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
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
Courses:
CSM GPGN 436/536 - Geophysical Computing: Fall 2025
CSM GPGN 438 - Senior Design advisor of student projects: Spring 2021 - Spring 2024
CSM GPGN 314 - Applied Geophysics: Spring 2020 - Spring 2022 (Seismic section)
Education
Employment
*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, Volume 239, Issue 1, October 2024, Pages 17–36. https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/6769/
*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)
Pandey, A., J. Shragge, and A. J. Girard (2024), "Ambient crosscorrelation modeling for dense ocean-bottom node arrays: a Gulf of Mexico example." IMAGE, SEG Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
J. Shragge and A. Girard. "Observations From the Seafloor: Ultra-Low-Frequency Ambient Ocean-Bottom Nodal Seismology From the Gulf of Mexico." In Seismological Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting. 2024.
D. Chambers, 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. "DASCore: A python library for distributed acoustic sensing." In Seismological Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting. 2024.
*Girard, A. J., J. Shragge, and B. Olofsson (2021), "Identifying salt flanks using low-frequency ambient OBN surface-wave seismology," SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts: 1991-1995. (Received Honorable Mention for best submission in 2021)
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