Education

Ph.D.  Condensed Matter Physics, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 1975

M.S.  Physics, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 1970 

B.S. and B.A.  Physics and Mathematics, University of Kansas -- Lawrence, 1969 

Recent Honors

2005, ASCE Maurice Anthony Biot Medal for contributions in poromechanics

2007--, Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Engineering Science

2005--, Advisory Board Member, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

2003--2006, Editorial Board Member, Inverse Problems

2008, American Physical Society, Outstanding Referee

Professional Experience

07-06 to present. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Geological Senior Staff Scientist

09-92 to present. Stanford University, Consulting Professor of Geophysics

07-81 to 07-06. Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Physicist

07-78 to 07-81. AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany NJ, Member of Technical Staff

08-77 to 06-78. New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NSF Postdoc

06-76 to 07-77.  Conoco, Ponca City, OK, Research Geophysicist

03-75 to 05-76. University of Wisconsin -- Madison, Mathematics Research Center, Assistant Scientist

Sabbaticals and Visiting Positions

08-2003 to 03-2004. Geophysics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

04-2003 to 07-2003. Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

08-1995 to 03-1996. Mathematics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

04-1995 to 07-1995. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France

07-90. Earth Resources Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

09-87 to 05-88. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY

Professional affiliations

American Physical Society, American Geophysical Union, Acoustical Society of America, and Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Recent Publications

2008:

• Frequency dependent thermal expansion in binary viscoelastic composites, Mechanics of Materials, accepted, to appear. LBNL-63655, April 7, 2008.

• Aligned vertical fractures, HTI reservoir symmetry, and Thomsen seismic anisotropy parameters for polar media, Geophysical Prospecting, accepted, to appear. LBNL-63659, December 14, 2007.

• On the: relationship between stress and elastic strain for porous and fractured rock, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, accepted, to appear. LBNL-178E, April 16, 2008. (with H.-H. Liu and J. Rutqvist).

• Elastic and transport properties in polycrystals of cracked grains: Cross-property relations and microstructure, International Journal of Engineering Science 46 (6), 500--512 (2008). LBNL-63502, October 8, 2007.

• Exact seismic velocities for transversely isotropic media and extended Thomsen formulas for stronger anisotropies, Geophysics 73, D1--D10 (2008). LBNL-62907, June, 2007.

2007:

• Aligned vertical fractures, HTI symmetry, and Thomsen parameters, in Proceedings of the EAGE-SEG Workshop on Fractured Reservoirs: Integrating Geosciences for Fracturecd Reservoirs, Perugia, Italy, September 3--6, 2007. LBNL-63016, July, 2007.

• Seismic waves in rocks with fluids and fractures, Geophysical Journal International 171, 954--974. LBNL-62925, June, 2007.

• Simulations of dynamic crack propagation in brittle materials using nodal cohesive forces and continuum damage mechanics in the distinct element code LDEC, International Journal of Fracture 144, 131--147 (2007). LBNL-61404, August, 2006. (with G. Block, M. B. Rubin, and J. Morris)

2006:

• Random polycrystals of grains containing cracks: Model of quasistatic elastic behavior for fractured systems, Journal of Applied Physics 100, 113527 (2006). LBNL-61135, July 19, 2006. (with V. Grechka)

  Target characterization using decomposition of the time-reversal operator: Electromagnetic scattering from small ellipsoids, Inverse Problems 22, 2145--2163 (2006). (with D. H. Chambers)

  Measures of microstructure to improve estimates and bounds on elastic constants and transport coefficients in heterogeneous media, Mechanics of Materials 38 (8--10), 732--747 (2006).

  Geomechanical analysis with rigorous error estimates for a double-porosity reservoir model, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 30, 441--453 (2006; online: December 8, 2005)

  Effective medium theories for multicomponent poroelastic composites, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 132 (5), 519--531 (2006).

• Estimates and rigorous bounds on pore-fluid enhanced shear modulus in poroelastic media with hard and soft anisotropy, International Journal of Damage Mechanics 15 (2), 133--167 (2006).

2005:

• Comparison of up-scaling methods in poroelasticity and its generalizations, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 131 (9), 928--936 (2005).
  Pore fluid effects on shear modulus in a model of heterogeneous rocks, reservoirs, and granular media, Journal of Geophysical Research 110 (B7), B07202 (online: July 20, 2005).
  Thermal conductivity of porous media, Applied Physics Letters 86, 032905 (2005; online: January 11, 2005).
  Poroelastic fluid effects on shear for rocks with soft anisotropy, Geophysical Journal International 161 (3), 881--890 (2005; online: May 5, 2005).
  Fluid effects on shear waves in finely layered porous media, Geophysics 70, N1--N15 (2005).
  Bounds and estimates for elastic constants of random polycrystals of laminates, International Journal of Solids and Structures 42, 3730--3743 (2005).
  Bounds and estimates for transport coefficients of random and porous media with high contrasts, Journal of Applied Physics 97, 063504 (2005).
  
• Dispersion of waves in porous cylinders with patchy saturarion: Formulation and torsional waves, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 1785--1795 (2005). (with S. R. Pride)
  

2004:

• Poroelastic shear modulus dependence on pore-fluid properties arising in a model of thin isotropic layers, Geophysical Journal International 157, 415--425 (2004).
  Bounds on elastic constants for random polycrystals of laminates, Journal of Applied Physics 96, 4281--4287 (2004).
  Analysis of the time-reversal operator for a small spherical scatterer in an electromagnetic field, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 52, 1729--1738 (2004). (with D. H. Chambers)
  Time-reversal analysis for scatterer characterization, Physical Review Letters 92, 023902 (2004). (with D. H. Chambers)
  Seismic attenuation due to wave-induced flow, Journal of Geophysical Research 109, B01201 (2004). (with S. R. Pride and J. M. Harris)
  
• Method for distinguishing multiple targets using time-reversal acoustics, US Patent No. 6,755,083 granted June 29, 2004.

James G. Berryman
Senior Staff Scientist

Geophysics Department Head

Phone: 510-486-5349
Fax: 510-486-5686
email:JGBerryman@LBL.GOV

 

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