Matthew Casey worked on his Master’s in Geophysical Engineering at Montana Tech and incorporated Tech’s Thesis Abroad Program into his studies during Fall Semester 2004.
	He spent four months conducting research for his master’s thesis at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. Perth is the capital city of the State of Western Australia.

While at Curtin University, Matthew’s mentor was Dr. Donald Sherlock, who works for a governmental research organization, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The research organization is located at Curtin University and shares the same facility as the Department of Exploration Geophysics at Curtin University. The two entities have formed the Australian Resource Research Consortium (ARRC) which consists of the Petroleum Engineering and Exploration Geophysics departments as well as CSIRO.

While at Curtin, Matthew processed seismic data and the title of his thesis is "Elastic wave field inversion of time-lapse seismic data using pressurized reservoir models of turbidite channel sands".

In evaluating the host, Curtin University of Technology, Matthew stated, “CSIRO and ARRC are great paces to work. You have to be very self motivated and be able to take research into your own hands. The facilities are top notch and very high tech. CSIRO and ARRC are doing some very cutting edge research in their fields and are very well regarded in the international community of their field. This was the best thing I have ever done with my education.”

	While in Australia, Matthew went on weekend excursions north and to the east of Perth to see national parks, he went to Dr Sherlock’s farm in the outback, took a boat wine tour of the Swan River Valley, and experienced the nightlife and club scenes of Perth.

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