Faculty and Staff
Bio
Ali received a B.Sc. degree from Istanbul University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Engineering Geosciences. His work during this period ranged from deconvolution of seismic data, to full-waveform seismic modeling of vertical seismic profiling (VSP) data, to fracture detection from cross-well reflection/diffraction tomography in anisotropic media at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has taught graduate level courses at the University of Texas, Dallas, Mathematical Sciences Department, and Istanbul Technical University, Geophysics Department. He was a visiting scientist at Karlsruhe University, Germany, where he worked on comparing theoretical aspects of Kirchhoff versus Born modeling and migration. Ali has mentored many Ph.D. interns at ConocoPhillips and Chevron and lead an industrial consortium on time-lapse seismic while at 4th Wave Imaging.
Ali is active within the SEG. He served as SEG Vice-president, Vice-chairman and Chairman of the SEG Global Affairs Committee, and Chairman of the SEG Research Committee. He has been a member and Chairman of the editorial board of The Leading Edge and Associate Editor of Geophysics. He has also been a board member of SEG Global Inc. and Co-chairman of OTC Technical Committee.
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Dr. Ge Jin is Assistant Professor of Geophysics and Co-director of the Reservoir Characterization Project. He is interested in Fiber-Optic Sensing (FOS) and machine-learning applications in the oil industry, as well as seismic imaging and interpretation. He obtained his Ph.D. in Geophysics from Columbia University and dual B.S. in Geophysics and Computer Science from Peking University.
From 2014-2019, Dr. Jin worked at ConocoPhillips as a research geophysicist. There he was involved in many cross-functional research projects and made a major breakthrough by discovering the rich information hidden in the extra-low frequency band of the DAS signal. He also developed a series of algorithms that utilize FOS data for production logging, hydraulic fracture detection, well production interference evaluation, and microseismic monitoring. In addition to FOS research, he has developed several workflows that use ground roll energy to image near-surface structures, which have been applied on land seismic data from multiple fields. He has worked on several 4D seismic processing and interpretation projects, including time-shift estimation improvement, rock-physics modeling, and machine-learning-based 4-D interpretation.
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Melinda is an alumnus of Colorado School of Mines having received her B.S. in Geophysical Engineering and returns as Research Faculty in support of the Reservoir Characterization Project. During her 17-year career as an oil and gas Senior Exploration Geophysicist, she worked for ARCO Oil & Gas Co., California San Juan Basin Exploration; Vastar Resources, Inc., New Ventures Exploration; and Tom Brown, Inc., Rocky Mountains Exploration.
- Recipient Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics – Cecil H. Green Award
- Recipient President George Bush Daily Point of Light Program – 990th Daily Point of Light
- Member SEG, AAPG, DGS
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Larry maintains and supervises RCP’s computer hardware, software and data inventories. Prior to joining Colorado School of Mines in April 2017, Larry was a senior geophysical analyst at FairfieldNodal. With 18 years of experience in information technology (IT) and software development, Larry’s IT experience includes database applications, computer systems administration, Internet security, network administration, computer telephony, and hardware engineering. He also has 22 years of professional geophysical experience in the petroleum and environmental industries. Larry holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Nebraska. Larry is a past President and an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Denver Geophysical Society. He is a registered Professional Geologist in Wyoming.
Bio
Education
BS, MS, and PhD in Geophysics, Peking University
Joint PhD program at IsTerre, Grenoble, France
Research Interests
- Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)
- Geomechanics
- Hydraulic fracture characterization
- Geothermal energy
- Smart transportation and urban environment monitoring
- Earthquake cycle and triggering
Bio
Six years experience as field engineer, microseismic-based fracture imaging using distributed acoustic sensing measurement
BS in Chemical Engineering, National University of Engineering, Peru
MS in GP and PE, Texas A&M
PhD in GP, University of Lausanne