Curriculum Vitae
Personalia
| Name | Bjarne Rafaelsen |
| Address | Krystallvegen 16, 9408 Harstad, Norway |
| Phone no. | +47 97 63 33 93 |
| Born | 30.10.1973, Tromsø (Norway) |
| Status | Married, 4 children |
Education
| 1989-1992 | Allmennfag/EDB at Kvaløya videregående skole | |
| 1994, 1996-1998 | Graduate student in geology at the University of Tromsø | |
| Jan 1999-Nov 2000 | Study of my main subject in marine geology and geophysics at the University of Tromsø.
Subject of post-graduate thesis: "Cenozoic palaeo-surfaces in the south-western Barents Sea based on three-dimensional seismic data" (in Norwegian) Summary and table of contents (9 kB PDF) |
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Karin Andreassen (Department of Geology, University of Tromsø) Geophysicist Kai Hogstad (Norsk Hydro ASA, Harstad) Ph. D. student Erland Lebesbye (Department of Geology, University of Tromsø) |
| Dec 2000-March 2006 | Ph. D. student at the University of Tromsø. Subject:
"Three-dimensional seismic geomorphology: new methods providing new geological models". The focus is mainly on 3D seismic interpretation methods, using examples from the Carboniferous-Permian carbonate succession and the Quaternary glacigenic succession of the southwestern Barents Sea. |
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Karin Andreassen (Department of Geology, University of Tromsø) Geophysicist Kai Hogstad (Norsk Hydro ASA, Harstad) |
Employment of relevance
| Jul/Aug 1998 | Field assistant at Tjeldsund (Norway) | Supervisor: Klaas Bouke Zwaan (Norges Geologisk Undersøkelse) |
| Nov 2000 | Lab assistant at the scientific lab | Supervisor: Edel Ellingsen (Department of Geology, University of Tromsø) |
| Sept 2004 - March 2006 | Coordinator and researcher in the "Arctic Research Cooperation", a cooperation project between Moscow State University, University of Tromsø and Statoil. | Supervisor: Karin Andreassen (Department of Geology, University of Tromsø) |
| April 2006 => | Exploration geologist at the StatoilHydro Harstad office. | Leader: Ketil Sollid |
Publications
Click here for a detailed overview of my publications.
Teaching
| Autumn 1998 | Part-time lecturer on the graduate level course Geo-101 "Introduction to Geology" | At Department of Geology (University of Tromsø) |
| Spring 2000 | Part-time lecturer on the graduate level course Geo-241 "Interpretation of reflection seismics" | At Department of Geology (University of Tromsø) |
| Spring / fall 2001, Fall 2002 | Part-time lecturer on the National Researcher course GEO-343 "Three-dimensional seismic interpretation" | At Department of Geology (University of Tromsø) |
| Fall 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 | Lecturer on the national field course Svalex from 2002-2005. The past three years I have been responsible for the Svalex pre-course assignment. | At The University courses on Svalbard and onboard "M/S Nordstjernen" |
Qualifications and experience
| Languages | Norwegian (native language), English (good), German (basic) | |
| Publications | Publications are avaliable here, while posters and abstracts are avaliable here | |
| Software | Unix | Charisma (GeoFrame): Interpretation of 3-D seismic data, attribute maps and volumetric attributes. Familiar with GeoViz, GeoCube and MapPlot.
SeisClass 3D (GeoFrame): Automated 3-D seismic facies mapping and generation of attribute cubes. SeisWorks 2D (Landmark): Interpretation of 2-D seismic profiles ProMax (Landmark): Seismic data processing on Landmark. GIGAViz (VoxelVision): Interpretation of 3-D seismic data, attribute maps and volumetric attributes. Generic Mapping Tool: Generating maps of interest for the Barents Sea region using the IBCAO grid. |
| PC | Windows, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Pascal, Corel Draw 9, FrontPage, ArcGIS | |
References
| Karin Andreassen | University of Tromsø | Phone no.: 77 64 44 20 |
| Luppo W. Kuilman | Det Norske Oljeselskap | |
| David Hunt | StatoilHydro |
Membership
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Personal interests
I study Kyokushinkai Karate at Tromsø Karate Klubb.
My education as an instructor::
| 1994 | Instructor level A (Trener A-kurs, Norges Idrettsforbund) |
| 1994 | Instructor level I (Trener I-kurs, Norges Kampsportforbund) |
| 1999 | Shodan (1. dan) |
Other cources I have passed:
| 1996 | Pacify course for doormen (Passifisering for dørvakter, Verge) |
| 1999 | Hunter licence (Jegerprøven) |