Nazarbayev University
School of Mining & Geosciences

School of Mining & Geosciences

Faculty

Dr. Milovan Fustic
Associate Professor
Phone : +7 (7172) 694535
Education
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  1. PhD Petroleum Geology (2008), University of Calgary, Canada
  2. Diploma in Geology (MSc equivalent, 1993), University of Belgrade, Serbia
Employment history
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  1. 2019 to date: Associate Professor of Geology, School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
  2. 2013 to date: Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  3. 2018 - 2019: Senior Petroleum Geologist, Harvest Corporation / Korean National Oil Company, Calgary, CANADA
  4. 2016 - 2018: Petroleum System Analyst / Petroleum Resources Assessment, Geological Survey of Canada (Natural Resources Canada)
  5. 2015 - 2016: Research Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada
  6. 2015 - 2015: Principal Exploration Geologist - Unconventional, Statoil
  7. 2014 - 2015: Principal Exploration Geologist - Conventional Offshore, Statoil
  8. 2011-2014: Principal Research Geologist - Heavy Oil Technology Centre, Statoil
  9. 2006 - 2011: Staff Geologist, Nexen Inc. Calgary, Canada
  10. 2004 - 2006: Petroleum Geologist, Shell, Calgary, Canada
  11. 2000 - 2004: Geologist, Shell, Fort McMurray, Canada
  12. 1997 - 2000: Geologist, TIH Consulting, Calgary, Canada
  13. 1994 - 1997: Mine Geologist, Magnochrom, Uzice, Serbia
  14. 1993 - 1994: Geologist, Naftagas (State Oil Company), Serbia
Awards/Honours
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  1. Excellence in Science Award (team award) by Natural Resources Canada Lands and Mineral Sector, 2019
  2. The Best Oral Presentation, GeoConvention 2016, selected out from 360 presented talks: A Virtual McMurray Formation Outcrop Tour – An Evolving Tool for Characterizing Oil Sands Reservoirs and Creating Realistic Geomodels
  3. CSPG Distinguished Lecturer – Eastern Canada Lecture Tour, 2017
  4. CSPG Medal of Merit awarded annually for the best paper published during the previous year on a subject related to the petroleum geology of Canada, 2012
  5. CSPG Medal of Merit – Honorable Mention, 2010
Research Interests
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  1. Advancing petroleum exploration and development concepts based on 5G approach: Geology, Geophysics (qualitative), Geochemistry, Geomodeling, and Geomicrobiology.
  2. Clastic Sedimentology (modern, outcrop, and subsurface)
  3. Biogeochemistry
Publications
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  1. Fustic, M., R. Strobl, M. Fowler, B. Jablonski, and A.W. Martinius, 2019, Impact of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Oil Migration and the Origin of Oil-Water Contacts: McMurray Formation Type Section, Alberta, Canada, Marine and Petroleum Geology. p. 216-230.
  2. Fustic, M., R. Strobl, M. Ghinassi, and Zhang S., Unsuccessful cut offs - origin and partial preservation of enigmatic channels encased within a large-scale point bar deposit  with Implications to Reservoir Developments, The McMurray Formation Type Section, Alberta, Canada, 2018, In, Fluvial Meanders and Their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record (IAS SP 48), Eds. Massimiliano Ghinassi, Luca Colombera, Nigel Mountney and Arnold Jan H. Reesink; International Association of Sedimentologists, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; p. 321-347.
  3. Fustic M., Atkins, E., Hanna M., and Lister C., 2018, Qualitative Assessment of Petroleum Potential South-Central Arctic Archipelago, Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report, p-36. 
  4. Hein F., Fustic M., P.Hackley, W. A., Ambrose, J.S., Mead, T.Bata, S. Schamel, R.Ibatulin, B. Cardott, J.C., Pashin, U. Hammes, and D. Rokosh, 2018, Unconventional Energy Resources: 2017 Review, Natural Resources Research,  DOI: 10.1007/s11053-018-9432-1
  5. Ferguson, R., King, H.M., Kublik, K., Rohr, K.M.M., Kung, L., Lister, C.J., Fustic, M., Hayward, N., Brent, T.A., Jassim, Y., 2018. Petroleum, mineral, and other resource potential in the offshore Pacific, British Columbia, Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8390, 82 p. https://doi.org/10.4095/308395
  6. Martinius, W.A., M. Fustic, D.L. Garner, B.V.J. Jablonski, R.S. Strobl, J.A. MacEachern, S.E. Dashtgard, Reservoir characterization and multiscale heterogeneity modelling of inclined heterolithic strata formed by point bar rotation and relocation (McMurray Formation, Corner, Alberta), Marine and Petroleum Geology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.02.003
  7. Hubert, C., and M. Fustic, 2017, Microbialy Influenced Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (Mi-SAGD), application number WO 2017049404 A1.  (http://www.google.com/patents/WO2017049404A1?cl=en ).
  8. Atkins E, Fustic M., Hanna M., and Lister C., 2017, Qualitative Assessment of Petroleum Potential in Lancaster Sound Region, Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 8297, p. 22. https://doi.org/10.4095/305321
  9. Ghinassi,M., A. Ielpi, M. Aldinucci, and M. Fustic, 2016, Downstream-migrating fluvial point bars in the rock record, Sedimentary Geology, p. 66-96, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.01.005  
  10. Martinius, W. A., B.J.V. Jablonski,M. Fustic, R. Strobl, and J. H. Van der Berg, 2015, Fluvial to tidal transition zone facies in the McMurray Formation (Christina River, Alberta, Canada), with emphasis on the reflection of flow intensity in bottomset architecture, In. Developments in Sedimentology, Fluvial-Tidal Sedimentology, Eds. Philip J. Ashworth, James L. Best, Daniel R. Parsons, Elsevier, p. 445-480. doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-63529-7.00019-5
  11. Fustic, M., R. Strobl, B. Jablonski, Go Take a Hike – MacKay River Gauging Station near Ft. MacKay, AB, 2014, Reservoir, p. 25-27.
  12. Fustic, M., B. Bennett, H. Huang, T. Oldenburg, S.R. Hubbard, and S. Larter, 2013, Impact of oil-water contacts, reservoir (dis)continuity, and reservoir characteristics on spatial distribution of water, gas, and high-water – low-bitumen saturated zones and variability of bitumen properties in Athabasca oil sands deposits, In. “Heavy Oil/Bitumen Petroleum Systems in Alberta & Beyond”, Eds. F. J. Hein, J. Sutter, D. A. Leckie, and S. Larter, AAPG Memoir, p. 163-205.    
  13. Fustic, M., D. Cadiou, D. Thurston, A. Al-Dliwe, and D.A. Leckie, 2013, Reservoir modeling by constraining stochastic simulation to deterministically interpreted three-dimensional geobodies: Case study from Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Long Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage project, Northeast Alberta, Canada, in F. J. Hein, D. Leckie, S. Larter, and J. R. Suter, eds., Heavy oil and oil sand petroleum systems in Alberta and beyond: AAPG Studies in Geology 64, p. 565 – 604 
  14. Fustic, M., B. Bennett, H. Huang, and S. Larter, 2012, Differential entrapment of charged oil – New insights on McMurray Formation oil trapping mechanisms, Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 36, p. 50-69.
  15. Fustic, M., S.R. Hubbard, R. Spencer, D.G. Smith, D.A. Leckie, B. Bennett, and S. Larter, 2012, Recognition of down-valley translation in tidally influenced meandering fluvial deposits, Athabasca Oil Sands (Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada, Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 29, p. 219-232. 
  16. Fustic, M., B. Bennett, J.J. Adams, H. Huang, B. MacFarlene, D.A. Leckie and S. Larter, 2011, Bitumen and Heavy Oil Geochemistry: a tool for distinguishing barriers from baffles in oil sands reservoirs, Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 5, p. 295-316. 
  17. Hubert C., T.P.B. Oldenburg, M. Fustic, N.D. Gray, S.R. Larter, A.K. Rowan, R. Seshadri, A. Sherry, R. Swainsbury, G. Voordouw, J.K. Voordouw, and I.M. Head, 2011, Massive dominance of Epsilonproteobacteria in formation waters from heavily biodegraded Canadian oil sands, Journal of Microbiology, p. 387-404. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02521.x).
  18. Hubbard, M. S., D.G. Smith, H. Nielsen, D.A. Leckie, M. Fustic, R.J. Spencer, and L. Bloom, 2011, Seismic Geomorphology and Sedimentology of a Tidally Influenced River Deposit, Lower Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada, AAPG Bulletin, p. 1123-1145.
  19. Smith, G. D., S.M. Hubbard, J. Lavigne, D.A. Leckie, and M. Fustic, 2011, Stratigraphy of Counter Point Bar and Eddy Accretion Deposits in Low Energy Meander Belts of the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), Northeast Alberta, Canada, SEPM Special Publication 97, 2011, p. 143-152.
  20. Oldenburg, T.B.P., S.R. Larter, J.J. Adams, K.A. Rowan, A. Brown, I.M. Head, A.A. Grigoriyan, G. Voordouw, M. Fustic, and C. Hubert, C., 2009, Methods for recovery of microorganisms and intact microbial polar lipids (IPLs) from oil-water mixtures –lab experiments and natural well-head fluids, Analytical Chemistry, v.  81, p 4130–4136.
  21. Smith, D.G., S.M. Hubbard, D.A. Leckie and M. Fustic, 2009, Counter Point Bars in Modern Meandering Rivers: Recognition of Morphology, Lithofacies and Reservoir Significance, Examples from Peace River, AB, Canada, Sedimentology, v. 56, p. 1655–1669.
  22. Fustic, M., L. Skulski, D. Vanhooren, P. Bessette, D. Hinks, L. Bellman, and D.A. Leckie, 2008, Data Integration Improves Geological Mapping and Reservoir Characterization of Oil Sands Reservoir, World Oil Magazine, vol. 229, No. 10, p. 117-122. 
  23. Bennett, B., M. Fustic, P. Farrimond, H. Huang, and S.R. Larter, 2007, “25-Norhopanes: Formation during biodegradation of petroleum in the subsurface”, Organic GeochemistryOrganic Geochemistry, v. 37, p. 787-797.
  24. Fustic, M. 2007, Stratigraphic Dip Analysis – A Novel Application for Detailed Geological Modeling of Point Bars, and Predicting Bitumen Grade, McMurray Formation, Muskeg River Mine, Northeast Alberta, Natural Resources Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, p. 31-43. 

Please visit my Research-Gate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milovan_Fustic

Emil Bayramov
Dr. Emil Bayramov
Assistant Professor
Phone : +7 (7172) 706372
Education
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  1. 2018 to date, Habilitation in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies, Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany
  2. 2016-2017, Fulbright Postdoctoral Scientific Scholar in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies, American University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Science, USA 
  3. 2009-2013, Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies), Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute for Cartography, Germany 
  4. 2007-2009, M.Sc. in Geographical Information Science; Lund University, Department of Physical Geography & Ecosystem Science, Sweden
  5. 2007-2008, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow (Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Urban Studies & Planning, USA, Leadership and Professional Certification awarded by the President of the United States and MIT
  6. Pre-academic Development of Academic and Scientific Research Skills and Professional English, University of Oregon (United States)
  7. 2003-2006, M.Sc. in Geography (Specialization: Landscape Sciences) (Honor), Baku State University, Faculty of Physical Geography, Azerbaijan
  8. 1998-2003, B.Sc. in Physical Geography (Honor), Baku State University, Faculty of Physical Geography, Azerbaijan
Employment history
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  1. 2019 to date: Assistant Professor in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies, School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
  2. 2015 to date: Senior Geospatial Information Specialist, BP Oil and Gas Company (Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Region); Additional Responsibility: GIS Technical Specialist of AGT Region Emergency Response & Crisis Management and Global Mutual Response Teams
  3. 2008 to 2015: Geographical Information Systems Coordinator, BP Oil and Gas Company (Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Region); Additional Responsibility: GIS Technical Specialist of AGT Region Emergency Response & Crisis Management and Global Mutual Response Teams
  4. 2018 to date, Geospatial Data Specialist with Expertise in Biodiversity Conservation, Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Development, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Global Vetted Expert Roster
  5. 2016-2017, Fulbright Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies, American University Washington DC, USA 
  6. 2013-2017, Postdoctoral Scientist in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  7. 2006 to date, Visiting Lecturer and Senior Scientific Researcher in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies, Geography Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Caspian Sea Problems, Azerbaijan
  8. 2007-2008, Hubert H. Humphrey Professional Leadership Fellow (Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies applied for Urban and Regional Planning), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University (Centre of Geographic Analysis), USA
  9. 2017-2018, Visiting Lecturer and Scientific Researcher (Consultancy in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies), German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Baku State University, Azerbaijan
  10. 2013-2015, Geospatial and Remote Sensing Consultant, Azercosmos (Azerbaijan Space Agency, Satellite Operator in Caucasus) and Airbus Defence & Space 
  11. 2003-2007, Geographical Information Systems Senior Specialist, Department of GIS / Engineering, RISK Scientific Production Company, Azerbaijan
  12. 1999-2003, GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist, State Aero Geodesy Enterprise of the State Committee on Land and Cartography, Azerbaijan 
Awards/Honours
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  1. Journal of Operational Oceanography 2018 Denny Medal from IMAREST from UK, 2019 (London)
  2. Fulbright Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies 2016 (US Department of State) 
  3. US Department Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program 2007-2008 for one year Academic and Professional Development in the field of GIS/Urban and Regional Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  4. Chartered Remote Sensing Professional, Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) (11/2017) 
  5. Chartered Geographer (GIS) status for Royal Geographic Society (RGS) (03/10/2011)
  6. Research Award from the World Federation of Scientists 2007-2008
  7. Travel Award for the UN/India Workshop on the Use of Earth Observation Data in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction: Sharing the Asian Experience, 8-10 March 2016, Hyderabad, India
  8. UNOOSA Travel Award for the participation at United Nations/Belarus Workshop on Space Technology Applications for Socio-Economic Benefits (11-15 November 2013, Minsk, Belarus)
  9. European Space Agency Travel Award for Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science (28 October 2014 - 31 October 2014, Frascati, Italy)
  10. NATO Advanced Study Institute on Energy Security Travel Award (October 4-11, 2015), Antalya, Turkey
  11. NISA – NATO International Summer Session School of (June 27-July 1, 2016), Baku, Azerbaijan
  12. NISA – NATO International Winter Session School of Cyber Security (January 11-15), Baku, Azerbaijan
  13. Travel Funding for attendance of GIST Startup Training, April 20-23, 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia
  14. ISPRS Geospatial Week Travel Award 2015, La Grande Motte, France
  15. 6th International Summer School in Radar/SAR at Fraunhofer FHR (4-11, July 2014)
  16. Bursary from Royal Geographical Society for attendance of GISRUK 2012
Research Interests
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  1. Geospatial and Remote Sensing Technologies
  2. Geological and Geotechnical Hazards & Risk Assessment
  3. Natural Resources Management
  4. Environmental Modeling and Analysis
  5. Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Management of Marine and Onshore Petroleum and Gas Industry
  6. Marine and Inland Oil Spill Response and Disaster Management
  7. Geological Remote Sensing
  8. Coastal Mapping of Environmental and Social Sensitivities 
  9. Protection of Critical Energy Infrastructure and Energy Security 
  10. Land Use Land Cover Modeling and Change Detection
  11. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
  12. Urban and Regional Planning
  13. Water Resources Management
  14. Environmental and Social Management
  15. Geospatial Big Data Analytics and Data Science
  16. Natural Hazards and Disaster Management
Publications
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  1. Bayramov E., Buchroithner M., Kada M. (2020). Quantitative Assessment of Ground Deformations for the Risk Management of Petroleum and GasPipelines Using Radar Interferometry. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 11(1): 2540-2568 
  2. Bayramov E., Buchroithner M., Kada M. (2020). Radar Remote Sensing to Supplement Pipeline Surveillance Programs through Measurements of Surface Deformations and Identification of Geohazard Risks. Remote Sensing. 2020, 12(23), 3934.
  3. Bayramov E., Buchroithner M.,  Kada M. &  Bayramov R. (2020): Quantitative assessment of ground deformation risks, controlling factors and movement trends for onshore petroleum and gas industry using satellite radar remote sensing and spatial statistics, Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards (https://doi.org/10.1080/17499518.2020.1806334) 
  4. Bayramov E., Schlager P., Kada M., Buchroithner M.,  Bayramov R. (2019). Quantitative assessment of climate change impacts onto predicted erosion risks and their spatial distribution within the landcover classes of the Southern Caucasus using GIS and remote sensing. Model. Earth Syst. Environ., 5: 659
  5. Bayramov E., Davis J. et al. (2019). Space Unmanned Air Systems Support the Optimization of Exploration and Reservoir Development Activities in AGT Region, Proceeding of SPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference, 2019. SPE-198412-RU.
  6. Bayramov E., Knee K., KadaM. & BuchroithnerM. (2018). Using multiple satellite observations to quantitatively assess and model oil pollution and predict risks and consequences to shoreline from oil platforms in the Caspian Sea, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 24:6, 1501-1514
  7. Bayramov E., Kada M. & Buchroithner M. (2018) Monitoring oil spill hotspots, contamination probability modelling and assessment of coastal impacts in the Caspian Sea using SENTINEL-1, LANDSAT-8, RADARSAT, ENVISAT and ERS satellite sensors, Journal of Operational Oceanography, 11:1, 27-43
  8. Bayramov E., Buchroithner M., Bayramov R. (2016). Quantitative assessment of 2014–2015 land-cover changes in Azerbaijan using object-based classification of LANDSAT-8 timeseries. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2:35
  9. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M., and Bayramov, R. (2016). Multi-temporal assessment of ground cover restoration and soil erosion risks along petroleum & gas pipelines in Azerbaijan using GIS and Remote Sensing. Environmental Earth Sciences. 75:256
  10. Bayramov E., Buchroithner M. (2016): Modelling of oil spill frequency, leak sources and contamination probability in the Caspian Sea using multi-temporal SAR images 2006–2010 and stochastic modelling, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 7:3, 1175-1197
  11. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M. F. (2014). Detection of oil spill frequency and leak sources around the Oil Rocks Settlement, Chilov and Pirallahi Islands in the Caspian Sea using multi-temporal ENVISAT radar satellite images 2009-2010. Environmental Earth Sciences. (73)7: 3611-3621
  12. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M., and McGurty, E. (2013). Differences of MMF and USLE Models for Soil Loss Prediction along BTC and SCP Pipelines. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 4(1), 81–96
  13. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M. (2014). Monitoring of Vegetation and Soil Erosion Prediction along Pipelines. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. pp. 148.
  14. Bayramov E. R. (2013). Quantitative Assessment of Vegetation Renaturation and Soil Degradation and their Control by Climate and Ground Factors along Rights-of-Way of Petroleum/Gas Pipelines, Azerbaijan. PhD Dissertation. Dresden University of Technology. Dresden, Germany
  15. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M. &McGurty, E. (2012): Prediction reliability, quantitative differences and spatial variations of erosion models for long-range petroleum and gas infrastructure. Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, 6(4): 252-272
  16. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M. F. &McGurty, E. (2012). Determination of main climate and ground factors controlling vegetation cover regrowth along oil and gas pipelines using multiple, spatial and geographically weighted regression procedures. Environmental Earth Sciences, 66:2047–2062
  17. Bayramov, E., Buchroithner, M. &McGurty, E. (2012). Quantitative assessment of vegetation cover and soil degradation factors within terrain units for planning, monitoring and assessment of renaturation along oil and gas pipelines. Geocarto International, 27(7):535-555
  18. de Leeuw J., Rizayeva A., Namazov E., Bayramov E., Marshall M. T., Etzold J., Neudert R. (2019). International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 78: 66-76
  19. Bayramov E. R. (2009). Environmental Monitoring of Bio-Restoration activities using GIS and Remote Sensing. MSc Dissertation. Lund University. Lund, Sweden
George Paul Mathews SMG
Dr. George Mathews
Assistant Professor
Phone : 8 (7172) 70-94-20
Education
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  • 1. PhD (2009-2016), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA
  • 2. MSc in Geology (2007-2009) Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, INDIA
  • 3. BSc in Geology (2004-2007) University of Calicut, Kerala, INDIA
  • Publications
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      Articles in Peer Reviewed SCI Journals

      1. Bhattacharya, S., Santosh M., Zhang, Z., Huang, H., Banerjee, A., George, P.M., Sajeev, K., 2014. Imprints of Archean to Neoproterozoic crustal processes in the Madurai block, Southern India: Hf isotope perspective from zircons. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 88, 1-10. (Journal Impact factor 2017: 2.86). ISSN:1367-9120

      2. George P.M., Santosh, M., Nengsong, C., Nandakumar, V., Itaya, T., Sonali, M.K., Smruti, R.P., Sajeev, K., 2015. Cryogenian Magmatism and Crustal Reworking in the Southern Granulite Terrane, India. International Geology Review 57, 112-133. (Journal Impact factor 2017: 2.87). ISSN: 0020-6814 (Print).

      3. George P.M., Sajeev, K; 2015.Crustal Evolution of Kolli-massif, southern India. Journal of Indian Institute of Science 95,187-201(Journal Impact Factor 2016: 0.8). ISSN No: 0970-4140 Coden-JIISAD.

      4. Ghose, N.C., George P.M., Pandey, S. 2016.Mineralogical Study of Almandine-Hercynite-Muscovite-Ilmenite-Hornblendite Dykes from the Southern Margin of the Gondwana Graben at Richughuta in Palamau District of the Eastern Indian Shield. Acta Geologica Sinica 90, 97-98 (Journal Impact Factor 2017: 2.5) ISSN No: 1755-6724

      5. George P.M., K. Sajeev., M. Santosh., M. Zhai. 2019. Granulite-grade garnet pyroxenite from the Kolli-massif, southern India: Implications for Archean crustal evolution. Lithos 342-343, 499-512 (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.39). ISSN No: 0024-4937.

      6. He, H-L., Wang, Y., Bao, Z., George, P.M., Sajeev, K., Guo, J., Zhai, M.G., Lai, C-K. 2020. Role of magma injection and mixing in the formation of chromitite in Archean anorthosites: Evidence from the Sittampundi complex, southern India. Precambrian Research 350, 105914. (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.9). ISSN No: 0301-9268.

      7. He, H-L., Zhang, C., Zhai, M.G., Lu, J., George, P.M., Sajeev, K., Rajkumar, P., Zhao, Y., Ao W., Gou, L., Hu, Y.2021. Lower crust-mantle interactions in the massif-type anorthosite formation: New evidence from zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopes of the Neoproterozoic Kadavur Complex, southern India. Lithos 380-381, 105836. (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.39). ISSN No: 0024-4937.

      8. Wang, Y., Zhai, M.G., Hailong, H., George. P.M., Sajeev, K., Jiao, S., Liu, B., Guo, J. 2021. Incipient charnockite formation in the Trivandrum Block, southern India: Evidence from melt-related reaction textures and phase equilibria modeling. Lithos 380-381, 105825. (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.39). ISSN No: 0024-4937.

      9. He, H-L., Wang, Y., George. P.M., Sajeev, K., Guo, J., Zhai, M.G. 2021. Formation of ~2.5 Ga Sittampundi anorthosite complex in southern India: Implications to lower crustal stabilization of Dharwar Craton. Precambrian Research 354, 106012. (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.9). ISSN No: 0301-9268.

      10. Zhou F., Gou L-L., Zhai M-G., Zhang C-L., George P.M., Lu Js., Zhao Y., Ao WH. 2021. Petrology and zircon U–Pb dating of the Neoarchean scapolite-garnet calc-silicate from the Namakkal Block of the Southern Granulite Terrain, India, and their geological implications. Acta Petrologica Sinica 37, 1213-1234 (in Chinese with English abstract; Impact Factor 2020: 1.73). ISSN No: 1000-0569.

      11. Athira P.G., Dunkley D J., George, P.M., Zhai, M., Zhou,L., Ayisha V.A. Beach placers of southwestern India: An archive of Precambrian supercontinent growth histories. 2021, Precambrian Research 364, 106342 (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.9). ISSN No: 0301-9268.

      12. Zhao, Y., Zhai, M-G., Zhang, C-L., Sun, Y., Gou L-L., Lu, Js., Sajeev, K., George, P.M., Ao, W-H, Hu, Y., X, X-F. Zircon-monazite geochronology and P-T evolution of the Sargur Greenstone Belt: Implications for the end-Archean tectonics of the Dharwar Craton in southern India. 2021. Precambrian Research 364, 106384 (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.9). ISSN No: 0301-9268.

      13. Ao, W., Zhai M-G., Zhao Y., Zhang C-L., Sun, Y., George P.M., Sajeev, K., Gou L-L., Lu, J., Hu Y. Paleo-Mesoarchean crustal growth and reworking in the western Dharwar Craton, southwestern India: Evidence from trondhjemitic gneiss and granitic gneiss. 2021. Precambrian Research 367, 106428 (Journal Impact Factor 2019: 3.9). ISSN No: 0301-9268.

      14. Durgalakshmi, Williams, I.S., Sajeev, K., Reddy, H.D., Satish-Kumar, M., Jöns, N., Malaviarachchi S.P.K., Samuel, V.O., George, P.M. The timing, duration and conditions of UHT metamorphism in remnants of the former eastern Gondwana. Journal of Petrology doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egab068.

      15. Gou,L-L., Zhai,M-G., Zhang,C-L., George, P.M, Huang,K., Xu,X-F., Lu,J-S., Zhao,Y., Ao,W-H., Hu,Y-H., Zhou, F., Validation of clinopyroxene-garnet magnesium isotope geothermometer to constrain the peak metamorphic temperature in ultrahigh-temperature ultramafic-mafic granulites. 2021. American Mineralogist (just accepted).

      16. Gou L-L., Zhai, M-G., Zhang C-L., George, P.M., Sajeev, K., Lu, J., Zhao, Y., Ao, W., Hu, Y., Zi, J-W. Ultrahigh temperature metamorphism and isobaric cooling of Neoarchean garnet pyroxenite in the lower crust of the Dharwar Craton, India: phase equilibrium modelling and SHRIMP zircon U–Pb dating. Journal of Metamorphic Geology (just accepted).

      Upcoming Publication(s) (Under Revision or Review in Peer Reviewed SCI Journals)

      1. Athira,P.G., Sajeev,K., George,P.M., Zhai M-G, Zhou,L-G., Razakamanana,T., Windley B. F.,Ayisha, V.A., Tracing remnants of Ediacaran I- and S-type granitoids from beach placers in SE Madagascar Current Status: Under revision in Geological Society of America Bulletin Date of Submission: May 4, 2021

      International conferences / symposiums

      1. George, P. M., Sajeev, K. & Itaya, T Metamorphism of Archaean Iron formations from the Salem-Namakkal Region, Tamil Nadu, southern India, Granulites and Granulites Symposium, Hyderabad, January, 2013.

      2. Ishwar-Kumar, C., George, P.M., Adachi, T., Nakano, N., Osanai, Y., Itaya, T. & Sajeev, K. (2013) Evolution of mafic and calc granulites from Coorg, southern India. Granulites and Granulites- January 2013, Hyderabad, India.

      3. George, P.M., Itaya, T., Horie, K., Hokada , T., Satish-Kumar , M. & Sajeev, K. (2013) Evolution of Archean high-pressure granulites from the Namakkal Block, southern India, Japan Geological Union Meeting, Makhuhari Messe (Tokyo), May, 2013.

      4. George, P.M., Metamorphosed Iron Formations from Namakkal Block southern India. International Conference of ‘Sedimentary Processes and Metallogeny through Time’, Dharwad Jan 21-23, 2014.

      5. George P.M., Wilde, S.A., Satish-Kumar, M., & Sajeev, K., (2014) Continental arc accretion and crustal evolution at the end of the Archean in southern India. 7th International SHRIMP Conference, Tachikawa, Japan Sep 25- 30, 2014.

      6. George P.M., Sajeev, K., Satish-Kumar, M., Harlov, D.E., Hari, R., & Zhai, M-G., (2018) Oxygen Release to the Mantle Wedge during the Metamorphism of Iron Formations in the Archean. Goldschmidt Conference 2018, Boston, MA, USA, August 12-17, 2018.

      7. George P.M., & Zhai, M-G., (2020) Chromian-spinel Chemistry of a Mesoarchean Metasomatized Ultramafic section from southern India and its Implications to the Crustal Processes. Goldschmidt Virtual Conference 2020.

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    Dr. Azam Soltani Dehnavi
    Assistant Professor
    Education
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    1. 2012-2017 - Ph.D. in Economic Geology and Applied Geochemistry, the University of New Brunswick
    2. 2007-2010 - Master of Science in Igneous Petrology, Tarbiat Modares University
    3. 2000-2004 - Bachelor of Science in Geology, the University of Isfahan, Isfahan
    Employment history
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    1. August 2022 – till present - Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
    2. 2019 - 2021 - Professor/Investigator, Yachay Tech University, Imbabura, Ecuador
    3. 2018 – Lecturer, University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Earth Sciences Centre
    4. 2012 - 2017 - Teaching assistant, University of New Brunswick, Department of Earth Sciences
    5. 2012 - 2017 - Research Assistant, University of New Brunswick, Department of Earth Sciences
    6. 2008 - 2012 - Assistant curator, Natural History Museum, Isfahan
    Awards/Honours
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      Awards and Fellowships
    1. [Fall, 2016] Part-Time Merit Award, UNB
    2. [Spring, 2015] R. W. J. Wright graduate fellowship, UNB
    3. [Aug. 2015] SGA Travel Grant: Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits; Travel grant to present Ph.D. work at the SGA international conference in Nancy, France
    4. [Sep. 2013] SEG Travel Grant: Society of Economic Geologists; Travel grant to present Ph.D. work at the SEG international conference in Whistler, BC, Canada
    5. [2012-2015] Funded Ph.D. project by NRCan Targeted Geoscience Initiative IV program (TGI4), CA
    6. [2012-2015] International differential fee award, University of New Brunswick, CA
    7. [2007-2010] Top student among M.Sc. petrology students of geology department at TMU
    8. [2007] The 13th ranked in national entry examination for enrolment in M.Sc. level (out of more than a million participants)
    Publications
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      Publications
    1. Soltani Dehnavi, A., 2022, Porphyry-Epithermal Metallogenic Belts of Ecuador: A New Frontier in Exploration for Copper and Gold, (Published proceeding article, SGA conference).
    2. Soltani Dehnavi, A., 2021, Pyrite composition as an exploration tool for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, ProEXPLO, Peru [Talk, Published proceeding article].
    3. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., Lentz, D.R., McClenaghan, S.H., and Walker, J.A., 2019, Chlorite-White Mica Pairs’ Composition as a Micro-Chemical Guide to Fingerprint Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada. Minerals, v. 9(2), p. 125. Minerals IF 2.380.
    4. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Micro-Geochemical Research in Mineral Exploration, Case study of massive sulfides of Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada. 1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, (CAJG), Hammamet, Tunisia, 2018, Springer. Arabian Journal of Geosciences IF 1.24.
    5. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., McFarlane, C.R.M., and Walker, J.A., 2018, Patterns of fluid- mobile element incorporation in sulfides from the volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist, v. 56 (5), 745- 761. The Canadian Mineralogist IF 1.398.
    6. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., and Walker, J.A., 2018, Quantification of fluid-mobile elements in white mica by LA-ICP-MS: a potential micro chemical vectoring tool in VMS exploration. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 188, 290- 307. IF 3.352.
    7. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., and Lentz, D.R., and Walker, J.A., 2018, Assessment of pyrite composition by LA-ICP-MS techniques from massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: from textural and chemical evolution to its application as a vectoring tool for the exploration of VMS deposits. Ore Geology Reviews. 92, 656-671. Ore Geology Reviews IF 3.868.
    8. McFarlane, C.R.M., Soltani Dehnavi, A., and Lentz, D.R., 2016, Pb-Isotopic Study of Galena by LA-Q-ICP-MS: Testing a New Methodology with Applications to Base-Metal Sulfide Deposits. Minerals, 6, 96; doi: 10.3390/min6030096. Minerals IF 2.380.
    9. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., 2015, LA-ICP-MS analysis of volatile-trace elements in massive sulfides and host rocks of selected VMS deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick: methodology and application to exploration, In: Targeted Geoscience Initiative 4: Contributions to the Understanding of Volcanogenic Massive sulfide Deposit Genesis and Exploration Methods Development, (eds.) J.M. Peter and P. Mercier- Langevin; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7853.
      1. Conference Presentations
      2. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Krawczynski, M., 2022, El Reventador: An unusual active volcano in the back-arc of Ecuador, Goldschmidt conference, Hawaii, US [Submitted Abstract].
      3. Soltani Dehnavi, A., 2022, Two metallogenic belts in Northern Ecuador: Geology overview and field relationship to mineralization systems, SEG conference, Denver, Colorado, US [Submitted Abstract].
      4. Soltani Dehnavi, A., 2021, Critical Metal Distribution and Partitioning between Co Existing Sulfides of the Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick, Canada, Goldschmidt conference, Lyon, FR, [Accepted Abstract].
      5. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Mineral Geochemistry Research: New Insights into Ore-genesis and Exploration, SEG conference, Santiago, Chile, 2019 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      6. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., Walker, J.A., 2017, Tell-tale minerals from massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada and their application in geochemical exploration approaches. Goldschmidt conference, Paris, FR, August, 2017 [Talk, Published Abstract].
      7. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., and Lentz, D.R, 2017, LA-ICP-MS systematics in sulfides: challenges, developments, and perspectives. AGS conference, Fredericton, NB, CA [Talk, Published Abstract].
      8. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., 2015, Volatile-Element Haloes of Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick, Canada: Implications of Mineral Micro-Chemical Vectors by Laser Ablation ICP-MS Systematics in VMS Exploration. SEG conference, TAS, AUS [Poster, Published Abstract].
      9. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Rahbari, H., 2015, Persian Turquoise of Neyshabour Mine, NE, Iran: Implication for Mineral Chemical Variations and Genesis. SEG conference, TAS, AUS [Poster, Published Abstract].
      10. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., 2015, Sulfide compositional systematics using LA-ICP-MS: insights into distribution of volatile elements and application in VMS exploration. SGA conference, Nancy, FR [Talk, Published Abstract].
      11. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., 2015, Pyrite: fool’s gold or not? Insights into the VMS deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp and potential use as vectoring tool in exploration of VMS deposits. Goldschmidt conference, Prague, CZ, August, 2015 [Talk, Published Abstract].
      12. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., 2015, Trace element systematics of the footwall and hanging wall alteration associated with volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: Developing LA-ICP-MS methodology for phyllosilicates and its application as geochemical vectoring tool in VMS deposit exploration. AGU-GAC-MAC conference, Montreal, QB, May 2015 [Talk, Published Abstract].
      13. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., and Lentz, D.R, 2015, White mica chemistry by in situ LA-ICP-MS techniques: variation of volatile trace elements and its application in VMS deposit exploration. AGU-GAC-MAC conference, Montreal, QB, May 2015 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      14. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., McFarlane, C.R.M., and McClenaghan, S.H., 2014, In situ LA- ICP-MS systematics for quantitative volatile trace-element measurement in sulfide minerals: from developing methodology to its application in the case study of massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada, Exploration, Mining and Petroleum 4 New Brunswick conference, Fredericton, NB, November 2014 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      15. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., Lentz, D.R., and McClenaghan, S.H., 2014, Variations in phyllosilicate mineral chemistry from the massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: LA-ICP-MS systematics and its application in determination of volatile trace-element suite applicable in VMS exploration, Exploration, Mining and Petroleum New Brunswick conference, Fredericton, NB, November 2014 [Talk, Published Abstract].
      16. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C.R.M., Interpreting volatile trace element signatures in volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: Evidence from a LA-ICP-MS study on sulfide minerals, Goldschmidt conference, Sacramento, US, June 2014 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      17. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., Lentz, D.R., and McClenaghan, S.H., 2014, Variation in sulfide mineral chemistry in massive sulfide deposits, Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: Implication for measuring volatile trace-elements by LA-ICP-MS and its application as a vectoring tool for the exploration of VMS deposits, GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Fredericton, NB, May 2014 [Talk, Published Abstract].
      18. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., McFarlane, C.R.M., and McClenaghan, S.H., 2014, LA ICP-MS trace-element study of pyrite from massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: Determination of volatile trace-element contents in pyrite and its application as a vectoring tool for the exploration of VMS deposits, GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Fredericton, NB, May 2014 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      19. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, and Lentz, D.R., 2013, Sulfide mineral chemistry from the massive sulfide deposits of Bathurst Mining Camp, Canada: implication for volatile trace elements distribution and developing the trace-element exploration vectoring tool, Exploration, Mining and Petroleum New Brunswick conference, Fredericton, NB, November 2013 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      20. Soltani Dehnavi, A., McFarlane, C.R.M., McClenaghan, S.H., and Lentz, D.R., 2013, In situ LA- ICP-MS of sulfide minerals in VMS deposits throughout the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick, Canada: volatile trace-element contents and distribution with implications for their syngenetic to polyphase metamorphic history: Society of Economic Geologists Geoscience for Discovery 2013, Whistler, Canada, September 24-27 2013. [Poster, ePoster, Published Abstract].
      21. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Lentz, D.R., and McFarlane, C., 2012, New insight into the massive sulfide deposits in the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick: implication for volatile element signatures like Cd, Sb, Tl, As, and Hg elements in massive sulfide, Exploration, Mining and Petroleum New Brunswick conference, Fredericton, NB, November 4-6, 2012 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      22. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Rahbari, H.*, Khalatbari-jafari, M., Geochemistry and geodynamic setting of granitic gneisses in Belqeis Mountain, NW Iran, Goldschmidt conference, Sacramento, US, June 2014 [Poster, Published Abstract].
      23. Soltani Dehnavi, A., Ghorbani, M.R., Rashidnejad Omran, N., 2009, Occurrence of the Nb enriched basaltic andesites, NW Neyshabur, Iran, 23th symposium of geoscience, Iran, [Poster in Farsi, Published Abstract].
    Marzhan Baigaliyeva
    Dr. Marzhan Baigaliyeva
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Phone : +7 7172 69 47 80
    Education
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  • PhD in Geographical Information Science (Science) at The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom - Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
  • Master of Arts, Urban Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland - Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
  • Bachelor of Science, Land use planning at East Kazakhstan State Technical University, Kazakhstan - Sep 2006 - Jun 2013
  • Awards/Honours
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  • Nazarbayev University Talap scholarship holder (for PhD program)
  • Bolashak International scholarship holder (for Master program)
  • Research Interests
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  • Regional and catchment-scale hydrology;
  • Potential impacts of climate change on regional-scale hydrology and water resources;
  • Water scarcity and water availability in Central Asia;
  • Remote sensing and GIS techniques in hydrology and climate assessment.
  • Publications
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  • Baigaliyeva, M., Mount, N., Gosling, S., McCowan, S., (2019) Development of a water balance model for Shortandy, Northern Kazakhstan. EGU General Assembly Conference abstracts.
  • Baigaliyeva, M., Mount, N., Gosling, S., McCowan, S., (2019) Development of a water balance model for Shortandy, Northern Kazakhstan. Nottingham Environment Conference abstracts.
  • Yapiyev, V., Sagintayev, Z., Verhoef, A., Kassymbekova, A., Baigaliyeva, M., Zhumabayev, D., Malgazhdar, D., Abudanash, D., Ongas, N. 2017. The changing water cycle: Burabay National Nature Park, Northern Kazakhstan. WIREs Water, 4, e1227.
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