Daniel Burns
ERL Executive Director

Office: 54-520
Phone: 617.253.7206
Email: burns@mit.edu

Ph.D. 1986, MIT

Research Interests

• Fractured Reservoirs
• Reservoir Characterization & Monitoring
• Borehole Acoustics & Rock Properties

• Willis, M., Burns, D. R., Rao, R., Minsley, B., Toksoz, M. N., Vetri, L., Spatial orientation and distribution of reservoir fractures from scattered seismic energy, Geophysics, v.71, no.5, O43-O51, 2006.
• Shen, F., Sierra, J., Burns, D. R., and Toksoz, M.N., Azimuthal offset-dependent attributes applied to fracture detection in a carbonate reservoir, Geophysics, v.67, no.2, p.355-364, 2002.
• Hayashi, K. , Burns, D. R., and Toksoz, M.N., Discontinuous-grid finite-difference seismic modeling including surface topography, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., v.91, no.6, p. 1750-1764, 2001.