Seiji Nakagawa is a Staff Scientist, Energy Geoscience Division, LBNL.

Education

1991 B.E. Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

1993 M.E. Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

1998 Ph.D. Materials Sciences and Mineral Engineering, University of California at Berkeley


Research and Professional Experience

2019-present Staff Scientist, Energy Geosciences Division, EERA, LBNL

2001-2019 Research Scientist, Energy Geosciences Division, EERA, LBNL

1998-2001 Postdoctoral Researcher, LBNL

1995-1998 Graduate Student Research Assistant, LBNL

1993-1995 Graduate Student Researcher, UC-Berkeley


Awards and Fellowships

2012 Award for outstanding contributions to basic research in the geosciences, BES Geosciences Research Program

2001 Top 25 papers, 70th Annual meeting for Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Calgary.

2000 Neville G.W.Cook Award (Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Rock Mechanics), US National Committee for Rock Mechanics

1998 Outstanding Student Presentation Award in Seismology, Fall Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union

1996-1997 Jane Lewis Fellowship

1993-1995 Ishizaka Scholarship

1991-1993 Haraguchi Fellowship

Publications

5 publications most closely related to the proposed project:

Nakagawa, S., S.R. Pride, and K.T. Nihei (2019) Interaction of a normally-incident plane wave with a nonlinear poroelastic fracture. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(3), 1705-1720. Link

Li, Y., E.C. David, S. Nakagawa, T.J. Kneafsey, D.R. Schmitt, and I. Jackson. (2018) A broadband laboratory study of the seismic properties of cracked and fluid-saturated synthetic glass media. Journal of Geophysical Research 123(5), 3501-3538. Link

Wenk, H-R., Lonardelli, I., H. Franz, K. Nihei and Nakagawa, S. (2007) Preferred orientation and elastic anisotropy of illite-rich shale Geophysics 72, E69-75. Link

Nakagawa, S., K. T. Nihei, and L. R. Myer (2004) Plane wave solution for elastic wave scattering by a heterogeneous fracture Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115(6), 2761-2773. Link

Nihei, K. T., N. G. W. Cook, Nakagawa, S., L.R. Myer, and B. Hilbert (2000) Frictional effects on the volumetric strain of sandstone, Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. & Geomech. Abstr., 37(1-2), 121-132/ Link


5 other significant publications:

Nakagawa, S., S. Nakashima, and V.A. Korneev (2015) Laboratory measurements of guided-wave propagation within a fluid-saturated fracture, Geophysical Prospect., 64, 143-156. Link

Nakagawa, S. and Korneev, V.A. (2014) Effect of fracture compliance on wave propagation within a fluid-filled fracture. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 135(6), 3186-3197. Link

Nihei, K. T., S. Nakagawa, S., F. Reverdy, L. R. Myer, L. Duranti, and G. Ball. (2011) Phased array compaction cell for measurement of the transversely isotropic elastic properties of compacting sediments. Geophysics 76, 1–11 Link

Nakagawa, S. (2011) Split Hopkinson resonant bar test for sonic-frequency acoustic velocity and attenuation measurements of small, isotropic geological samples. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 044901 Link

Nakagawa, S. and M.A.Schoenberg (2007) Poroelastic modeling of seismic boundary conditions across a fracture. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2), 831-847. Link

Synergistic Activities

Conference organizing committee, technical committee: ARMA (American Rock Mechanics Association) 2013, 2017, 2020. External advisor/thesis committee member for Ph.D. students: Australian National University (2016, 2018-present), Curtin University (2014, 2017), Michigan Technological University (2019-present) Reviewer for funding agencies: DOE BES.