Personnel

Faculty Members

  • Dr. David W. Eaton, Professor of Geophysics, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Calgary
  • Dr. Mirko van der Baan, Professor of Exploration Seismology, Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta

Staff

  • Ozioma Judith Adimonye – Project Coordinator
  • Andrew Poulin – Field Technologist

Graduate Students

  • Himanshu Barthwal (Ph.D) – Time-lapse velocity tomography
  • Ibi Bestmann (MSc) – Automatic event detection and location
  • Anton Biryukov (Ph.D) – Seismicity due to wastwater injection
  • Neda Boroumand (Ph.D) – Microseismicity and geomechanics
  • Colin Brisco (M.Sc) – Stress-induced anisotropy and fracture orientations
  • Mauricio Reyes Canales (M.Sc) – Seismic harzard analysis for induced seismicity
  • Eneanwan Ekpo (Ph.D) – Correlation with basement structures
  • Amna Feroz (Ph.D) – Combined reflection seismic and microseismic interpretations
  • Nadine Igonin (Ph.D) – Reverse-time imaging
  • Suzie Jia (Ph.D) – Experimental geomechanics
  • Alana Kent(M.Sc) – Muska formation petrophysics
  • Edouard Kravchinsky (M.Sc) – Celluar automata models and induced seismicity
  • Zhenhua Li (Ph.D) – Rotational seismology
  • Hang Lu (M.Sc) – Geomechanical modeling using bonded-particle methods
  • Mason MacKay (M.Sc) – Discrete fracture networks
  • Armando Gonzalez Monteza (M.Sc) – Induced seismicity in the western Canadian sedimentary basin
  • Atila da silva Paes (Ph.D) – Petrophysical interpretation of microseismic data
  • German Rodriguez (Ph.D) – Induced seismicity
  • Arsalan Sattari (Ph.D) – Numerical modelling of fault slip
  • Volodymyr Vragov (M.Sc) – Matched filtering analysis
  • Hongliang Zhang (Ph.D) – Moment tensor inversion
  • Xin Zhang (Ph.D) – Advanced microseismic processing

Post-doctoral Fellows

  • Dr. Murad Abuaisha – Continuum methods for geomechanical modelling
  • Dr. Xuewei Bao – VSP and source mechanism studies
  • Dr. Thomas Eyre – Microseismic moment tensor analysis
  • Dr. Yoones Vaezi – Seismic interferometry and continuous microseismic recordings
  • Dr. Megan Zecevic – Shear-tensile spectra

Alumni

  • Dr. Jubran Akram, now at Univ. of Calgary (Schulich School of Engineering)
  • Adedeji Samuel Awujuoola (M.Sc), continued with Shell, Nigeria
  • Dr. Alireza Babaeimahani, now at BC Oil and Gas Commission, Canada
  • Dr. Enrico Caffagni – Univerisity of Vienna, Austria
  • Fernando Castellanos, now at Schlumberger, Calgary
  • Drew Chorney, now at Itasca Image, Canada
  • Farshid Forouhideh (M.Sc), now at ION, USA
  • Dr. Melanie Grob, now at Itasca Image, Canada
  • Dr. Roberto Henry Herrera, now at UT Technology, Canada
  • Dr. Chad Hogan, continued at Curtin Univeristy, Austrilia
  • Dr. Piyush Jain, continued at Univeristy of Alberta, Canada
  • Dr. Joshua Jones
  • Ken Kocon, now at Alberta Energy Regulator, Canada
  • Dr. Javad Kazemian – Civil Service, Iran
  • Dr. Samira Maghsoud
  • Dr. Frank Calixto Mory – Institute of Mine Seismology, Australia
  • Kimberly Pike, now at Enerplus, Canada
  • Aamir Rafiq
  • Hoda Rashedi
  • Dr. Vincent Roche, now at Univeristy College Dublin, Ireland
  • Dr. Andre St. Onge, now at Torc Oil and Gas (Chief Geophysicist), Canada
  • Dr. Jean-Baptiste Tary – Universidad de los Andes, Columbia
  • Dr. Yoones Veazi, University of Alberta
  • Dr. Jiyang Ye – Kalkulo AS, Norway

Opportunities

Please browse through our current opportunities both at The University of Alberta and The University of Calgary.  This section is updated regularly.


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Governance

Research is undertaken under the direction and supervision of the Principal Investigators, Dr.David Eaton (University of Calgary) and Dr. Mirko Van der Baan (University of Alberta). For administrative purposes, the University of Alberta serves as the lead institution and all agreements with industry sponsors will operate through it.

An Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) provides guidance to the project through quarterly meetings. Each Sponsor can nominate a representative to the IAB.

Our Team

The Microseismic Industry Consortium is a diverse team that consists of University Faculty members, students, staff and affiliated researchers.