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Esben Auken
Esben Auken is CEO at TEMCompany Aps, and adjunct professor at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University. He has been Deputy Director at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and before that full time professor of geophysics at Aarhus University. He gained an MSc (1991) and PhD (1996) in geophysics from Aarhus University. TEMCompany vision is to develop affordable, easy to use electromagnetic instruments for imagining groundwater resources.
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CEO
2023 - Present
Aarhus University
Adjunct Professor
2022 - 2030
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Deputy Director
2020 - 2022
Aarhus University
Professor
2015 - 2020
Aarhus University
Associate Professor
2007 - 2014
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Education
Aarhus University
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
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For innovative and sustained development of electromagnetic software and instruments that advance hydrologic and geologic discovery and solutions
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Causes and Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Variability in Shallow (<4 m) Soils in Taylor V...
Airborne electromagnetic surveys collected in December 2011 and November 2018 and three soil sampling transects were used to analyze the spatial he...
February 17, 2023
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Successful Sampling Strategy Advances Laboratory Studies of ...
November 04, 2017
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Subsurface imaging reveals a confined aquifer beneath an ice...
January 12, 2015
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Coupled hydrogeophysical inversion using time-lapse magnetic...
January 26, 2012
AGU Abstracts
Weak Airborne Induced Polarization: Effects Predominantly in the Model-space while Nearly Invisible in the Data-space
ADVANCES IN NEAR-SURFACE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICAL GEOPHYSICAL METHODS II ORAL
near surface geophysics | 12 december 2023
Jade W. Crosbie, Burke J. Minsley, Esben Auken, Pr...
Much of the literature on airborne induced polarization (AIP) has focused on field examples where AIP effects appear as negative transients, or where ...
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A new ground based Transient electromagnetic system based on the generic SuperTEM platform and opensource control software
ADVANCES IN NEAR-SURFACE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICAL GEOPHYSICAL METHODS III POSTER
near surface geophysics | 12 december 2023
Esben Auken, ANDERS V. CHRISTIANSEN, Thue S. Bordi...
We present a novel ground-based stationary Transient Electromagnetic system (sTEM) designed for cost-effective and user-friendly groundwater explorati...
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A geophysical sensor based on transient electromagnetic technology to monitoring groundwater dynamics
ADVANCING THE USE OF GEOPHYSICAL AND GEODETIC METHODS FOR GROUNDWATER SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT I ORAL
near surface geophysics | 13 december 2022
Pradip Maurya, Lichao Liu, Juan C. Luria, Paul McL...
Transient electromagnetic (TEM) is a well-established geophysical method used in near surface investigations. However, compared to direct current (DC)...
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