Dr. Marion Miensopust – Research Scientist
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Geophysics Section
5 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353-1-653-5147 x243
Fax: +353-1-443-0575
Email: marion-at-cp.dias.ie
Research Interests
- 3D modelling and inversion of magnetotelluric data (including approaches dealing with distortion)
- MT studies in southern Africa (as part of SAMTEX); especially the Zimbabwe craton region including the Okavango Dyke Swarm
- Investigation of the resistivity structure of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, Iceland
Qualifications
- 1998 – 2004:
Geophysics (and Physics). Institut fuer Geophysik, Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster, Germany - 2004 – 2005:
Scientific Assistant. Institut fuer Geophysik, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany.
2005 -2010:
PhD at Dublin Institute for Advance Studies. Registered at the National University of Ireland, Galway. - 2010 – Present:
Post-Doctoral scholarship at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and graduate teaching assistant at Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany
See personal homepage for further details
Publications
- Colin G. Farquharson and Marion P. Miensopust (2011) Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of magnetotelluric data with a divergence correction. Journal of Applied Geophysics 75, 699 – 710.
- Miensopust, M., and A.G. Jones (2011). Artefacts of isotropic inversion applied to magnetotelluric data from an anisotropic Earth, Geophysical Journal International 187, 677 – 689, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05157.x
- Miensopust, M. P., A. G. Jones, M. R. Muller, X. Garcia, and R. L. Evans (2011), Lithospheric structures and Precambrian terrane boundaries in northeastern Botswana revealed through magnetotelluric profiling as part of the Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 116, B02401, doi:10.1029/2010JB007740.
- Muller, M.R., A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, H.S. Grütter, C. Hatton, X. Garcia, M.P. Hamilton, M.P. Miensopust, P. Cole, T. Ngwisanyi, D. Hutchins, C.J. Fourie, H. A. Jelsma, T. Aravanis, W. Pettit,S.J. Webb, J. Wasborg and The SAMTEX Team (2009). Lithospheric structure, evolution and diamond prospectivity of the Rehoboth Terrane and western Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: constraints from broadband magnetotellurics. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.023.
- Jones, A.G., R.L. Evans, M.R. Muller, M.P. Hamilton, M.P. Miensopust, X. Garcia, P. Cole, T. Ngwisanyi, D. Hutchins, C.J.S Fourie, H. Jelsma, T. Aravanis, W. Pettit, S. Webb, J. Wasborg, and The SAMTEX Team (2009). Area selection for diamonds using magnetotellurics: Examples from southern Africa. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.011.
