Bio

Seogi Kang is a postdoctoral fellow in the the Department of Geophysics at Stanford. His current research focuses on developing an effective workflow to image subsurface hydrostratigraphy at Central Valley of California using airborne electromagnetic method. Seogi is a core contributor to SimPEG, an open source software project for geophysical simulation and inversions.

Honors & Awards

  • Best student oral presentation (Minerals), ASEG-PESA (02/2015)
  • Outstanding Student Paper Award (Nearsurface Geophysics), American Geophysical Union (02/2015)
  • IDEA Innovation Award 2015: "Open source geophysics project, SimpEG", UBC library (02/2016)

Professional Education

  • Master of Science, Hanyang University (2012)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia (2018)
  • Bachelor of Science, Hanyang University (2010)

Community and International Work

  • La Plata Internatinoal School on Astronomy and Geophysics (LAPIS) 2019 Short Courses, La Plata, Argentina

    Topic

    Inverthe theory: determinisitic approach / co-presenter

    Partnering Organization(s)

    La Plata University

    Populations Served

    ~50

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • Petroleum Geophysics - Summer 2018 Short Courses, Houston

    Topic

    EM methods in exploration / co-presenter

    Partnering Organization(s)

    University of Houston

    Populations Served

    ~50

    Location

    US

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • Short Course on airborne electromagnetics, Aarhus, Denmark

    Topic

    D EM Modelling and Inversion with Open Source Resources

    Partnering Organization(s)

    Aarhus University

    Populations Served

    ~50

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • 2017 Distinguished Instructor Short Course

    Topic

    Geophysical Electromagnetics: Fundamentals and Applications / Co-presenter

    Partnering Organization(s)

    Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Populations Served

    ~1000

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • SimPEG: open-source geophysical simulation and parameter estimation package

    Topic

    Open-source development

    Partnering Organization(s)

    University of British Columbia, Colorado School of Mines

    Populations Served

    ~1000

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    Yes

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    Yes

  • Testing coincidnent loop TEM system for detecting seafloor massive suflide deposit, Okinawa, Japan

    Topic

    Research cruise at Okinawa area to explore seafloor massive suflides

    Partnering Organization(s)

    Waseda Univ.

    Populations Served

    ~30

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • EM geosci project

    Topic

    On-line text book and supporting app developments for electromagnetic geoophysics / main contributer

    Partnering Organization(s)

    University of British Columbia

    Populations Served

    ~1000

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    Yes

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    Yes

Contact

  • Academic
    sgkang09@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Department of Geophysics Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

Additional Info

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

To construct basis of groundwater sustainability plan in California, we develop an effective workflow that can map 3D hydrogeology of the subsurface by using airborne electromagnetic data that can cover large area fast.

All Publications

  • Isolating the Poroelastic Response of the Groundwater System in InSAR Data From the Central Valley of California GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Kang, S., Knight, R. 2023; 50 (9)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2023GL103222

    View details for Web of Science ID 000999835700001

  • Airborne geophysical method images fast paths for managed recharge of California's groundwater ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS Knight, R., Steklova, K., Miltenberger, A., Kang, S., Goebel, M., Fogg, G. 2022; 17 (12)

    View details for DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/aca344

    View details for Web of Science ID 000912079600001

  • Improved Imaging of the Large-Scale Structure of a Groundwater System With Airborne Electromagnetic Data WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH Kang, S., Knight, R., Goebel, M. 2022; 58 (4)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2021WR031439

    View details for Web of Science ID 000781886400001

  • Managed aquifer recharge site assessment with electromagnetic imaging: Identification of recharge flow paths VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL Pepin, K., Knight, R., Goebel-Szenher, M., Kang, S. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1002/vzj2.20192

    View details for Web of Science ID 000765256000001

  • Enhancing the resolving ability of electrical resistivity tomography for imaging saltwater intrusion through improvements in inversion methods: A laboratory and numerical study GEOPHYSICS Goebel, M., Knight, R., Kang, S. 2021; 86 (5): WB101-WB115

    View details for DOI 10.1190/GEO2020-0588.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000711980200063

  • The effect of power lines on time-domain airborne electromagnetic data GEOPHYSICS Kang, S., Dewar, N., Knight, R. 2021; 86 (2): E123-E141

    View details for DOI 10.1190/GEO2020-0089.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000663815900008

  • Time domain electromagnetic-induced polarisation: extracting more induced polarisation information from grounded source time domain electromagnetic data GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING Kang, S., Oldenburg, D. W. 2018; 66: 74–86

    View details for DOI 10.1111/1365-2478.12600

    View details for Web of Science ID 000428406000005

  • Inversion of airborne geophysics over the DO-27/DO-18 kimberlites - Part 3: Induced polarization INTERPRETATION-A JOURNAL OF SUBSURFACE CHARACTERIZATION Kang, S., Fournier, D., Oldenburg, D. W. 2017; 5 (3): T327–T340

    View details for DOI 10.1190/INT-2016-0141.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000409910400010

  • On recovering distributed IP information from inductive source time domain electromagnetic data GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Kang, S., Oldenburg, D. W. 2016; 207 (1): 174–96

    View details for DOI 10.1093/gji/ggw256

    View details for Web of Science ID 000384651200013

  • SIMPEG: An open source framework for simulation and gradient based parameter estimation in geophysical applications COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES Cockett, R., Kang, S., Heagy, L. J., Pidlisecky, A., Oldenburg, D. W. 2015; 85: 142–54

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cageo.2015.09.015

    View details for Web of Science ID 000365051100015

  • A feasibility study of CO2 sequestration monitoring using the mCSEM method at a deep brine aquifer in a shallow sea GEOPHYSICS Kang, S., Seol, S., Byun, J. 2012; 77 (2): E117–E126

    View details for DOI 10.1190/GEO2011-0089.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000302192800011

  • Exploring the Model Space of Airborne Electromagnetic Data to Delineate Large-Scale Structure and Heterogeneity Within an Aquifer System WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH Kang, S., Knight, R., Greene, T., Buck, C., Fogg, G. 2021; 57 (10)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2021WR029699

    View details for Web of Science ID 000711970600020

  • Distribution of Vapor and Condensate in a Hydrothermal System: Insights From Self-Potential Inversion at Mount Tongariro, New Zealand GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Miller, C. A., Kang, S. G., Fournier, D., Hill, G. 2018; 45 (16): 8190–98

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2018GL078780

    View details for Web of Science ID 000445612500036

  • A framework for simulation and inversion in electromagnetics COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES Heagy, L. J., Cockett, R., Kang, S., Rosenkjaer, G. K., Oldenburg, D. W. 2017; 107: 1–19

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cageo.2017.06.018

    View details for Web of Science ID 000411418600002

  • Inversion of airborne geophysics over the DO-27/DO-18 kimberlites - Part 2: Electromagnetics INTERPRETATION-A JOURNAL OF SUBSURFACE CHARACTERIZATION Fournier, D., Kang, S., McMillan, M. S., Oldenburg, D. W. 2017; 5 (3): T313–T325

    View details for DOI 10.1190/INT-2016-0140.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000409910400009

  • mCSEM inversion for CO2 sequestration monitoring at a deep brine aquifer in a shallow sea EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS Kang, S., Noh, K., Seol, S., Byun, J. 2015; 46 (3): 236–52

    View details for DOI 10.1071/EG14096

    View details for Web of Science ID 000360648400002

  • Pitfalls of 1D inversion of small-loop electromagnetic data for detecting man-made objects JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS Kang, S., Seol, S., Chung, Y., Kwon, H. 2013; 90: 96–109

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.01.003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000316167700010

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