Dr. Satish Maurya
Department of Earth Sciences
smaurya [at] iitb.ac.in
Associate Professor
Dept. of Earth Sciences
IIT Bombay, Powai-400076
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Post-Doc
Seismological Laboratory, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Mentor: Barbara Romanowicz, Professor of Geophysics
Project: “Characterizing sources of infragravity waves and the earth’s hum using data from the Cascadia Amphibious Array”
Dec. 2016–Nov. 2018
- Ph.D. in Geophysics
Laboratoire de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
Advisor: Prof. Jean-Paul Montagner
Thesis: “Deep Structure of the Indian Continent”
2012-2016 - Research Scholar in Seismology Laboratory
Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Advisor: Prof. G. Mohan
Project: “Crustal Shear Wave Velocity Structure between NW India through Waveform Modelling”
2011-2012 - Master of Science in Applied Geophysics
Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Advisor: Prof. G. Mohan
Thesis: “Imaging of Sub-Basaltic Sediments Using Receiver Function”
2009-2011 - Bachelor of Science in Physics (Hons.)
Faculty of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India
2006-2009
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Project: “Characterizing sources of infragravity waves and the earth’s hum using data from the Cascadia Amphibious Array”
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz and Takaaki Taira
Description: Investigating the relationship of ocean storms, infragravity waves, microseisms, and Earth’s “hum” using data from the Cascadia Amphibious Array (CAA), in combination with other very broadband ocean-bottom stations near the west coast of California, to (1) Analysis of seismic array noise data, power spectral density, locating “seismic hum”. (2) how seismic hum are related in time and space to the corresponding storms and microseism and infragravity wave sources, and quantify coupling efficiency and radiation pattern.
CIDER-16, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Project: “Lithosphere-Group”
Research Group : Barbara Romanowicz (UC Berkeley & IPGP), Roberta Rudnick (UCSB), Catherine McCammon (BGI, University of Bayreuth), Lars Stixrude (University College London), Louis Moresi (Univ. of Melbourne), Jean-Paul Montagner (IPGP), Ulrich Faul (MIT), Satish Maurya (UC Berkeley & IPGP, seismology), Li Zeng (Harvard, exoplanets), Joshua Garber (UCSB, petrology/geochemistry), Hongluo Zhang (USTC, geochemistry), Megan Duncan (Carnegie Science, geochemistry), Jean-Alexis Hernandez (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Mineral Physics).
Description: High shear-wave velocities in the deep roots of cratons provide constraints on the abundance of diamond and eclogite in the sub-cratonic mantle. Review on various geophysical and petrologic constraints on the nature of cratonic roots (seismic velocities, lithology/mineralogy, electrical conductivity, gravity).
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
Project: “Deep Structure of the Indian Continent””
Advisor: Jean-Paul Montagner and Ravi Kumar
Description: To improve understanding of the evolution of the Indian shield and fast drifting of the Indian plate towards Asia, we derived the (1) The imaging of large scale lateral heterogeneities of velocity and anisotropy in the lithosphere and upper mantle. (2) Spectral Element Method (RegSEM) applied in tomography model to validate the 3D tomography seismic model
1. 4th QUEST workshop on “Passive imaging and monitoring using seismic noise and more classic seismic inverse problems for structure and source” in Bénodet, Brittany, France.
• Poster presentation on “Upper Mantle Tomography of the Indian Continent”.
19th May, 2013 (1-week)
2. Summer school program, “Advanced Seismic Imaging of the Lithosphere” at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
1st Sept., 2014 (1-week)
3. 1st COST action TIDES (TIme DEpendent Seismology), “How to get the best out of seismic data? From instrument to simulation” Bologne, Italy.
• Poster presentation on “Deep Structure of the Indian Continent”.
1st June, 2015 (1-week)
4. CIDER-16 Summer Program, “Flow in the Deep Earth”, KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
• Poster presentation on the lithospheric structure of the Indian continent and Group Research Collaboration on the Archean Lithosphere of the Earth.
26th June, 2016 (4-weeks)
5. 2nd COST action TIDES, “Seismic noise: from generation to interferometry”, Sesimbra, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Poster presentation on “Surface Wave Tomography for the Indian Continent”.
19th Sept., 2016 (1-week)
1. Maurya, S., J.-P. Montagner, M. R. Kumar, E. Stutzmann, S. Kiselev, G. Burgos, N. P. Rao, and D. Srinagesh (2016), Imaging the lithospheric structure beneath the Indian continent, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121(10), 7450–7468, doi:10.1002/2016JB012948.
2. Nita, B., S. Maurya, and J.-P. Montagner (2016), Anisotropic tomography of the European lithospheric structure from surface wave studies, Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems, doi:10.1002/2015GC006243.
3. Mazzullo, A., E. Stutzmann, J.-P. Montagner, S. Kiselev, S. Maurya, G. Barruol, and K. Sigloch (2017), Anisotropic Tomography Around La Réunion Island from Rayleigh Waves, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/2017JB014354.
4. Garber J., S. Maurya, J.-A. Hernandez, M. S. Duncan, L. Zeng, H. Zhang, U. Faul, C. McCammon, J.-P. Montagner, L. Moresi, B. Romanowicz, R. L. Rudnick, L. Stixrude, Multidisciplinary Constraints on the Abundance of Diamond and Eclogite in the Cratonic Lithosphere, Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems, 19(7), 2062–2086, doi:10.1029/2018GC007534.
5. Maurya, S., T. Taira, and B. Romanowicz (2019), Location of seismic “hum” sources following storms in the north Pacific ocean., Geochemistry, Geophys. Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2018GC008112.
6. Maurya S., A. Sibrant, J.-P. Montagner, A. Davaille, E. Stutzmann, M. R. Kumar, J. Besse, The Indian continental keel and its interaction with mantle plume, in preparation.
1. BSL (Berkeley Seismology Lab) Fall seminar 2017, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. 31st Oct. 2017
• Oral: “Imaging of the Indian cratonic keel and its role on fast drift of the Indian plate, Twist in the tale!”
2. GRC (Gordon Research Conference: Interior of the Earth), “Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of Earth’s Deep Interior, from Formation to Today”, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA. 4th June, 2017 (1-week)
• Poster: “Lithospheric layering in the Indian cratons from Surface wave studies”
3. 2016 AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. 12th Dec., 2016 (1-week)
• Poster: “Anisotropic Structure beneath the Indian Continent from Surface wave studies”
4. 2016 CIDER Summer Program “Flow in the Deep Earth”, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 26th June, 2016 (4-weeks)
• Poster: “Lithospheric structure of the Indian continent”
5. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14th Dec. 2015 (1-week)
• Poster: “Imaging Lithospheric Structure beneath the Indian continent”
6. 2015 CDD (Congrès Des Doctorants), IPG-Paris, France. 23th March, 2015
• Oral: “Deep Structure of the Indian Continent”
7. 2014 ILP Task Force LABPAX (Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Depth PAradoX) workshop held at the Atles Kloster, Hainburg in Austria. 24th April, 2014 (2-days)
• Oral: “Deep Structure of the Indian Continent”
8. 2014 EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria. 27th April, 2014 (1-week)
• Poster: “Deep Structure of the Indian Continent”
9. 2013 & 2014 CDD (Poster on Ph.D. thesis), IPG-Paris, France. March, 2013,14
10. WMMFA National workshop 2012 on “Wavelets, Multi-resolution and Multi-fractal Analyses in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science” held at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay Mumbai. March, 2012 (3-days)
• Oral: “Inversion of Receiver function using Wavelet Transformation”
• Coordinator in Techfest 2009-10, (Infrastructure Department) Leading a team of organizers to conceptualize and execute events, IIT Bombay. 2009-10
• Participated as an Exhibitor in Tech-connect, Techfest 2011-12 from Dept. of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay. 2011-12
Languages
• Hindi (native)
• English (fluent)
Graphical packages
• GMT (Generic Mapping Tools)
• Paraview
• Inkscape
• Surfer
• Corel Draw
Computer skills
• Fortran-77,90 & 95;
• Open-MPI & Parallel programing
• Shell scripting
• Matlab
• Python
• C++
Seismological skills
• Forward/Inverse problem
• Full waveform modelling for 3D real earth models
• Receiver functions/Surface waves modelling
• 3D-Regional/Global seismic tomography
• Ambient noise study, Earth’s Hum, Seismic Interferometry, Imaging of Shallow Earth
• Seismological Software Packages-Synthetic seismograms (Minosy, SPECFEM, RegSEM & cSEM), Seismic Handler, SAC, GSAC, obspy.