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Dibakar Ghosal
PhD (IPG Paris)
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interest
Seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation, Integrated imaging, Downward continuation, Travel time tomography inversion, Full waveform inversion, Joint inversion of MCS and OBS data, Effective medium modeling, elastic and poroelastic finite difference modeling, poroelastic attribute analysis (AFVO), Subduction tectonics, Imaging of crustal scale structures
Office
Old Sac,
Room no-211
Department of Earth Sciences
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Labs addresses: WL 218
Specialization
Control source seismology
Education
PhD (2008–2013), in Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France.Thesis Title: Shallow subsurface morphotectonics of the offshore Northern Sumatra subduction system using high resolution marine geophysical datasets.Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Satish Singh
M.Sc. (2004–2006), in Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
B.Sc., (2001–2004), in Geology, Mathematics and Physics, Jadavpur University, India.
Current Teaching
Geophysical methods Mathematics for Earth Sciences
Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
European Association of Scientists and Engineers (EAGE)
Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Selected Publications
Ghosal D., Singh S.C, Martin J, (2014). Shallow subsurface morphotectonics of the NW Sumatra subduction system using an integrated seismic imaging technique, Geophysical Jour. Int.,198,1818-1831.
Ghosal D., Singh S.C., Chauhan A.P.S, Hananto N.D., (2012). New insights on the offshore extension of the Great Sumatran fault, NW Sumatra, from marine geophysical studies, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 13, 11, doi: 10.1029/2012GC004122.
Singh. S.C, Chauhan A.P.S, Calvert A. J., Hananto N.D., Ghosal D., Rai A.,Carton H., (2012). Seismic evidence of bending and unbending of subducting oceanic crust and the presence of mantle megathrust, Earth and Planetary science letters, 301, 166-176.
Awards & Fellowships
Society of Petroleum Geophysicists (SPG)
2014-2015 Svenska Petroleum Exploration funded postdoctoral fellow at Uppsala University
Keywords
Seismology, tomography, migration
Professional Experience
2014-2015 Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University.Project : Analysis of amplitude and frequency variation with offset on the North sea datasets
2013 –2014 Visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India
2013(Apr.-Jul.) Postdoctoral researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France
2007–2008 Research Scholar, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), India.Project : Modelling the behavior of gas hydrates in Krishna-Godavari basin, India