do Rio Doce, Brazil. Research interests: Gravity Gradiometry _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Whitney Goodrich | Master of Science, 2007 |
| Barry Kirkendall | Doctor of Philosophy, 2007, |
| JeongMin Lee | Master of Science 2006 Research topics: Modeling and inversion of potential field data. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Sarah Shearer | Master of Science 2005; Thesis:
Inversion of total gradient data for magnetization in 3D. Research interests: teaching earth science, crustal studies, and plate tectonics _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| David Sinex | Master of Science 2005 Research topics: UXO Discrimination; Effect of magnetic soils on UXO magnetometer data; Depth-estimation using gravity and magnetics; Forward modeling and procession of potential-field data sets _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Qiaoluan Li | Master of Science, 2001 |
| Marc Pessel | Post-doctoral Fellow, 2001 Thesis topic: Multiscale approach using simulated annealing Research interests: Multigrid methods for very fast numerical resolution of Poisson's equation; Interpretation of sources of potentials fields with the continuous wavelet transform and extended Euler deconvolution _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Alisa Green | Master of Science, 2003 |
| Cambrey Johnston | Bachelor of Science, 2002 Research interests: Modeling and inversion of gravity gradiometry data; 3D magnetic field envelope mapping _________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Shawna Leavitt | Bachelor of Science, 2002 |
| Matt Haney | Doctor of Philosophy 2005 |
| Paul Schwering | Bachelor of Science 2005 |
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