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Donald W. Vasco

Hydrogeophysicist

Senior Scientist

Building 074, Room 0204

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-5206

Fax: 510-486-5686

dwvasco@lbl.gov

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Biography

Don W. Vasco received his B.S. in geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987. In 1987 he worked at Berkeley Lab on the inversion of surface deformation to image volume change in the subsurface. For two years (1987-1989) he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Phillips Geophysics Laboratory, working on the inversion of airborne gravity gradiometry observations. During the years 1991-1992 he was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. In 2000 he received the Cedric K. Ferguson award by the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is currently a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Laboratory developing and implementing algorithms for geophysical and hydrologic modeling and inversion. Current research interests are inverse theory, asymptotic techniques for modeling flow and transport, modeling coupled processes, the analysis of surface deformation, and techniques for imaging reservoir heterogeneity.

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Research Interests

Geophysical inversion and non-linear inverse problems; Seismic tomographic imaging; Use of geodetic observations to constrain subsurface fluid flow; Waveform inversion; Analysis and modeling of hydrological pressure, tracer, and multi-phase flow data; Combined inversion of geophysical and hydrological data.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987, Dissertation: Inversion of Static Displacement of the Earth’s Surface
  • B.Sc., University of Texas at Austin, 1981

Experience

  • Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), 2011-Present
  • Staff Scientist, LBNL, 1992-2011
  • Visiting Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, 1991-1992
  • Post-Doctoral Scientist, Seismographic Station, University of California at Berkeley, 1989-1991
  • Post-Doctoral Scientist, (AFGL Scholar Program), Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, 1987-1989
  • Associate Research Scientist, LBNL, 1986-1987
  • Research Assistant, Seismographic Station, University of California at Berkeley, 1985-1986
  • Teaching Assistant, University of California at Berkeley, 1984-1985
  • Research Assistant, Center for Computational Seismology, LBNL, 1983-1984
  • Research Assistant, Seismographic Station, University of California at Berkeley, 1981-1983
  • Research Assistant, University of Texas Marine Geophysical Institute at Galveston, University of Texas, 1980

Awards

  • Award for Outstanding Contributions in Geoscience Research, given at the Geosciences Research Symposium on Basic Research Relevant to CO2 Sequestration, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2008
  • Cedric K. Ferguson Certificate, for the best peer reviewed paper published by an SPE journal, 1999
  • University of California Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 1981-1982

Professional Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Laboratory Services

  • LBNL Awards committee, 2013-Present
  • Library Committee, 1998-1999
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