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Rebecca Salvage, the affiliate member of C-DaPS, was interviewed by the Seismological Society of America. // [Her] case study published in Seismological Research Letters was a serendipitous test of two recent questionnaire-based frameworks established to distinguish natural and induced earthquakes, the latter of which are mostly caused by hydraulic fracturing or injected water disposal wells associated with oil and

We are thrilled to announce that the Consortium has invited Courtney Lucente from Tre Altamira to give a talk about Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), with details as follows: Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2023Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PMLocation: E6-060, ETLC Building, University of Alberta More event details can be found here.

The 14th C-DaPS Annual Sponsor Meeting has been successfully hosted on Thu & Fri, November 16-17, 2023, at the Hotel Arts in Calgary.  We are thrilled to invite Jon Olson (Professor, the University of Texas at Austin) and Brad Hayes (President, Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd.) to be our keynote speakers. 60+ academic experts and sponsors’ representatives

C-DaPS Annual Research Workshop 2023 was hosted on Thu, September 14, 2023 at the 54th floor of the Bow. The theme of this year’s workshop was “Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar” (InSAR). Seven experts specialized in InSAR shared their insight with 50+ members. For the workshop archives, see here.

DAS 1: Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Fracture MonitoringRoom 351AMonday, 8:25 AMEffectiveness of dip-in DAS observations for low-frequency strain and microseismic analysis: The CanDiD experimentDavid W. Eaton*, Yuanyuan Ma, Chaoyi Wang, and Kelly MacDougall, University of Calgary (INT. AUD.: 3)  DAS 1: Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Fracture MonitoringRoom 351AMonday, 8:50 AMNumerical modeling of low

The government of Alberta has announced funding for the new collaboration with Shell on monitoring of Quest CO2 storage. Read more in the folio https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/03/researchers-and-industry-team-up-to-assess-long-term-effectiveness-and-public-perceptions-of-carbon-storage-technology.html

We are pleased to announce the open-access publication in Nature Scientific Reports: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06129-3

We are pleased to announce that we have an article in Nature, News and Views section. It is entitled: A model of seismicity at a tectonically active oil field, by Mirko van der Baan. The article is an analysis of novel work by Hager et al., also published in Nature, of the Val d’Agri oil field

We are pleased to announce a newly released Geoscience BC report from the project Understanding and Mitigating Induced Seismicity Risk in the Kiskatinaw Area, BC. // A Geoscience BC energy research project has established a closely spaced network of seismographs in the Kiskatinaw area of British Columbia’s Northeast Region to help understand in more detail how and