Chester J Weiss

Chester J. Weiss Education BS (1992) Physics, University of Arizona PhD (1998) Geophysics, Texas A&M University Experience 1997: Visiting Scientist Inst. for Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge Univ. (UK) 1999-2007: Geophysicist Sandia National Laboratories 2004: Cecil & Ida Green Scholar Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Scripps Institution of Oceanography 2007: Scholar in Residence Non-Seismic Geophysics Group, BP-Americas, Houston TX 2007- : Associate Professor of Geophysics Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech

General Research Interests: electromagnetic methods in geophysics; scientific epistemology; computational geophysics. Specific Research Topics: near-surface characterization and hydrogeophysics; global geomagnetic induction; reservoir exploration and characterization; non-linear inversion of noisy, sparse geophysical data; finite element/volume/difference methods for solving PDE's; probabilistic inference; methods of fractional calculus for transport and propagation in geological materials.