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
         ETC, San Ramon, RPFS-RM, Geophysicist, March 2005-Aug 2007
         ETC, San Ramon, SAPE, Research Geophysicist, since Sept 2007
BP, May 2003 - August 2003, Geophysicist, EPTZ, Seismic Advanced Imaging, Houston
Reliance, June 2000 - August 2001, Geophysicist, Oil and Gas Division, Mumbai

Teaching Experience:
Teaching 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

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

Professional Society Memberships:
SEG, EAGE, AGU, SPG (India)

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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