2016 Chiang Mai Electromagnetic Induction Workshop: Review and Reviewer Details Reviewer Title/topic Photo Biography
AlanChaveWoodsHoleOceanographicInstitution,USA
EstimationoftheMagnetotelluricResponseFunction:ThePathfromRobustEstimationtoaStableMLE
AlanChaveisaSeniorScientistinandLaboratoryHeadfortheDeepSubmergenceLaboratory,Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution.HereceivedaPh.D.fromtheMIT/WHOIJointPrograminOceanographyin1980,and then spent six years at Scripps InstitutionofOceanographyas aPostdoctoral,Assistantand Associate Research Geophysicist. Alan was the J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow at LosAlamosNationalLaboratoryin1985-6.HemovedtothePhysicsResearchDivisionofAT&TBellLaboratoriesat theendof1986,and then toWoodsHole in1991.HehasbeenaCharteredStatisticiansince2003.His research interests include marine magnetotellurics and controlled sourceelectromagnetics, developing new technologies to observe the ocean, developing in situchemical sensors for use in the ocean, and the application of statistics to geosciencesproblems.Heistheco-editoroftherecentbookTheMagnetotelluricMethodbyAlanChaveandAlanJones,andtheauthorofaforthcomingbookoncomputationalstatisticsintheearthsciencesfromCambridgeUniversityPress.
TakutoMinamiKyotoUniversity,Japan
RecentprogressinstudiesonEMfieldsgeneratedbyoceanicflowsincludingtsunamis:Theirpropertiesandapplications
TakutoMinamistudiedgeophysicsandelectromagnetismintheDepartmentofGeophysics,GraduateSchoolofScience,KyotoUniversity,wherehecompletedhisPh.D.inMarch2014,undersupervisionofAssoc.Prof.HiroakiToh.Thetitleofhisthesisis“Numericalsimulationofthetsunami-inducedelectromagneticfieldusingatime-domainfiniteelementmethod:applicationtothe2011TohokuEarthquaketsunami”.Aftergraduation,hespent10monthsatNASAGoddardSpaceFlightCentercollaboratingwiththegeomagneticgroupthereleadbyDr.WeijiaKuang.InApril2015,hewentbacktoJapanandstartedtostudyactiveEMmonitoringtechniquesforvolcanosinAsoVolcanologicalLaboratory,KyotoUniversity.HeissupposedtomovetoEarthquakeResearchInstitute,UniversityofTokyo,asaJSPS(JapanSocietyforPromotionofSciences)Postdoctoralfellow,inApril2016.
TakutoMinami’sresearchinterestsencompassEMvariationscausedbytsunamisandotheroceanicflows,land/marine-MT/CSEMmethods,andassociatedsimulation/modellingtechniques.Heisinterestedinthephysicsunderlyingtsunami-EMphenomena,whichisquitesimilartothatforCSEMmodellings.Herecentlydevelopedathree-dimensionalfiniteelementcodeforsimulatingtsunami-generatedEMfields.Ontheotherhand,heisnowinchargeofdevelopingCSEMmodellingtechniquesformonitoringvolcanicactivities,inKyotoUniversity.
MarionMiensopustLeibnizInstituteforAppliedGeophysics,Germany
Applicationof3DEM inversion inpractice– Challenges, pitfalls and solutionapproaches
Marion Miensopust is currently research scientist and coordinator of the multidisciplinaryjunior research group dealing with subrosion processes at the Leibniz Institute for AppliedGeophysics in Hannover (LIAG), Germany. After receiving her diploma in Geophysics at theWWUMuenster, Germany (2003), sheworked at the University of Hamburg in the area ofmarinegeophysics(2004/2005).In2010,shereceivedherPhDfromtheNationalUniversityofIreland, Galway based on research carried out at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies(DIAS), Ireland as part of the SouthernAfricanMagnetotelluric Experiment (SAMTEX). From2010 to 2012 she had her own PostDoc project at DIAS (MT and TEM at Eyjafjallajoekull,Iceland)whilegainingteachingexperienceattheWWUMuenster,Germany.Subsequentsheworked at the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) inHannover,Germany,intheareaofairbornegeophysics(2012-2014).Since2014sheisatLIAG
andengagedintheinvestigationofkarstsystemsandsubrosionstructuresusingEMmethods.Oneofherresearchinterestsistoclosethegapbetweenthenumericalaspects(i.e.,thecodewriter’sside)andtheapplicability (i.e., thecodeuser’sside)ofEMmodellingand inversion.From beginning on, she is part of the organising committee of the series of MT3DINVworkshopsbringingcodewritersanduserstogetherandapproachingthosechallenges.Besidethat shehas experiencewith a broad rangeof EMmethods (primarilyMT, TEM,HEM, ERT,GPR)andland-based,airborneandmarinework.
MaxMoorkampUniversityofLeicester,UnitedKingdom
IntegratingelectromagneticdatawithothergeophysicalobservationsforenhancedimagingoftheEarth
MaxMoorkampiscurrentlyaLecturerattheUniversityofLeicester.HereceivedaPhDfromtheNationalUniversityofIreland,Galwayin2007andthenmovedtoGeomarinKiel,Germanyforapostdocforthreeandahalfyears.Since2011heisworkingattheUniversityofLeicester.Hismainresearchinterestisthequantitivecombinationofdifferenttypesofgeophysicaldatathroughjointinversion.Inparticular,hehasworkedoncombiningelectromagneticandseismicdataforawiderangeofapplicationsfromhydrocarbonexplorationtoimagingthecrustandlithosphereofcratonicregions.HeiscurrentlyanassociateeditorforJGRSolidEarthandco-editorofthebook"IntegratedImagingoftheEarth".
JavierFulleaDublinInstituteforAdvancedStudies(DIAS),Ireland
Jointmodellingofconductivityandothergeophysicalandpetrologicalobservablestoinferthestructureofthelithosphereanduppermostmantle
JavierFulleaiscurrentlyaMarieSkłodowska-Curiepost-docFellowattheDublinInstituteforAdvancedStudies(DIAS), Ireland.HereceivedhisPhDinEarthSciencesfromtheInstituteofEarth Sciences “JaumeAlmera” (CSIC)-University ofBarcelona, Spain, in 2008. From2009 to2011hejoinedtheEMgroupintheDIASasapost-doc.AfterthathemovedtotheInstituteofGeosciences (IGEO, CSIC-UCM) in Madrid, Spain, as a JAE-DOC programme post-doctoralfellow.Hehasageneralgeophysicalbackgroundwithanemphasisoncomputationalmodelling(e.g.geo-software development and processing of geophysical data). His research interest isfocused on integrated petrological-geophysical modelling of the thermal and compositionalstructure of the lithosphere and sub-lithospheric uppermantle using awide variety of datasets. Over the last years, he has been developing, together with relevant collaborators,different forward and inversemodelling tools providing a bridge between laboratory-basedstudies (e.g., solid solutionmodels, thermodynamics,mineral physics, etc.) and geophysicalterrestrial and satellite observations/models (e.g., seismic tomography, gravimetry, satellitedata, magnetotellurics etc.). The codes have been successfully applied to study thelithospheric structure in different tectonic environments, from young Phanerozoic terranes(e.g. Atlas Mountains, Alboran basin, Central Mongolia) to old Precambrian cratons(Kaapvaal), using different data sets (e.g., topography, potential fields, surface heat flow,Rayleigh-andLove-wavephasevelocities,MTresponses).
LetianZhangChinaUniversityofGeosciences(Beijing),China
A Review of Recent Developments in theStudy of Regional Lithospheric ElectricalStructureoftheAsianContinent
LetianZhangiscurrentlyaLecturerintheSchoolofGeophysicsandInformationTechnology,ChinaUniversityofGeosciences,Beijing(CUGB).HeobtainedhisPhDfromCUGBin2013,andfinishedhispostdoctoral researchon theAltynTaghFaultbounding thenorthernmarginofthe Tibetan Plateau in the same institution from 2013 to 2015. As amember of CUGBMTgroup,hehasparticipatedMTcomponentofprojectsINDEPTHandSinoProbe,aswellasmanyotherprojectsinvestigatingdiversetectonicfeaturesovertheAsiancontinentmainlybyusingthe MT method. His major research interest lies in investigating the lithospheric electricalstructureoftheTibetanPlateaufrombothINDEPTHandSinoProbeMTdata.
StephanThielSouthAustralianGeologicalSurvey/UniversityofAdelaide,Australia
Electromagneticmonitoringofhydraulicfracking:relationshiptopermeability,seismicityandstress
StephanThielisaSeniorGeophysicistattheGeologicalSurveyofSouthAustraliaandanAffiliateLecturerattheUniversityofAdelaide.HeobtainedhisPhDfromtheUniversityofAdelaidein2008andwasaPostdoctoralFellowthereuntil2014.Hisresearchfocussesmainlyonmagnetotelluricsappliedtolithospheric-scaleimagingandgeothermalstudies.HehasappliedhisresearchfromArchaean/ProterozoicterranesinAustraliatoyoungertectonicareasinOmanandEthiopia.ThroughouthisPost-doc,hisresearchfocusedonmonitoringfluidfrackingofenhancedgeothermalsystemsinAustralia.Togetherwiththerelevantco-workers,theresearchwasrecognizedthroughtheAustralianInnovationAwardfortheMineralsandEnergycategory.StephancurrentlyworksonmappingthelithosphericarchitectureoftheGawlerCratonthroughtheAusLAMPSAarrayprogramtounravelthetectonichistoryoftheAustraliancontinentanddevelopparadigmshiftsinmineralexplorationincratonicareas.
PrasantaPatroCSIR-NationalGeophysicalResearchInstitute,India
MT studies for petroleum and geothermal resources: Examples with emphasis on Asian region
PrasantaK.PatroiscurrentlyworkingasPrincipalScientistandHeadMagnetotelluric&DeepResistivity Sounding Division in CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad,India. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 in the Department of Geophysics, OsmaniaUniversitybasedonhis researchonmagnetotelluric studyof crustal geoelectric structure inwestern India in relation to seismotectonics of the Deccan Trap region. He has heldpostdoctoral positions at Free University, Berlin; Oregon State University, USA; EarthquakeResearch Institute, Tokoy, Japan. He is the recipient of Krishnan Gold Medal from IndianGeophysicalUnion.Dr. Patro’s research interest focus on landmagnetotellurics for resource (both hydrocarbonandgeothermal)explorationandregionaltectonicstudies.Hisrecentstudiesprovidedinsightsinto understanding subsurface electrical structure in several key areas including HimalayanCollision zone, Deccan Volcanic Province (for hydrocarbon and Tectonic studies), SouthernGranuliteTerrainandseveralgeothermalareas.Dr.Patroisalsoassociatedwithdevelopmentof new modeling and interpretation techniques. Besides these, his currently engaged inseveral research projects including investigation of possible plumbing geometry of DeccanVolcanic eruptions in the Narmada Son Lineament of Central India using 3D MT modelingstudies, identificationofZonesof interest fordrilling in theTatapanigeothermalareabasedonhis3Dsub-surfacemodels,MTstudiesofKoynaseismiczonefortheongoingdeepdrillingexperimentalproject.
