Dhananjay Kumar Telephone: (512) 4710321 email: kumar Graduate student seeking a PhD Career goal: Geophysicist

Current Education:

Ph.D. Geophysics		The University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation:		"Analysis of multicomponent seismic data from the Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon"
Supervisors:		Dr. Mrinal Sen and Dr. Paul Stoffa

Prior Education:

MS, Exploration Geophysics		Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2000
Thesis:		"Three-dimensional forward modeling and inversion of magnetotellurics data"

Current UTIG Research Project: Seismic data analysis: Gas Hydrate (NSF Project)
Advisor: Dr. Mrinal K. Sen

Awards:
ConocoPhillips Fellowship - Spring 2004 & Fall 2004
David Bruton, Jr. Fellowship, 2003-2004, The University of Texas at Austin
Research Assistantship
Ewing Worzel Fellowship (UTIG) - Fall 2001 & Spring 2002

Professional Society Memberships:
SEG, SPG, EAGE, AGU

Research Interests:
Seismic data processing, Modeling, and Imaging

UTIG Field Experience:
Offshore Oregon (R/V Maurice Ewing), The Hydrate Ridge, August 2002

Publications
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, pp. 55-69.

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