Peter Morse Roberts

Curriculum Vitae

Earth and Environmental Sciences Division,
GeoEngineering Group EES-4, Mail Stop D443,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM 87545
phone: 505-667-1199
FAX: 505-667-8487
email: proberts@lanl.gov

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D. in Geophysics, 6/89
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
    Cambridge, Massachussetts

  • B.S. in Biology, 6/79
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
    Cambridge, Massachussetts
    • MEMBERSHIPS:

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Seismological Society of America
    • POSITIONS HELD:

  • 6/97--present: Technical Staff Member
    Earth and Environmental Sciences Division,
    GeoEngineering Group, EES-4,
    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • 8/96--6/97: Project Geophysicist
    Nambe Geophysical, Inc., contractor to:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences Division,
    GeoEngineering Group, EES-4,
    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • 4/92--8/96: Senior Geophysicist
    Nambe Geophysical, Inc., contractor to:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences Division,
    GeoEngineering Group, EES-4,
    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • 4/89--4/92: Postdoctoral Fellow
    Earth and Environmental Sciences Division,
    GeoEngineering Group, EES-4,
    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • 7/85--3/89: Graduate Research Fellow
    Dept. of Geological Sciences,
    University of Southern California

  • 9/82--6/85: Graduate Research Assistant
    Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • 6/79--8/82: Staff Technical Assistant
    Seismic Instrumentation Laboratory,
    Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

  • stress-wave stimulation of oil production and groundwater remediation
  • ultrasonic cleaning of damaged oil wells
  • seismic and ultrasonic data processing and analysis
  • teleseismic and exploration imaging
  • seismic waveform modeling and inversion methods
  • earthquake, volcanic and borehole seismology
  • seismic instrumentation and field data collection
  • parallel programming on MPP computers
  • acoustic cavitation and micro-streaming in rocks
  • ultrasonic measurement of physical properties in solids
  • automated laboratory instrumentation control and data acquisition