Associate Professor

John E. and Joretta A. Chance Endowed Professorship in Geophysics

Email: rui.zhang@louisiana.edu

Office Phone: 337-482-6920

Address: 611 McKinley Street

Hamilton Hall #313

P.O. Box 44650

Lafayette, LA 70504

Bryan McCallister earned his B.Sc. in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Wright State University in 2018. After graduation, he worked as a Staff Geophysicist at Green Geophysics, Inc. until fall of 2020 when he began working on his M.S. in Geology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with Dr. Rui Zhang. Bryan McCallister’s thesis is to image a fracture zone at the In Salah carbon dioxide storage project in Algeria using 3D seismic diffractions.

S M Shamsul Hoque is a PhD student in Earth and Energy Sciences at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He obtained his B.Sc. in Petroleum and Mining Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. He is currently working as a research assistant for Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory (TMSL) project. His PhD project is to develop a machine learning technique to estimate the geomechanical properties of the unconventional reservoir, such as Tuscaloosa Marine Shale.

Silas Adeoluwa Samuel obtained his B.Sc. in Geology and Mining at the University of Jos, Nigeria in 2016. He is a current M.S. in Geology student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Under the auspices of Dr Zhang, his thesis involves investigating the rock physics of the Duperow Formation, from the Kevin Dome in north-central Montana, USA, as a potential site for Geologic Carbon Sequestration. Seismic and well log data interpretation techniques would be explored for this research.

Daniella Cimadomo is an M.S. student studying Geology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette under advisor Dr. Rui Zhang. She obtained her B.Sc. in Geology from Binghamton University in New York state. Daniella's master's thesis research focuses on high-resolution surface-sourced seismic data which was acquired to image the shallow Carrizo Sand reservoir in northern-central Louisiana with the purpose of trying to determine changes in lithology and fluid content within the sand reservoir.