Huub Douma
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Huub Douma, Ph.D.

Research Geophysicist



Resume summary

I am a former student from the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) at Colorado School of Mines, where I completed my PhD in 2006 under the guidance of Roel Snieder (a copy of my thesis can be found in the list of publications). Subsequently I moved to the Geosciences department at Princeton University where I collaborated with Tony Dahlen (passed away), Guust Nolet, and Ingrid Daubechies. Currently I work for ION Geophysical as a Research Scientist and am a visiting research scientist at Princeton University. Prior to my studies at CWP I was a research assistant in the Exploration Geophysics group at Utrecht University, and worked for Western Geophysical (now WesternGeco) as a field seismic analyst, data processing analyst, staff geophysicist and a research geophysicist.

The fields of global and exploration seismology are currently converging at a fast rate due to the advance of array-based acquisition methodology in global seismology and passive seismic monitoring in exploration seismology. Therefore, both fields can greatly benefit from increased interaction. My visit to Jeroen Tromp's seismology group at Princeton University aims to benefit from such cross-fertilization.


Education

M.Sc. Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1996

Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, 2006

Hess Research Fellow, Princeton University, 2006-2008


Recent publications

  • R.Snieder, H.Douma, and I.Vasconcelos, 2012, Extracting the Green's function from measurements of the energy flux, Submitted to JASA Express Letters
  • M.Haney and H.Douma, 2012, Rayleigh wave tomography at Coronation Field, Canada: The topography effect, The Leading Edge, 31, p.54-61, PDF
  • H.Douma, I.Vasconcelos, and R.Snieder, 2011, The reciprocity theorem for the scattered field is the progenitor of the generalized optical theorem, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 129, 2765-2771, PDF

For a full list of publications visit the publications page.


Peer-reviewed SEG abstracts 2011

  • H.Douma, and M.Haney, 2011, Surface-wave inversion for near-surface shear-wave velocity estimation at Coronation field, Expanded Abstracts of the SEG 81th Annual International Meeting, San Antonio, PDF
  • M.Haney and H.Douma, 2011, Inversion of Love wave phase velocity, group velocity and shear stress ratio using finite elements, Expanded Abstracts of the SEG 81th Annual International Meeting, San Antonio, PDF
  • K. van Wijk, H.Douma, D.Mikesell, and M.Haney, 2011, Exploiting the crossterms of the virtual Rayleigh-wave Green tensor for surface-wave inversion, Expanded Abstracts of the SEG 81th Annual International Meeting, San Antonio, PDF

Research Interests

My research interests are mainly in adjoint tomography, surface wave inversion, passive seismic monitoring, seismic interferometry and reciprocity theorems, seismic anisotropy, multiple scattering, map migration, imaging with curvelets, and coda wave interferometry. In my current role as research geophysicist at ION Geophysical I am fortunate to have the freedom to collaborate with people in universities largely freely. Thus, if you are interested in collaborating with me on any of the above-mentioned topics, please send me an email.


Contact Information

work e-mail: huub.douma at iongeo.com
personal e-mail: huub.douma at gmail.com


Personal Interests

When I'm not working I can mostly be found behind my baby grand writing music or playing in the ocean at a nearby beach.