Klaus Leurer

Post Doctoral Researcher

Contact Details

Post Doctoral Researcher
Dept. of Earth & Ocean Sciences
Room A105
Quadrangle Building
Nui, Galway

T: Ext. 2690
E: klaus.leurer@nuigalway.ie
 
researcher

Biography

MSc CAU Kiel, Germany, 1988 PhD CAU Kiel, Germany, 1994 PostDoc CAU Kiel, Germany, 1995 PostDoc Stanford University, California, 1997 PostDoc KU Leuven, Belgium, 1999 Software Developer, O. Nielsen OHG, Germany, 2000 PostDoc NUI Galway, 2002

Research Interests

Acoustics of porous media

Unconsoldated granular materials

Rock physics

Marine seismics and acoustics 

Seabed sediment characterisation 
 

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2004) 'Compressional- and shear-wave velocities and attenuation in deep-sea sediment during laboratory compaction'
Leurer, KC (2004) 'Compressional- and shear-wave velocities and attenuation in deep-sea sediment during laboratory compaction'. Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America, 116 :2023-2030 [DOI] [Details]
(2006) 'Viscoelasticity of precompacted unconsolidated sand with viscous cement'
Leurer, KC,Dvorkin, J (2006) 'Viscoelasticity of precompacted unconsolidated sand with viscous cement'. Geophysics, 71 :31-40 [DOI] [Details]
(2008) 'Acoustics of marine sediment under compaction: Binary grain-size model and viscoelastic extension of Biot's theory'
Leurer, KC,Brown, C (2008) 'Acoustics of marine sediment under compaction: Binary grain-size model and viscoelastic extension of Biot's theory'. Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America, 123 :1941-1951 [DOI] [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2004) GEOHAB, 5th Int. Symposium
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2004) Towards quantitative seabed classification using extended Biot theory GEOHAB, 5th Int. Symposium Galway, Ireland, [Details]
(2004) 47th Irish Geological Research Meeting
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2004) Seabed substrate characterisation using acoustic measurements 47th Irish Geological Research Meeting Galway, Ireland, [Details]
(2005) GEOHAB, 6th Int. Symposium
Leurer, K.C., O'Connell, B., and Brown, C., (2005) Characterisation of near-surface ocean bottom sediments from seismic profiling data ? Forward model and neural network inversion scheme GEOHAB, 6th Int. Symposium Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, [Details]
(2006) 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
Leurer, K.C., O'Connell, B., and Brown, C., (2006) Seabed sediment properties from single-channel seismic profiling 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America Providence, Rhode Island, [Details]
(2006) GEOHAB, 7th Int. Symposium
Leurer, K.C., O'Connell, B., and Brown, C., (2006) Seabed sediment properties from single-channel seismic profiling data GEOHAB, 7th Int. Symposium Edinburgh, United Kingdom, [Details]
(2008) Summer Research Workshop
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2008) Rock Physics model for unconsolidated sediment, SEG 2008 Summer Research Workshop Galway, Ireland, [Details]
(2009) 15th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2009) Inversion on single-channel seismic data for acoutis and physical properties of unconsolidated seabed sediments: European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers: Near Surface 2009 15th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Dublin, Ireland, [Details]
(2009) 3rd International Conference & Exhibition
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2009) A Biot theory based acoustic model for unconsolidated marine sediment, Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies & Results 3rd International Conference & Exhibition Nafplion, Greece, [Details]
(2010) 16th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2010) Geoacoustic model for the inversion of seismic profiling data: European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers: Near Surface 2010 16th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Zurich, Switzerland, [Details]
(2010) European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, ECUA 2010
Leurer, K.C., and Brown, C., (2010) Geoacoustic model for unconsolidated marine sediment European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, ECUA 2010 Istanbul, Turkey, [Details]