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David Lee Alumbaugh

Staff Scientist

Building 074, Room 0111

M/S 74R316C

[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
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  • Adjunct/Visiting Professorships

Biography

Raised in Southern California, David Alumbaugh’s interest in Earth science was sparked by a childhood fascination with volcanoes and earthquakes. In the late 1970’s as he was finishing high school, oil prices spiked and a local newspaper published a list of promising future careers, with ‘Geologist’ near the top. This event coupled with the childhood fascination with geological processes led David to pursue an undergraduate degree in Geological Sciences at San Diego State, where he took a keen interest in EM geophysical methods. David’s undergraduate degree was followed by graduate work in EM geophysics at UC Berkeley, and his first post-graduate job was at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he was the co-architect of one of the first 3D EM forward-modeling and inversion algorithms that made use of massively parallel computing platforms. After a four year stint as a professor in the Geological Engineering Program at the University of Wisconsin, David returned to Berkeley, California where he took a position at Schlumberger’s EMI Technology Center and his work focused on commercializing his PhD project in cross-well EM imaging as well as developing an intellectual technology portfolio for marine CSEM. Since leaving Schlumberger for Chevron, NEOS GeoSolutions, the consulting group BlueGreen Geophysics, and now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, David’s work has continued to focus on the incorporation of EM geophysical techniques into subsurface-characterization workflows, as well as advancing multi-physics data analysis, and to a lesser extent, statistically based methods of fusing multi-physics data into geologic interpretations.

Education

  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, emphasis in Geophysical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1993
  • M.S., Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, emphasis in Geophysical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1989
  • B.S., Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 1986

Experience

  • Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 2019-Present
  • Consultant and Principal, BlueGreen Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, 2018-Present
  • Principal Geoscientist and Electromagnetics Subject Matter Expert, NEOS GeoSolutions, Pleasanton, CA, 2013-2018
  • Senior Geophysical Researcher, Geophysical Modeling and Inversion R&D Group, Earth Sciences Division, Chevron Energy Technology Company, San Ramon, CA, 2011-2013
  • Discipline Manager of the Physics, Modeling and Inversion Group, Schlumberger EMI Technology Center, Berkeley, CA, 2004-2011
  • Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering Program, 1999-2005
  • Post-Doc/Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Geophysical Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, NM, 1993-1999

Awards

  • Hart Energy E&P Magazine, Meritorious Award for New Engineering Innovation (Presented to Schlumberger for The DeepLook-EM Enhanced Crosswell Reservoir Monitoring System), 2010
  • Recipient, The Gerald W. Hohmann Award for Excellence in Applied Electrical Geophysics, The Gerald W. Hohmann Memorial Trust, 1998
  • Best Student Paper Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1992
  • Outstanding Graduate, San Diego State University Geological Sciences Department, 1986

Professional Affiliations

  • Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
  • European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Adjunct/Visiting Professorships

  • Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 2018-Present
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, 2006-2014
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, 2003-2004
  • Adjunct Professor, New Mexico Tech, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, 1997-1999
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