CGEM people Andy Kass

M. Andy Kass

Contact Information:

Mason Andrew "Andy" Kass

Department of Geophysics
Colorado School of Mines
1500 Illinois St.
Golden, Colorado 80401, USA

Phone: (303) 273-3442
Fax: (303) 273-3478
Email: mkass@mines.edu

Research Interests:

Potential and electromagnetic fields in geophysics
Statistical de-noising methods and associated inversion
Numerical modelling
Generalized inversion of statistically rotated data
Rapid gravity gradient/gravity terrain correction and forward modelling.
Building a test grid for electrical, magnetic, electromagnetic, and shallow seismic methods
Arkansas Valley Hydrologic Study

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Publications / Proceedings:

Kass, M.A., and Li, Y., 2008, Practical aspects of terrain correction in airborne gravity gradiometry surveys, Exploration Geophysics,, 39, No. 4, pp 198-203.
Kass, M.A., Lee, J., and Li, Y., 2008, Effect of low-pass acquisition filters on processing and inversion of airborne gravity gradiometry data: Presented at the gravity in motion workshop at the 78th annual SEG International meeting.
Davis, K., Kass, M.A., Krahenbuhl, R., and Y. Li, 2008, Survey design and model appraisal based on resolution analysis for 4D gravity monitoring, 78th SEG International Meeting, Expanded Abstracts 27.
Kass, M.A., and Y. Li, 2007, Use of principal component analysis in the de-noising and signal separation of transient electromagnetic data: Presented at the 3rd international conference on environmental and engineering geophysics (ICEEG), Wuhan, China.
Kass, M.A., and Li, Y., 2007, Efficient terrain correction in airborne and seaborne gravity gradiometry surveys, ASEG 2007, Perth, WA, Australia.
Kass, M.A., and Li, Y., 2007, Practical aspects of terrain correction in airborne gravity gradiometry: 77th SEG International Meeting, Expanded Abstracts 26, pp 755-759.
Kass, M.A., 2006, Geophysical assessment of basement geometry in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, Colorado: Upper Arkansas Geologists Association 2006 Meeting, Buena Vista, CO.
Kass, M.A., Li, Y., Batzle, M., and Young, T.K., 2006, Geophysical assessment of groundwater resources in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, Colorado, Proceedings of the 2006 SEG Hydrogeophysics Workshop, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Kass, M.A., 2005, Slope Stability Analysis of Iliamna Volcano, Alaska, Using ASTER TIR, SRTM DEM, and Aeromagnetic Data, SAGEEP 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, 883-891.