Joel Podgorski
Keywords : modelling Groundwater
Country : Canada
Organization : University of British Columbia
Department : Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Biography :
Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
02.2010-present PhD in Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich
- Thesis: “Hydrogeological investigation of the Okavango Delta, Botswana using airborne TEM and ground-based geophysical methods”
- Planned completion: August 2014
08.2004-07.2006 M.S. in Geophysics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Thesis: “Post-seismic deformation following the 1991 Racha, Georgia earthquake”
- Numerical modeling and data analysis coursework
07.1997 Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE), New Mexico, USA
02.1996-11.1996 Education Abroad Program, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Geology coursework and fieldwork
07.1993-06.1997 B.S. (honors) in Earth Sciences, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA
- Groundwater and environmental geology emphasis
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
10.2014-present Project Coordinator and Geospatial Modeller, Eawag – Aquatic Research, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Business plan creation and ensuring long-term sustainability of web platform
- Project contact person and day-to-day coordination of activities
- Assist developing and testing of web platform for groundwater risk modelling
- Conduct training courses and workshops for partners in developing countries
- Risk modelling of geogenic groundwater contamination (Python, R)
- GIS database administration
02.2010-07.2014 Scientific Research Assistant, ETH Zurich
- Designing/organizing/leading multi-week ground-based geophysical survey expeditions into the Okavango Delta, Botswana
- Processing and inversion modeling of airborne and ground-based geophysical datasets
- Formulation of a regional hydrogeological model based on analyses of geophysical survey results, groundwater samples and borehole logs
- Groundwater flow modeling of freshwater infiltration and saltwater fingering
- Collaborating with and orchestrating fieldwork efforts among various international research institutions, governmental agencies and private businesses
- Management of a CHF 100,000 annual research budget
- Publishing and presenting results in peer-reviewed journals and conferences
08.2004-11.2006 Scientific Research Assistant, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Modeling of post-seismic tectonic displacements using geodetic time series data
- Collaborating with various international research groups
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Training of colleagues from the Botswana Geological Survey in making geophysical measurements in the field (2011)
• Teaching assistant, Advanced Geophysics Field Course, ETH Zurich (2012)
• Supervision of masters students:
o P. Meier, Groundwater Investigations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, using Electrical Resistivity and Transient Electromagnetic Techniques, ETH Zurich (2012)
o F. Reiser, Testing the Proto-Okavango Delta Hypothesis Using Seismic Reflection and Refraction, ETH Zurich (2012)
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Kalscheuer, T., Blake, S., Podgorski, J.E., Wagner, F., Green, A.G., Maurer, H., Jones, A.G., Muller, M., Ntibinyane, O, Tshoso, G., 2015, Joint inversions of three types of electromagnetic data explicitly constrained by seismic observations: Results from the Central Okavango Delta, Botswana, Geophysical Journal International, 202(3), DOI:10.1093/gji/ggv184
Podgorski, J.E., Green, A.G., Kalscheuer, T., Kinzelbach, W., Horstmeyer, H., Maurer, H., Rabenstein, L., Doetsch, J., Auken, E., Ngwisanyi, T., Tshoso, G., Jaba, B.C., Ntibinyane, O, and Laletsang, K., 2015, Integrated interpretation of helicopter and ground-based geophysical data recorded within the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 114, DOI:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.12.017
Meier, P., Kalscheuer, T., Podgorski, J., Green, A., Greenhalgh, S., Rabenstein, L., Doetsch, J., Kinzelbach, W., Auken, E., Mikkelsen, P., Foged, N., Jaba, B., Tshoso, G., and Ntibinyane, O., 2014, Hydrogeophysical investigations in the western and northern Okavango Delta (Botswana) using electrical resistance tomography (ERT) and transient electromagnetic (TEM) techniques, Geophysics 79(5):B201-B211, DOI:10.1190/geo2014-0001.1
Reiser, F., Podgorski, J., Schmelzbach, C., Horstmeyer, H., Green, A., Kalscheuer, T., Maurer, H., Kinzelbach, W. and Gomotsang, T., 2013, Constraining helicopter electromagnetic models of the Okavango Delta with seismic-refraction and seismic-reflection data, Geophysics 79(3), DOI:10.1190/geo2013-0278.1
Podgorski, J.E., Green, A.G., Kgotlhang, L., Kinzelbach, W.K.H., Kalscheuer, T., Auken, E. and Ngwisanyi, T., 2013, Paleo megalake and paleo megafan in southern Africa, Geology, 41(11), DOI:10.1130/G34735.1
Podgorski, J.E., Auken, E., Schamper, C., Christiansen, A.V., Kalscheuer, T. and Green, A.G., 2013, Processing and inverting commercial helicopter time-domain electromagnetic data for environmental assessments and geological and hydrological mapping, Geophysics, 78(4):149-E159, DOI:10.1190/geo2012-0452.1
Podgorski, J., Hearn, E.H., McClusky, S., Reilinger, R., Taymaz, T., Tan, O., Prilepin, M., Guseva, T. and Nadariya, M., 2007, Postseismic deformation following the 1991 Racha, Georgia, earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 340(4), DOI:10.1029/2006GL028477