Resume

Ankan Basu

Hi, welcome to my website. I am currently working at the Marshal Miller and Associates, Bluefield VA. I also manage the entertainment news website http://calcuttatube.com.

Contact

• Email: basu.ankan@gmail.com
• Phone: 1-559-24-ANKAN (1-559-24-26526)
  

Current Address

Education

Background:

• 2006-Present: Geologist, Marshall Miller & Associates
• 2004-2006: Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• 2002-2004: Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology, Georgia State University, GA

Memberships:

• The Geological Society of America, 2005
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon, 2003

Certificates

• First Responder Haz Mat Awareness
• OSHA

Other Activities:

• Owner of multiple websites, including http://coalgeology.com
• Chief Editor of most read online Bengali Magazine Palki
• Conduct interviews with legendary musicians and film stars in India, help promote Bengali music and Bengali Cinema  all over the world.
• Writer, numerous poems and short stories have been published in many magazines.
  

Professional Experience:

1. 2006 -present: As geologist, duties vary from geologic and geotechnical and fracture logging of roof and floor strata of coal seams to hydrogeologic investigation of acid mine drainage. Supervised numerous diamond core drilling projects, worked on multiple coal bed methane jobs, performed limestone evaluations, coal reserve studies etc. Used Geochemist’s Workbench, PHREEQC and other ground water modelling softwares to evaluate various ground water scenarios such as acid mine drainage, contaminant flow path delineation etc.
2. 2004 – 2006: Designed and conducted experiments for sequential extraction of arsenic. Constructed mineral structures using various spectroscopic and microscopic methods. Taught two undergraduate environmental science introductory lab courses. As well as, taught one graduate level hydrogeology lab course.
3. 2002 – 2004: Performed K-Ar dating of clay minerals; compared advantages and disadvantages between K-Ar dating method and paleomagnetic dating method. Also, taught laboratory sections for undergraduate introductory geology course and graded quizzes and assignments.
   

Publications:

• Blumstein, A. M., R. D. Elmore; M. H. Engel; C. Elliot; and A. Basu (2004); Paleomagnetic dating of burial diagenesis in Mississippian carbonates, Utah, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B04101, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002698.
• W. Crawford Elliott, Ankan Basu , J. Marion Wampler , R. Douglas Elmore and Georg H. Grathoff; Comparison of K-Ar ages of diagenetic illite-smectite to the age of a chemical remanant magnetization (CRM): An example from the isle of Skye, Scotland, Clays and Clay Minerals; June

Abstracts:

• Basu A and Elliott C; 2003. Remagnetization and Clay diagenesis in Jurassic Sediments of Skye, Scotland, American Geological Union Fall Meeting CA.
• Basu A and Schreiber M; 2004. Spectroscopic and Microscopic analysis of arsenic contaminated sediments. Graduate Student Research Symposium.
• Basu A and Schreiber M; 2005. Geochemistry of arsenic in mine tailing deposits. Graduate Student Research Symposium.

Awards:

• University Gold Medal in Bachelors of Science, Jadavpur University, India, 2000.
• National Scholarship, Government of West Bengal, India, 2000.

Select Project Experience:

• Analysis of Pb-210 in Aerosols using Alpha Spectrometry; Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Department of Space Science, 2001.
• Underground Mapping and Stratigraphy; Uranium Corporation of India Ltd., Jadugoda, Jharkhand, India, 2000.

Selected Certificates (click to enlarge):

Certificate of Gold Medal

MS from G.S.U

MS from IIT

MS from VTech

Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Alpha Spectrometry