Students

CWP Graduate Research Assistants

(Listed alphabetically by last name)

Samuel is researching how to collect full coverage seismic data from asteroids and small planetary bodies with a laser doppler vibrometer. His work could one day provide planetary scientists with much needed information on the internal structures of asteroids, which can validate or discredit solar system formation hypotheses. Samuel’s project is funded by NASA.

Alex’s passion lies in making frontier seismic methods (processing, imaging, and inversion) applicable for practical energy exploration and production. His research focus is to implement Marchenko imaging to 3D and field data, and to explore the geophysical applications of the Marchenko framework.

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Mert is interested in seismic imaging studies. His desire is to come up with novel approaches to exploration problems.

Thomas is currently exploring alternatives for acquiring land seismic data without touching the ground surface. The specific focus of his current research is on the feasibility of using stereo vision and so-called video motion magnification for deducing subtle ground motion from video.

Patipan’s research interests are microseismisity and seismic interferometry. He is currently working on the applications of the virtual seismic method (VSM) to obtain wave responses (Green’s function) and to hopefully obtain geo-mechanical properties within different source scenarios (e.g., subduction earthquakes and micro-earthquakes induced by fluid injections).

Sagar is currently working on Full Waveform Inversion(FWI) for Reservoir Characterization with the idea to constraint FWI work-flow using rock physics relationship with elastic properties to provide very high resolution image in depth domain. He is currently working with Elastic VTI model and will extend it to an elastic orthorhomic model in future. He also intends to do targeted reservoir parameter inversion using local solvers in time domain.