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Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory

Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory

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Kumar Hemant
( ORAU )

Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory
NASA/GSFC, Code 698

Greenbelt, MD 20771

FAX: (301) 614-6522

Email: hemant@puuoo.gsfc.nasa.gov

CURRENT POSITION

    NPP (NASA Postdoctoral Program) Fellow, Oak Ridge Associated Universities

RESEARCH AREAS

    Geomagnetism, Crustal tectonics, Lunar Crustal Magnetization, GIS

EDUCATION

    1996 - BSc (Physics) University of Delhi, Delhi, India
    1999 - MTech (Applied Geophysics) University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India
    2003 - PhD (Geophysics) Freie University, Berlin, Germany

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

    1999 - 2000 Project Fellow, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.
    2000 - 2001 Junior Research Fellow (CSIR-UGC), National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India.
    2001 - 2003 Research Fellow, GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam and Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
    2003 - 2006 Post Doctoral Research Fellow, GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany.
    2006 - 2007 Lecturer in Geophysics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    2007 Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Magnetic Anomaly Map of the World, Scale 1:50 000 000, (Au - J.V. Korhonen, J.D. Fairhead, M. Hamoudi, K. Hemant, V. Lesur, M. Mandea, S. Maus, M. Purucker, D. Ravat, T. Sazonova, E. Thebault).

    2007 Hemant, K., Thebault, E., Mandea, M., Ravat, D., and Maus, S., Magnetic anomaly map of the world: merging airborne, marine and ground-based magnetic data sets, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.040.

    2007 Maus, S., Sazonova, T., Hemant, K., Fairhead, D., and Ravat, D., The NGDC candidate for the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map, Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2007GC001643.

    2007 Maus, S., Luehr, H., Martin, R., Hemant, K., Balasis, G., Ritter, P., and Claudia, S., Fifth-generation lithospheric magnetic field model from CHAMP satellite measurements, Geochem. Geophys Geosyst., 8, Q05013, doi:10.1029/2006GC001521.

    2006 Pilkington, M., Snyder, D.B., and Hemant, K., Weakly magnetic crust in the Canadian Cordillera, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts, 248, 461-470.

    2006 Maus, S., Martin, R., Hemant, K., Claudia, S., Luehr, H., Kuvshinov, A., and Olsen, N., Earth's crustal magnetic field determined to spherical harmonic degree 90 from CHAMP satellite measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 164, 319-330.

    2005 Hemant, K. and Maus, S., Geological modeling of the new CHAMP magnetic anomaly maps using a Geographical Information System (GIS) technique, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B12103, doi:10.1029/2005JB003837.

    2005 Hemant, K. and Maus, S., Why no anomaly is visible over most of the continent-ocean boundary in the global crustal magnetic field, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 149, 321-333.

    2004 Hemant, K., Maus, S. and Haak, V., Interpretation of CHAMP crustal field anomaly maps using a Geographical Information System (GIS) technique, In: Earth Observation with CHAMP - Results from three years in Orbit, Eds. C. Reigber, H. Luehr, P. Schwintzer and J. Wickert, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 249-254.

    2003 Hemant, K., and Maus, S., A comparison of global lithospheric field models derived from satellite magnetic data, In: First Champ Mission Results for Gravity, Magnetic and Atmospheric Studies, Eds. C. Reigber, H. Luehr, P. Schwintzer, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 261-268.

    2003 Maus, S., Hemant, K., Rother, M., and Luehr, H., Mapping the lithospheric magnetic field from CHAMP scalar and vector magnetic data, In Book First Champ Mission Results for Gravity, Magnetic and Atmospheric Studies, Eds. C. Reigber, H. Luehr, P. Schwintzer, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 269-274.

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