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Max Moorkamp
Lecturer at University of Leicester
Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (Leicester, United Kingdom) Higher Education

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Max Moorkamp's Overview

Current Past Education Lecturer at University of Leicester Geophysical Consultant at Geophysical Imaging Services Postdoctoral Researcher at IFM-GEOMAR PhD student at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies National University of Ireland, Galway University of California, Berkeley Georg-August-Universitt Gttingen 166 connections

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Max Moorkamp's Summary

I am a geophysicist with a broad background in electromagnetic and seismic methods. For the last 8 years I have been developing new methods to combine different types of geophysical data. While this involves a lot of theoretical and computational work, I also have a strong interest in practical measurements and geological interpretation of geophysical interpretation. I am always open for collaboration and currently seek new projects. As a geophysical consultant I can also provide commercial services such as modelling and, processing and analysis of electromagnetic and seismic data.

Max Moorkamp's Experience

Lecturer
University of Leicester
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

September 2011 Present (2 years 7 months)

My research is focused on combining different types of geophysical data in order to improve the imaging of Earth. This involves a wide range of skills from numerical and computational methods, data analysis to basics of geochemistry.

Geophysical Consultant
Geophysical Imaging Services
August 2012 Present (1 year 8 months) Leicester, United Kingdom

We provide a large range of consultancy services for magnetotelluric processing, data analysis and 3D inversion.

Postdoctoral Researcher
IFM-GEOMAR
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

March 2008 August 2011 (3 years 6 months)

This position was sponsored by a consortium of oil companies through the JIBA project. Together with colleagues from the University of Durham we developed a 3D deterministic joint inversion for electromagnetic, seismic and gravity data for large scale applications. A second component was bayesian analysis of joint inversion models to quantify uncertainty.

PhD student
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry

January 2004 February 2008 (4 years 2 months)

Dublin, Ireland

For my PhD I developed a joint inversion algorithm for magnetotelluric and seismic receiver function data. It is based on a genetic algorithm and has the special ability to identify the trade-off between fitting the different datasets. This trade-off, in turn, indicated in how far seismic and electromagnetic data sense similar structures, an issue often neglected in joint inversion.

Max Moorkamp's Test Scores

TOEFL
March 2000 | Score: 292/300

Max Moorkamp's Courses

Lecturer
University of Leicester Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Theory and Practice (Module A) Building Research Capacity (Module E)

PhD student
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Summer of Applied Geophyiscal Experience

Max Moorkamp's Organizations

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AGU
Associate Editor JGR Solid Earth

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Higher Education Academy

Fellow

Max Moorkamp's Projects

GPLib
January 2004 to Present Team Members: Max Moorkamp

An open source C++ library for basic seismic and magnetotelluric data analysis and modelling.

jif3D
May 2013 to Present Team Members: Max Moorkamp, Bjrn Heincke

An open-source framework for 3D joint inversion of seismic, gravity and magnetotelluric data written in C++.

Max Moorkamp's Publications

Verification of velocity-resistivity relationships derived from structural joint inversion with borehole data
Geophysical Research Letters | July 27, 2013 Authors: Max Moorkamp, A. W. Roberts, Bjrn Heincke, R. W. Hobbs, Marion Jegen

We present results of three-dimensional joint inversion of seismic, magnetotelluric, and gravity data over a marine salt dome. Such structures are difficult to image with a single method, and our results demonstrate how combining different techniques can yield improved results. More importantly, we examine the reliability of velocity-conductivity relationships derived from structure-... more

A framework for 3-D joint inversion of MT, gravity and seismic refraction data
Geophysical Journal International | January 1, 2011 Authors: Max Moorkamp, Bjrn Heincke, Marion Jegen

We present a 3-D joint inversion framework for seismic, magnetotelluric (MT) and scalar and tensorial gravity data. Using large-scale optimization methods, parallel forward solvers and a flexible implementation in terms of model parametrization allows us to investigate different coupling approaches for the various physical parameters involved in the joint inversion. Here we compare two different... more

Joint inversion of receiver functions, surface wave dispersion, and magnetotelluric data
Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth | April 30, 2010 Authors: Max Moorkamp, Alan Jones, S. Fishw ick

We present joint inversion of magnetotelluric, receiver function, and Raleigh wave dispersion data for a one-dimensional Earth using a multiobjective genetic algorithm (GA). The chosen GA produces not only a family of models that fit the data sets but also the trade-off between fitting the different data sets. The analysis of this trade-off gives insight into the compatibility between the seismic... more

Massively parallel forward modeling of scalar and tensor gravimetry data

Computers and Geosciences | May 1, 2010 Authors: Max Moorkamp, B. Heincke, R. Hobbs, A. Roberts, Marion Jegen

We present an approach to calculate scalar and tensor gravity utilizing the massively parallel architecture of consumer graphics cards. Our parametrization is based on rectilinear blocks with constant density within each blocks. This type of parametrization is well suited for inversion of gravity data or joint inversion with other datasets, but requires the calculation of a large number of model... more

Joint inversion of teleseismic receiver functions and magnetotelluric data using a genetic algorithm: Are seismic velocities and electrical conductivities compatible?
Geophysical Research Letters | August 25, 2007 Authors: Max Moorkamp, Alan Jones, David Eaton

Joint inversion of different kinds of geophysical data has the potential to improve model resolution, under the assumption that the different observations are sensitive to the same subsurface features. Here, we examine the compatibility of P-wave teleseismic receiver functions and long-period magnetotelluric (MT) observations, using joint inversion, to infer one-dimensional lithospheric structure.... more

Joint inversion of long-period magnetotelluric data and surface-wave dispersion curves for anisotropic structure: Application to data from Central Germany
Geophysical Research Letters | March 10, 2011 Authors: Max Moorkamp, Alan Jones

Geophysical datasets sensitive to different physical parameters can be used to improve resolution of Earth's internal structure. Herein, we jointly invert long-period magnetotelluric (MT) data and surface-wave dispersion curves. Our approach is based on a joint inversion using a genetic algorithm for a onedimensional (1-D) isotropic structure, which we extend to 1-D anisotropic media. We apply... more

Max Moorkamp's Languages

English (Native or bilingual proficiency) German (Native or bilingual proficiency) Spanish (Elementary proficiency)

Max Moorkamp's Skills & Expertise

Joint inversion Seismic Inversion Seismology
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Geophysics Lecturing Electromagnetics

Geophysical Surveys C++ Boost C++ Scientific Computing

Geophysical Data Processing GPGPU Inversion Earth Science Algorithms

Inverse Problems

Magnetotellurics Geology

Modeling

Numerical Analysis

Max Moorkamp's Education

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National University of Ireland, Galway
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geophysics
2004 2007

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University of California, Berkeley

Education abroad Student, Geophysics and Seismology
2000 2001

Georg-August-Universitt Gttingen
Diplom, Geophysics
1998 2003

Max Moorkamp's Additional Information

Groups and Associations: SEG
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Boost and Loki developers C++ Professionals High Performance & Super Computing Horizon 2020, Official Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Group Inverse and ill-posed Problems MTNet Marine Electromagnetics Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE) Tex / LaTeX User Group The EM Network University of California at Berkeley

Honors and Awards:

Outstanding Reviewer of the year 2011 and 2012 for Geophysical Journal International Fellow of The Higher Education Academy Honorary Research Associate at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

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