Advances in Modeling and Interpretation in Near Surface Geophysics (Springer Geophysics)

 
This book is specifically aimed with the state-of-art information regarding research  advances and new developments in these areas of study, coupled to extensive modeling and field investigations obtained from around the world. It is extremely enlightening for the research workers, scientists, faculty members and students, in Applied Geophysics, Near Surface Geophysics, Potential Field, Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods, Mathematical Modeling Techniques in Earth Sciences, as well as Environmental Geophysics.

Arkoprovo Biswas is an Assistant Professor at Department of Geology, Institute of 

Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Hereceived his B.Sc. (2002) in Geology

 from Presidency College, University of Calcutta, M.Sc. (2004) in Geological Science, 

M.Tech (2006) in Earth and Environmental Science from IIT Kharagpur, P. G. Diploma (2009) 

in Petroleum Exploration from Annamalai University. He joined Geostar Surveys India Pvt. 

Ltd as a Geophysicist in 2006 and later joined WesternGeco Electromagnetics, Schlumberger 

as an On Board Data Processing Field Engineer/Geophysicist in 2007 and served there till

 2008. In 2013 he received his Ph.D. in Exploration Geophysics from IIT Kharagpur. Later,

he joined the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science

 Education and Research Bhopal as a Visiting Faculty in 2014 andcompleted his tenure in 

2015. He again joined Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) Dehradun in 2016 as 

Research Associate and later he joined BHU on October 2017.His main Research Interest

 includes Near Surface Geophysics, Integrated Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods, 

Geophysical Inversion, Mineral and Groundwater Exploration and Subsurface contamination.

He has published several papers on theoretical modeling, inversion and application in 

chapters. He is also a Life member of Indian Geophysical Union and an Active member of 

SEG (USA). He is also an Associate Editor of Journal of Earth System Sciences, Springer

 and reviewer of many international journals.

Shashi Prakash Sharma is a Professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics, 

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He graduated (1988) from Banaras 

Hindu University, Varanasi, and received a Ph.D. (1994) from the National Geophysical 

Research Institute, Hyderabad, India. He worked in the Rajasthan Groundwater Department 

from 1994 to 1996 and Oulu University, Finland, from 1996 to 1999 before joining IIT 

Kharagpur at 1999. His research interests include electrical and electromagnetic 

geophysics, joint inversion, global optimization, VLF Electromagnetics, integrated 

interpretation, and groundwater and mineral exploration. He received the Marie Curie

 fellowship for advanced research 2008–2009 at EotvosLorand Geophysical Research 

Institute, Budapest, Hungary. He was visiting Professor at University of Hokkaido, 

Japan in 2015. He is also active as editorial board member of national journals and 

reviewer of some international journals. He has published numerous papers on theoretical 

modeling, inversion and application in practical Geoscience problems in peer-reviewed 

international, national journals and book chapters. Till date, 7 students have been

 awarded PhD degrees under his supervision.