Kerry Key

Postdoctoral Res.

Room: Munk Lab 318

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA.

Telephone: (858) 822-2975

Email: kkey@ucsd.edu

Website: http://mahi.ucsd.edu/kkey/

Research Interests:

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

Recent publications: ^†

• Weitemeyer, K., S. Constable, K. Key and J. Behrens, First results from a marine controlled-source electromagnetic survey to detect gas hydrates offshore Oregon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L03304, doi:10.1029/2005GL024896, 2006.
• Orange, A., K. Key and S. Constable, The feasibility of reservoir monitoring using time-lapse marine CSEM, accepted to Geophysics.
• Li, Y., and K. Key. Two-dimensional marine controlled-source electromagnetic modeling, Part 1: an adaptive finite element algorithm, Geophysics, 72(2), WA51-WA62, March-April, 2007.
• Key, K., S. Constable and C. Weiss, Mapping 3D salt using 2D marine MT: Case study from Gemini Prospect, Gulf of Mexico, Geophysics, 71(1), B17-B27, Jan-Feb 2006.
• Key, K., One-dimensional inversion of multi-component, multi-frequency marine CSEM data: Methodology and synthetic studies for resolving thin resistive layers, accepted to Geophysics.
• Key, K., and S. Constable, Broadband marine MT exploration of the East Pacific Rise at 9°50'N, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(22), 2054, doi:10.1029/2002GL016035, 2002.
• Key, K., and C. Weiss. Adaptive finite element modeling using unstructured grids: the 2D magnetotelluric example, Geophysics, 71(6), G291–G299, Nov-Dec 2006.
• Heinson, G., A. White, S. Constable, and K. Key, Marine self-potential exploration. Exploration Geophysics, 30, 1-4, 1999.
• Evans, R. L., S. C. Webb, W. Crawford, C. Golden, K. Key, L. Lewis, H. Miyano, E. Roosen, and D. Doherty, Crustal resistivity structure at 9N on the East Pacific Rise; results of an electromagnetic survey, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 6–1 to 6–4, 2002.
• Constable, S., K. Key and L. Lewis, Mapping offshore sedimentary structure using electromagnetic methods and terrain effects in marine magnetotelluric data, accepted to Geophysical Journal International.