Computational Geo-Electromagnetics

With over 30 years’ geophysics experience, Dr. Spichak’s main research interests include joint interpretation of electromagnetic and other geophysical data, indirect estimation of the Earth’s physical properties from the ground electromagnetic data, and computational electromagnetics. Spichak has authored and edited 8 books with Elsevier, including Electromagnetic Sounding of the Earth's Interior (2015). He is the winner of the Gamburtsev award for the monograph “Magnetotelluric fields in three-dimensional models of geoelectrics” (1999) and the Schmidt medal for outstanding achievements in Geophysics (2010).

• 1. 3-D EM forward modeling techniques2. Three dimensional Bayesian statistical inversion3. Methodology of the neural network estimation of the model macro-parameters4. Building of 3-D geoelectrical models at the lack of magnetotelluric data5. Methods for joint inversion and analysis of EM and other geophysical data6. Electromagnetic study of geothermal areas7. 3-D magnetotelluric sounding of volcanic interiors: methodological aspects8. A conceptual model of the Earth’s crust of Icelandic type9. Conceptual model of the lens in the upper crust (Northern Tien Shan case study)10. Conceptual model of the copper – porphyry ore formation (Sorskoe copper-molybdenum ore deposit case study)11. Electromagnetic sounding of hydrocarbon reservoirs12. Temperature forecasting from electromagnetic data13. Recovering seismic velocities and electrical resistivity from the EM sounding data and seismic tomography14. Porosity forecast from EM sounding data and resistivity logs