George Tsoflias Associate Professor Geophysics Department of Geology office: 302 Lindley Hall tel: (785) 864-4584 fax: (785) 864-5276 tsoflias@ku.edu

Appointments & Professional Experience

Visiting Professor, Land Environment and Geo-Engineering Department (DITAG), Politecnico di Torino, Italy, December 2009 - May 2010
Visiting Professor, Herbette Fellow, Institute of Geophysics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2009 - November 2009
Associate Professor, Department of Geology, The University of Kansas, 2009 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, The University of Kansas, 2003 - 2009
Exploration Geophysicist, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1999 - 2003
Exploration Geophysicist, Jones Energy Ltd., 1996 - 1998
Exploration Geophysicist, Mobil Oil, 1991 - 1995

Education

Ph.D. 1999, The University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences
M. Sc. 1991, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geophysics                
B. Sc. 1989, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geophysics

Teaching:

Geol 171: Earthquakes and Natural Disasters
Geol 577: Environmental Geophysics
Geol 771: Advanced Geophysics; Ground Penetrating Radar
Geol 791: Advanced Topics in Geology; Imperial Barrel Award

Research Interests

My research focuses on the development of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and seismic methods for remote determination of subsurface properties and monitoring of active processes. My work spans a broad range of study areas and scales, from monitoring bacterial activity in contaminated aquifers and imaging groundwater flow through discrete fractures, to mapping active faults in the Western US and imaging the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Active Research:

Quantitative characterization of fractures and monitoring of flow through fractured formations employing GPR wavefield attributes
High-resolution GPR and seismic imaging of carbonate hydrocarbon reservoir analogues and assessment of flow heterogeneity
Development of automated 3D shallow seismic surveying methods
GPR and seismic imaging of active tectonic settings
Hydrogeophysical (GPR) investigation of aquifer flow and transport properties
Biogeophysical (GPR) monitoring of subsurface microbial activity
Seismic and radar imaging of polar ice sheets and rapidly changing ice streams: Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets CReSIS
Climate change, humans and nature in the global environment C-CHANGE
Development of seismic and GPR methods for transportation infrastructure projects: KU Transportation Research Institute

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