Aaron J Girard - Research Page

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Dr. Aaron J Girard

Center for Wave Phenomena

Geophysics Department

Colorado School of Mines

924 16th Street, Room 263

Golden, CO 80401-1877, USA

Email: agirard [at] mines.edu

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1455-2514

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RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Basic research

Seismic data processing and imaging

Ambient/passive seimic monitoring

Applied research

Ambient low-frequency OBN velocity model building

Ambient seismic imaging for mining and O&G resources

Multiphysics exploration

DAS exploration

Computing

High performance computing (HPC) resource management

General Purpose GPU computing, CUDA

Madagascar software management

DASCORE development team

Collaborating Organisations

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

TEACHING

Courses:

CSM GPGN 314 - APPLIED GEOPHYSICS: Spring 2020 - Spring 2022 (Seismic section)

CSM GPGN 438 - Senior Design advisor of student projects: Spring 2021 - Spring 2024

BRIEF VITAE

Education

Employment

PUBLICATIONS

Note: * indicates first author.

Journal Articles

*Girard, A.J., J. Shragge, M. Danilouchkine, C. Udengaard, S. Gerritsen, (2024) "Observations from the Seafloor: Ultra-low-frequency Ambient Ocean-Bottom Nodal Seismology at the Amendment Field," Geophysical Journal International (under review).
Shragge, J., A.J. Girard, C. Oren, R. Krahenbuhl (2024) "Elastic Time-Reverse Imaging of Backscattered Surface-Wave Data," Geophysics (accepted)
Nakata, R., N. Nakata, A.J. Girard, D. Lumley, M. Ichikawa, A. Kato, Z. Xue, (2024) "Time-lapse velocity change estimation by anisotropic elastic full waveform inversion for CO2 sequestration at the Nagaoka CCS site," International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (under review).
Chambers, D., G. Jin, A. Tourei , A.H.S. Issah, A. Lellouch, E. Martin, D. Zhu, A. Girard, S. Yuan, T. Cullison, T. Snyder, S. Kim, N. Danes, N. Punithan, S. Boltz, and M.M. Mendoza, (2024) "DASCore: a Python Library for Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing," Seismica (under review).
Yang, J., J. Shragge, A.J. Girard, E. Gonzalez, J. Ticona, A. Minaya and R. Krahenbuhl, (2023) "Seismic Characterization of a Recent Majes Landslide Complex," Sustainability, 15, no. 18: 13574.
Pandey, A., J. Shragge, D. Chambers, and A. Girard, (2023) "Developing a Distributed Acoustic Sensing Seismic Land Streamer: Concept and Validation", GEOPHYSICS, 88: WC59-WC67.
*Girard, A.J., Shragge, J. and Olofsson, B., (2023), "Low-frequency ambient ocean-bottom node surface-wave seismology: A Gulf of Mexico case history," GEOPHYSICS 88: B21-B32. (kudos)
*Girard, A.J. and Shragge, J. (2020), Automated processing strategies for ambient seismic data. Geophysical Prospecting, 68: 293-312.
*Girard, A.J. and Shragge, J. (2020), Direct migration of ambient seismic data. Geophysical Prospecting, 68: 270-292.
*Girard, A.J. (2019). Automated processing and direct migration of ambient seismic data. University of Western Australia, PhD Thesis.