People at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

People at UTIG

Technical Support at UTIG

UTIG is internationally recognized for its support staff, which includes engineers, systems analysts, technicians, and administrative personnel. General computing questions (e.g., computer account requests, computer problems, etc.) should be directed to gripe.

Check here for office locations. All e-mails are @ig.utexas.edu.


Name E-mail Areas of Expertise
Davis, Marcy marcy field technical support, multibeam data processing using Caris, cartography and visualization using GMT, Fledermaus, ArcGIS; Illustration and graphic design with Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop;Web page design and maintenance.
Duncan, Dan dduncan field technical support; geochemistry; collection and processing of soil and water samples for naturally occurring radioisotopes, trace metals and total suspended matter; maintain radiochemical instrumentation for prepared sample analyses.
Gahagan, Lisa lisa plate reconstructions; map production (for figures, etc.) including adding data to maps; database design; some manipulation of SEG-Y data files; web page coding (html and php coding); teaching digitizing / introduction to GMT to students
Ganey-Curry, Patricia patty project management for major industry funded research projects, organize and participate in school wide exhibit and alumni activities at national and international professional meetings; promote the branding of the school; data management; sponsored project development; outreach and public information
Gerboc, John johng computer hardware/software installation; computer/peripheral repair; experience with UTIG OBS; Labview instrument programming; experience with various instrumentation; C, Borne, sed, Awk, Pearl, windows programming; field experience including instrumentation setup & maintenance
Gutowski, Gail gailg
Hess, Thomas hess
Johnson, Kevin kevin system / web / database administration; computer, hardware, software installation / repair; programming (c, fortran, php, perl); application support; network troubleshooting; field experience
Kempf, Scott scottk computer assistance for airborne geophysics; data management (acquisition, processing, presentation, distribution, archiving); carrier phase GPS processing, synthetic aperture radar, LIDAR, magnetic and gravity surveying; proficient with Gipsy/OASIS, K&RS, Matlab, C, csh, Linux, Solaris, Windows, GMT, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Word; working knowledge of Java, C++, Perl, Python, SQL, and Geosoft's Oasis montaj.
Mironov, Anatoly amironov equipment development, upgrading, testing, repairing, etc. and technical support in the field from Pole to Pole.
Ng, Greg ngg
Richter, Thomas tomr
Sanford, Jason jsanford  
Saustrup, Steffen steffen seismic data acquisition and processing; Focus and SIOSEIS processing and oversight; set-up and maintenance of Geoframe interpretation projects; field technical support; installation and operation of UTIG hi-res seismic system; Focus, Geoframe, SIOSEIS, GMT, Fortran, csh, Solaris.
Wiederspahn, Mark markw navigation, code optimization, digital formats; Fortran, C, scripting