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KEY, KERRY

Assistant Research Geophysicist

Degrees:

• B.S., University of California San Diego
• Ph.D., UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

• Marine magnetotelluric and controlled-source EM exploration
• Electromagnetic modeling with finite elements
• Electromagnetic inversion
• Mid-ocean ridges
• Subduction zones
• Hydrocarbon exploration
• Mantle dynamics
• Marine geophysical instrumentation design

Courses Recently Taught:

• ESYS102: The Solid and Fluid Earth

Honors and Awards:

• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Young Fellow Award, 2004
• Second Annual SIO Visualization Contest, 1st Place, 2003
• SEG Foundation Conoco Scholarship, 2000-2002
• Gerald W. Hohmann Memorial Scholarship, 1998, 1999

Mentoring:

• Wheelock, Brent (Graduate; 2008-)
• Myer, David (Graduate; 2005-)

Heinson, G., A. White, S. Constable, and K. Key, 1999, Marine self-potential exploration: Exploration Geophysics, 30, 1-4.

Key, K. and S. Constable, 2002, Broadband marine MT exploration of the East Pacific Rise at 950’N: Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 11–1 to 11–4.

Evans, R. L., S. C. Webb, W. Crawford, C. Golden, K. Key, L. Lewis, H. Miyano, E. Roosen, and D. Doherty, 2002, Crustal resistivity structure at 9N on the East Pacific Rise; results of an electromagnetic survey: Geophysical Research Letters., 29, 6–1 to 6–4.

Weitemeyer, K., S. Constable, K. Key, and J. Behrens, 2006, First results from a marine controlled-source electromagnetic survey to detect gas hydrates offshore Oregon: Geophysical Research Letters, 33.

Key, K. W., S. C. Constable, and C. J. Weiss, 2006, Mapping 3D salt using the 2D marine magnetotelluric method: Case study from Gemini Prospect, Gulf of Mexico: Geophysics, 71, B17–B27.

Key, K. and C. Weiss, 2006, Adaptive finite element modeling using unstructured grids: the 2D magnetotelluric example: Geophysics, 71, G291–G299.

Li, Y. and K. Key, 2007, 2D marine controlled-source electromagnetic modeling: Part 1— An adaptive finite element algorithm: Geophysics, 72, WA51–WA62.

Constable, S., K. Key and L. Lewis, 2009, Mapping offshore sedimentary structure using electromagnetic methods and terrain effects in marine magnetotelluric data: Geophysical Journal International, 176, 431–442.

Orange, A., K. Key, and S. Constable, 2009, The feasibility of reservoir monitoring using time-lapse marine CSEM: Geophysics, 74, F21–F29.

Key, K., 2009, 1D inversion of multicomponent, multifrequency marine CSEM data: Methodology and synthetic studies for resolving thin resistive layers: Geophysics, 74, F9–F20.

Key, K. and A. Lockwood, 2010, Determining the orientation of marine CSEM receivers using orthogonal Procrustes rotation analysis: Geophysics, 75, F63–F70.