Announcements

On December 6, 2023, Lucy successfully defended her Master’s thesis entitled “Deciphering Hydrological Responses: Elastic and Poroelastic Behaviour through GPS Temporal Analysis”. Her advisor was Prof. Tom Herring of ERL and Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

About 30 ERL members will be giving talks, presenting posters, or convening sessions at this year’s American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco in December. Date Presenter / Convener Type Title / Link 12/11/2023 Hilary Chang Poster Quantifying the structural and site effects on microearthquake source parameter variability in a sedimentary basin across a…

On September 8, 2023, Lluís successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Numerical Modeling of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage in Faulted Siliciclastic Settings”. His advisor was Prof. Ruben Juanes of ERL, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences.

New paper in Geophysical Journal International from ERL/EAPS Principal Research Scientist Nori Nakata, former ERL/EAPS postdoc Hongrui Qiu, and collaborators: Towards the Usage of Quarry Blasts as an Active Seismic Source for Subsurface Characterization and Imaging https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gji/ggad391/7289239 “Active or man-made seismic sources are often used to delineate subsurface geologic structures via seismic imaging techniques. Although…