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Education

1986 B.S. Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley

1989 M.S. Applied Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley

1992 Ph.D. Geomechanics, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Experience

1987-1992 Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley

1992-1995 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

1995-1996 Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

1995-present Scientist, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Honors and Awards

Jane Lewis Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1993 Ph.D. Student Thesis Award, U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics

1996 Basic Energy Sciences Topical Symposium Award, U.S. Department of Energy

LABORATORY SERVICE (September 1, 1996 through April 30 ,1999):

1996-present Research supervisor to graduate students

1998 Hosted visiting scientist from Schlumberger-Dl

1999 Assisted undergraduates (E 140) with class project

Professional Activities

Reviewer for Geophys., J. Geophys. Res., Geophy. Res. Lett., Geophys. J. Int.

Active Member of ISRM Working Group on Seismic Wave Propagation in Fractured Rock

COURSES TAUGHT IN LAST THREE ACADEMIC YEARS:

1996 CE 173 Geogical Engineering (Units 3; Enrlment: Undergrad , 40)

Research Supervision

1998 Seiji Nakagawa , "Acoustic Resonance Characteristics of Rock and Concrete Containing Fractures"

1998 Jianli Fan, "Overlap Domain Decomposition Technique for Modeling Wave Propagation"

1998 Weidong Yi, "Numerical Investigation of Wave Propagation in Fractured Rock"

Research Support (September 1, 1996 through December 31, 1999)

Fracture Characterization in Gas Reservoirs GRI 07/97-07/00 $544,870

Effects of Micro- and Macro- Scale Interfaces DOE 05/96-05/99 $819,709

on Seismic Waves (with Myer)

Seismic Characterization of Fractured DOE 05/96-05/99 (see Myer)

Geogic Structures (with Myer)

Deformation and Fracture of Poorly DOE (see Myer) (see Myer)

Considated Media

Frequency-Dependent Seismic Attributes of DOE 04/99-04/01 $300,000

Poorly Considated Sands (with Rector)

Publications (January 1, 1996 through April 30, 1999)

1996 Gu, B., K.T. Nihei, and L.R. Myer, Fracture interface waves, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 827-835.

1996 Gu, B., K.T. Nihei, L.R. Myer, and L.J. Pyrak-Nte, Numerical simulation of elastic wave propagation in fractured rock with the boundary integral equation method, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15933-15943.

1996 Gu, B., R. Suárez-Rivera, K.T. Nihei, and L.R. Myer, Incidence of plane waves upon a fracture, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 25337-25346.

Gu, B., K.T. Nihei, and L.R. Myer, Numerical investigation of fracture interface waves, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 102(1), 120-127.

Nihei, K.T., W. Yi, L.R. Myer, and N.G.W. Cook, M. Schoenberg, Fracture channel waves, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 4769-4781.

1998 Nihei, K.T., S. Nakagawa, and D.L. Hopkins, Defect detection using the reverberant wavefield, Rev. of Prog. In Quant. Nondestruc. Eval., 18, in press.

Kurt Nihei
Scientist/Department Head

Geophysics Department

Phone: 510-486-5349
Fax: 510-486-5686
Email: ktnihei@lbl.gov