MREC Conference Presentations
Full Session Description
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Title: Earth Current Research Update
Summary: (see handout)
Speaker 1: David Alumbaugh
Title: Assistant Professor in Geological Engineering Program
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept.
Address: 2258 Engineering Hall; 1415 Engineering Drive; Madison, WI 53705
Telephone: 608.262.3835
E-mail: alumbaugh@engr.wisc.edu
Web site: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cee/
About the Speaker:
Dr. Alumbaugh is an Assistant Professor in Geological Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his BS degree in Geological Sciences from San Diego State University in 1986, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Geophysical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and 1993, respectively. After finishing the PhD, he joined the Geophysical Technology Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM as a post-doctoral researcher, and was promoted to a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in 1996. Dr. Alumbaugh’s interests have been focused on the use of electromagnetic geophysical methods for imaging the Earth’s subsurface, with applications in environmental assessment and waste site characterization, hydrological studies, and natural resource exploration and characterization. He has been involved in all facets of the geophysical imaging problem including data acquisition and interpretation, as well as theoretical development of computer algorithms to assist in data processing and interpretation
Speaker 1: Louise Pellerin
Title: Research Scientist in Geological Engineering
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept.
Address: 2215 Curtis Street; Berkeley, CA 94702
Telephone: 510.704.1566
E-mail: pellerin01@aol.com
Web site: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cee/
About the Speaker:
Dr. Pellerin is
currently a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She
received her BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her MS
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Utah - all in geophysics. She has over
24 years experience in exploration geophysics, including positions as a research
geophysicist with the US Geological Survey and a visiting professor at the
University of Aarhus, Denmark. Working on a variety of challenging problems, she
was the principle investigator on several large projects to develop innovative
techniques for use in environmental applications. Dr. Pellerin is proficient in
the field deployment and interpretation of most electromagnetic techniques and
has extensive knowledge of the magnetotelluric method having used it on crustal
studies and geothermal problems in both field and theoretical studies.