Abelardo Ramirez

Abelardo (Abe) Ramirez has 33 years experience in the fields of geophysical research, geophysical tomography, inversion algorithms, and engineering geology. He has been part of a team of pioneers who developed, evaluated and applied various geophysical tomography techniques at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory including electrical resistance tomography (ERT), electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and high frequency electromagnetic (radio) tomography. He has helped develop statistical inversion techniques used for a variety of geophysical problems, performed research pertaining to the tracking of fluids, remote leak detection, monitoring of oil field production, detection of unexploded ordnance, detection of subsurface contamination, nuclear waste disposal, contaminant remediation, and in situ coal gasification. He has published approximately 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, been awarded seven patents and has presented results at numerous research conferences. Mr. Ramirez has a M. S. in Engineering Geology from Purdue University and a B. S. Geology, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.