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Seiji Nakagawa

Staff Scientist

Building 74A, Room 104

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-7894

Fax: 510-486-5686

snakagawa@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

  • Researcher ID
  • Education
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Professional Affiliations
  • Inventive Laboratory Tools and Experimental Techniques

Biography

Seiji Nakagawa is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Publications

  • Researcher ID

Research Interests

  • Geophysics and geomechanics. Mechanical properties of weakly cemented granular media.
  • Seismic wave propagation within fractured and complex geomaterials.
  • Mechanical and seismic behavior of fractures and faults.
  • Geophysical properties of methane-hydrate-bearing sediments. Geophysical properties of rocks during super-critical CO2 injection.

Education

  • Ph.D. Materials Sciences and Mineral Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1998
  • M.E. Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 1993
  • B.E. Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 1991

Experience

  • Staff Scientist, LBNL, 2019-Present
  • Research Scientist, LBNL, 2001-2019
  • Post-doctoral Researcher, LBNL, 1998-2001
  • Graduate Student Research Assistant, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), 1995-1998
  • Graduate Student Researcher, University of California at Berkeley, 1993-1995

Awards

  • Best Research Presentation Award, BES Annual Symposium on Geoscience, 2012
  • Top 25 papers, recongnized at 70th Annual meeting for Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2001
  • Neville G.W.Cook Award (Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Rock Mechanics), presented by US National Committee for Rock Mechanics, 2000
  • Outstanding Student Presentation Award in Seismology, Fall Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union, 1998
  • Jane Lewis Fellowship, 1996-1997
  • Ishizaka Scholarship, 1993-1995
  • Haraguchi Fellowship, 1991-1993

Professional Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union, Member
  • American Rock mechanics Association, Member

Inventive Laboratory Tools and Experimental Techniques

  • True-triaxial pressure vessel with X-ray Imaging capability (Nakagawa et al., 2005, Fall AGU meeting)
  • Polyaxial loading system with concurrent optical visualization and acoustic emission monitoring for hydraulic fracturing experiment (Nakagawa et al., 2015, Fall AGU meeting)
  • Shaped-core uniaxial compression test method for borehole breakout study (Nakagawa and Ewy, 2008, ARMA meeting)
  • Phased-allay compaction cell for clay anisotropy characterization (Nihei et al, 2011, Geophysics)
  • Sonic-frequency resonant bar test and apparatus for seismic measurement of short rock and sediment cores during CO2 flooding with concurrent X-ray CT scanning (Nakagawa, 2011, Rev. Sci. Instr.; Nakagawa et al. 2013, Geophysical Prospecting)
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