Dhananjay Kumar

Education:

PhD, Geophysics, 2005		The University of Texas at Austin (Institute for Geophysics)
Dissertation:		Analysis of multicomponent seismic data from the Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon
MS, Expl. Geophysics, 2000		Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Dissertation:		Three-dimensional forward modeling and inversion of magnetotellurics data

Work Experience:
Chevron, since March 2005
BP, May 2003 - August 2003, Geophysicist, EPTZ, Seismic Advanced Imaging, Houston
Reliance, June 2000 - August 2001, Geophysicist, Oil and Gas Division, Mumbai

Teaching Experience:
1. During Geophysical conference:
Pre- and post-conference short courses: 1) Seismic modeling, with Subhashis Mallick and Luca Duranti, 2) Seismic inversion, with Mrinal Sen, and partly 3)Seismic inversion/net pay estimation, with Raghu Chunduru, during SPG-2008, Hyderabad, India
2. University of california at Berkeley:
Taught one day (Nov 21, 2008) class on "Introduction to seismic exploration and time-lapse seismic: for Prof. Jamie Rector's Applied Geophysics class (CE 178), Civil & Environmental Engineering department, UC Berkeley

Awards:
Outstanding Student Award (Seismology section), AGU-2004, San Francisco

Professional Society Affiliations:
     President (2008-2010), SPG North America Chapter
     Memberships: SEG, EAGE, AGU, AAPG, SPG (India)
     Life time membership: Bihar Brains Development Society

Research Interests:
AVO, Unconventional Hydrocarbon, Gas Hydrates
Reservoir characterization, Seismic data processing, Modeling and Inversion

Publications:

Kumar, D., Sen, M. K., and Bangs, N. L., 2007, Gas hydrate concentration and characteristics within Hydrate Ridge inferred from multicomponent seismic reflection data: J. Geophys. Res., 112, B12306, doi: 10.1029/2007JB004993.

Kumar, D., Sen, M. K., and Bangs, N. L., 2006, Seismic characteristics of gas hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon: The Leading Edge, Vol. 25, 610-614, 2006

Kumar, D., Sen, M. K., Bangs, N. L., Wang, C., and Pecher, I., 2006, Seismic anisotropy at Hydrate Ridge: Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L01306, doi:10.1029/2005GL023945.

Kumar, D., Bastia, R., and Guha, D., 2004, Prospect hunting beow Deccan basalt: imaging challenges and solutions: First Break, 22, 35-39.

Kumar, D., Sen, M. K., and Ferguson, R. J., 2004, Traveltime calculation and prestack depth migration in tilted transversely isotropic media: Geophysics, 69, 37-44.

Roy, K. K., Kumar, D., and Biswas, S., 2002, Some Quantitative Aids for Magnetotelluric Data Interpretation: J. Ind. Geophys. Union, vol.6, no.2, 55-69.

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