Dr Oliver Kuras

Dr Oliver KurasResearch Geophysicist

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 9363416

E-mail Dr Oliver Kuras

Biography

  • 2001–present: Research Geophysicist, BGS
  • 2003: PhD University of Nottingham, Environmental Geophysics
  • 1998: Gas Technology Hub PhD Studentship Award
  • 1998: MSc University of Göttingen (Germany), Physics

Research interests

  • Capacitive Resistivity Imaging (CRI) – theory and applications
  • Automated time-Lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ALERT) — applications to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
  • Electrical and electromagnetic tomographic imaging methodology
  • Remote geophysical process monitoring (4D)
  • Distributed wireless sensor networks — applications to catchment science

Skills

  • Near-surface geophysical methods
  • Geophysical theory and technique development
  • Instrumentation, IT, telemetry
  • Geoscientific modelling and visualisation

Current projects and collaboration

  • Principal Investigator: “Monitoring the thermal state of permafrost by automated time-lapse capacitive resistivity imaging”, NERC grant NE/I000917/1 (Technology Proof of Concept). Co-Investigator: Dr Julian Murton, University of Sussex
  • CO2FieldLab - monitoring of CO2 migration in geological formations

Professional association

  • Chair, Near-Surface Geophysics Group (NSGG) of the Geological Society
  • Chartered Physicist
  • Fellow of the Geological Society
  • Member of AGU, SEG, EAGE, EEGS, DGG, IoP
  • Reviewer for Geophysics, Geophysical Journal International, Vadose Zone Journal, Journal of Applied Geophysics, Near-Surface Geophysics, Science of the Total Environment, Swiss National Science Foundation, EAGE

Published outputs

Key Papers

KURAS, O, PRITCHARD, J D, MELDRUM, P I, CHAMBERS, J E, WILKINSON, P B, OGILVY, R D, and WEALTHALL, G P. 2009. Monitoring hydraulic processes with Automated time-Lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ALERT). Comptes Rendus Geoscience - Special Issue on Hydrogeophysics, Vol. 341, 868–885.

KURAS, O, MELDRUM, P I, BEAMISH, D, OGILVY, R D, and LALA, D. 2007. Capacitive resistivity imaging with towed arrays. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Vol. 12, 267-279.

KURAS, O, BEAMISH, D, MELDRUM, P I, and OGILVY, R D. 2006. Fundamentals of the capacitive resistivity technique. Geophysics, Vol. 71, G135-G152.