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Marco Venieri (co-supervised by Per Pedersen and David Eaton) won the 2018 Best Student Oral Presentation at the Geoconvention for his presentation entitled “Influence of sedimentary facies on geomechanical properties in the Duvernay Formation, Fox Creek area, AB, Canada?. (This is a hat-trick for Marco – the 3rd year in a row he has been recognized for Best Student paper award at the Geoconvention).

Scott McKean also won the 2018 Best Student Oral Presentation at the Geoconvention for his presentation entitled “A geomechanical comparison of the Duvernay and the Montney“.

The University of Alberta is conducting a public survey on the Oil and Gas Industry in Western Canada. Survey is completely anonymous and will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Please go to the website below for more information and to participate!

tinyurl.com/oilandgassurvey

We are interested in your views and experiences with the oil and gas industry in western Canada! Results will be shared with industry and regulators, and may inform policy recommendations.

Microseismic Industry Consortium will attend the 2019 CSEG Geoconvention. See details for talk/poster schedules.

Jordan Phillips won the 2019 Best Student Oral Presentation at the Geoconvention for her presentation entitled “Understanding Public Risk Perception in the Oil and Gas Industry” by Jordan Phillips, Mirko van der Baan, Sven Anders and Scott McKean

David Eaton will be giving the CSEG Distinguished Lecture tour this year (2019-2020). Here is a link to the abstract: https://cseg.ca/education/view/crustal-fluids-friction-and-faults-what-can-we-learn-from-injection-induced

Dave Eaton’s inaugural presentation for his CSEG Distinguished Lecture tour which will be held on Thursday, September 12, 3:30pm – 4:40pm at the Earth Sciences building (ES162), University of Calgary. (Detail see https://science.ucalgary.ca/events#!view/day/date/20190912).

The presentation is titled ‘‘Crustal Fluids, Friction and Faults: What can we learn from injection-induced earthquakes?”. It will include recent research that has been part of the Microseismic Industry Consortium over the years.

UCalgary led a project funded by Geoscience BC: Understanding and Mitigating Induced Seismicity Risk in the Kiskatinaw Area, BC has new induced seismicity monitoring data available through IRIS.

More information is available through the Geoscience BC News Release, June 17, 2020:  http://www.geosciencebc.com/new-seismic-data-now-available-for-northeast-bcs-kiskatinaw-area/

The Microseismic Industry Consortium will continue its tradition of holding an annual research workshop, on Thursday, August 13^th, 2020, to enable a detailed discussion of a topic of current interest to companies. This year’s research workshop will use an online format and will focus on observations of casing deformation, along with geomechanical modeling to understand causes and mitigation.

Dr. Eaton receives 2020 Canadian Geophysical Union’s J. Tuzo Wilson Award. This prestigious recognition is a competitive award, and it is awarded to a scientist who has made outstanding, career-long contributions to the geophysical sciences in Canada.

More information available through UCalgary News Release, May 25, 2020: https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-geophysicist-wins-prestigious-canadian-geophysical-union-medal

Two papers published in the top journals with contributions from MIC members:

1. Nature Reviews of Earth and Environment: Atkinson, G.M., Eaton, D.W. & Igonin, N. Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2020).  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0049-7

2. Reviews of Geophysics: Schultz, R., Skoumal, R.J., Brudzinski, M.R., Eaton, D.W., Baptie, B. & Ellsworth, W., Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity (2020).  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000695