Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory
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Kumar Hemant Singh
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CURRENT POSITION
- Associated Research Scientist, University of Maryland Baltimore County
RESEARCH AREAS
- Ocean Flow Induction, 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 Universitat, Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 - 2006 | Post Doctoral Research Fellow, GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany. | 2006 - 2007 | Lecturer in Geophysics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. |
| 2007 - 2008 | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA GSFC at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Greenbelt. Maryland, USA. |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009 Hemant, K., Mitchell, A., Magnetic field modelling and interpretation of the Himalayan-Tibetan plateau and adjoining north Indian Plains (Tectonophysics - in press).
2009 Thebault, E., Hemant, K., Hulot, G., Olsen, N., Time-varying large scale lithospheric magnetic fields, Geophys.Res.Letts, 36, L01307, doi:10.1029/2008GL036416.
2007 Korhonen, J.V., Fairhead, J.D., Hamoudi, M., Hemant, K., Lesur, V., Mandea, M., Maus, S., Purucker, M., Ravat, D., Sazonova, T., Thebault, E., Magnetic Anomaly Map of the World, Scale 1:50 000 000, Commission for the Geological Map of the World.
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 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.
