Faculty
Mirko van der Baan, PhD
Prof. Mirko van der Baan is the Co-Director of the Consortium for Distributed and Passive Sensing (C-DaPS). He is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta, specializing in Exploration Seismology. He graduated in 1996 from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, obtained a PhD with honors in 1999 from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and then joined the University of Leeds, UK, where he became a Reader in Exploration Seismology. He also holds an HDR (Habilitation) from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France. Before being the Co-Director of C-DaPS, he led the joint-industry project Blind Identification of Seismic Signals (BlISS), focusing on advanced statistical signal processing and technology/knowledge transfer to the hydrocarbon industry. He is one of the founding members of the Integrated Petroleum Geosciences (IPG) professional MSc program at the University of Alberta. Finally, he was the 2017 Honorary Lecturer, North America, for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Dr. Juliana Leung is the Co-Director of the Consortium. She is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Alberta. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Data Analytics for Subsurface Flow Processes. She is also a registered professional engineer in Alberta. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calgary, a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her professional experiences include working as a reservoir engineer for over two years at Shell Canada Ltd. and summer internships at the Sandia National Laboratories and ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in Houston. She is currently supervising a team of more than ten graduate students, focusing on data analytics and modelling of subsurface fluid flow processes. She has (co)-authored over 170 journal and conference papers. She is the recipient of several teaching and research awards and serves as editor for several journals, including Geoenergy Science and Engineering and Applied Computing and Geosciences.
Prof. David Eaton is the Scientific Advisor and the Former Co-Director of the Consortium. He held the NSERC/Chevron Industrial Research Chair in Microseismic System Dynamics in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary. Together with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, his work focuses primarily on advancement of research, education and technological innovations in microseismic methods and their practical applications for resource development, with a secondary focus on the deep lithospheric structure of continents. In 2007, he rejoined the University of Calgary as Head of the Department of Geoscience, after an 11-year academic career at the University of Western Ontario. His postdoctoral research experience included work at Arco’s Research and Technical Services (Plano, Texas) and the Geological Survey of Canada (Ottawa). He has over 300 publications generating nearly 12,000 citations, as well as a textbook on Passive Seismic Monitoring of Induced Seismicity. His external recognitions include the J. Tuzo Wilson medal by the Canadian Geophysical Union, a 2021 Killam Annual Professor award and he is co-recipient of a 2020 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation.
C-DaPS Affiliate Faculty
Our affiliate faculty members specialize in a wide range of academic disciplines.
Sven Anders, PhD
Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
University of Alberta
Lianne Lefsrud, PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
F. Albert Liu, PhD
Civil Engineering
McGill University
Renato Macciotta Pulisci, PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
Rebecca Swinscoe, PhD
Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada
Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary