The main advantage of the GSGS Fellowship Grant was the opportunity to finish the writing process of my PhD thesis during the 3 months duration of the grant.
The main focus of the thesis was the development of a 2D Finite Element inversion algorithm for the interpretation of direct current resistivity and time-domain induced polarization data using unstructured meshes. The programming part of the thesis was most time consuming. However, the task was finished eventually and the datasets that were acquired on a copper ore deposit in the beginning of the PhD project were interpreted successfully using the newly developed algorithm.
Besides the completion of writing the thesis, the final versions of modeling studies using synthetic datasets and comparing modeling and inversion results with established algorithms were accomplished during the time of the Fellowship Grant. At the same time, I was able to begin the process of rewriting and tidying up the source code which can be provided to future users at the IGM Cologne. In March 2017, I attended the Annual Meeting of the German Geophysical Society (DGG) in Potsdam where I presented the final results of my PhD thesis to a scientific audience and discussed results and open questions with experts from different working groups.
Therefore, I am grateful for the provision of financial support of the GSGS which ensured the completion of my thesis!

Juliane Adrian
PhD student
Applied Geophysics, Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology

PhD Project: Zweidimensionale Interpretation von Radiomagnetotellurik-, Geoelektrik- und
Induzierten Polarisationsdaten: Ein Beispiel aus der Erzexploration

Thesis: Interpretation of DC and IP Time-Domain Data Observed on a Copper Deposit in Turkey
Using a Newly Developed 2D Finite Element Inversion With Unstructured Meshes

Prof Dr Tezkan

Defense: May 2nd 2017