RECENT HEILAND LECTURES
Fall 2022 Schedule
September 7, 2022
My problem with rock physics: deficiencies and remedies from a petrophysical perspective
Killian Ikwuakor
President & CEO of PEER Research
September 21, 2022
Development of Multi-Stage Fracturing System and Wellbore Tractor to Enable Zonal Isolation During Stimulation and EGS Operations in Horizontal Wellbores
Dr. William Fleckenstein
Colorado School of Mines
September 28, 2022
Passive seismic direct imaging of hydraulic and natural fractures
Dr. Alfred Lacazette
Director of Geology for Geothermal Technologies, Inc.
October 5, 2022
Slip Slidin’ Away: Glaciers and Ice Streams in the Climate System
Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Dept. of Geosciences, Penn State University
October 12, 2022
From Mines Geophysics to Mining Geophysics – An Early-career Scientist’s Perspective
Sarah Devriese
Mines-Geophysics Alum and Project Geophysicist at Teck Resources Limited
October 13, 2022 - Special Event - Joint Heiland-VanTuyl Lecture
Exploring the Sedimentary Rock Record of Mars with NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers
Dr. Kathryn Stack Morgan
NASA
M2020 Deputy Project Scientist
Research Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 19, 2022
Slow Adjustment of Gas Hydrate Systems to Change: Possible Implications for Carbon Cycling
Dr. Ingo Pecher
CMSS Professor, Texas A&M University
October 26, 2022
Seismic Surface Waves to Interpret Subsidence Features and Cavern Roof Failure Stages
Dr. Sarah Morton-Rupert
Geophysicist, Bureau of Reclamation
November 2, 2022
Planetary exploration: What’s our geoscience place in space?
Rob Stewart
Director, Allied Geophysical Labs
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair in Exploration Geophysics
Professor of Geophysics
November 16, 2022
Single and Crosswell Imaging of Shallow CO2 Accumulations: Examples from a Shallow Injection Experiment at the Carbon Management Canada CaMI FRS in Southeast Alberta, Canada
David Alumbaugh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
November 30, 2022
Not the surface waves you’re thinking about!
Bia Villas Bôas
Colorado School of Mines
Spring 2022 Schedule
January 19, 2022
Geophysical detection of abandoned mines and tunnels: Easy on paper … challenging in the field
Steve Sloan
US Army Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC)
February 2, 2022
Geophysical data, rock physics, and geostatistics: how to quantitatively image a sustainable subsurface
Dr. Dario Grana
University of Wyoming
February 9, 2022
Efficient training of infinite-depth neural networks via Jacobian-Free backpropagation
Dr. Samy Wu Fung
Colorado School of Mines
February 16, 2022
Integrating induced seismicity with fault interpretation at the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project
Dr. Sherilyn Williams-Stroud
Illinois State Geological Survey
February 23, 2022
Earth’s bulk structure and heterogeneity from big data and full-spectrum tomography
Dr. Pritwiraj Moulik
Princeton University
March 9, 2022
The Future of Earthquake Impact Estimation
David Wald
U.S. Geological Survey
March 16, 2022
Carbon sequestration in the subsurface: the atlas and the monitoring
Dr. Yunyue Li
Purdue University
March 30, 2022
Toward real-time estimation and forecasting in hydrogeophysics
Fred Day-Lewis
PNNL
April 6, 2022
Operations at the Cascades Volcano Observatory: Geophysical Networks, Lahars at Mount Rainier, Jackhammers, and Fissure Eruptions in Hawaii
Rebecca Kramer
Cascades Volcanology Center
April 13, 2022
Toward a Wavescope – AI-driven, Bayesian imaging and monitoring of subwavelength microstructures with finite-frequency waves
Dr. Ivan Vasconcelos
Utrecht
April 20, 2022
Adaptive spatial sensitivity functions for rapid modeling and inversion of 3D borehole geophysical measurements
Dr. Carlos Torres-Verdin
University of Texas
April 27, 2022
Near-surface cryo-hydrology from Greenland to Europa: Insights from ice-penetrating radar
Riley Culberg
PhD Candidate, Stanford
Fall 2021 Schedule
September 1, 2021
Geological Knowledge Discovery using Machine Augmented Intelligence
Dr. Eun-Jung Holden
School of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia
September 8, 2021
Development of an Ice Forecast System for Navigational Support and Emergency Response
Eric Anderson
Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
September 15, 2021
Radar Modelling of Asteroid Bennu and the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission
Michael Nolan
OSIRIS-REx Science Team Chief
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
September 22, 2021
Watching Rocks Recover: Monitoring Velocity Changes During Wave Propagation
Dr. Alison Malcolm
Associate Professor of Geophysics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
October 6, 2021
Enhancing our Understanding of the Deep Mantle via 3D Global Waveform Modeling of Seismic Anisotropy and Heterogeneity
Dr. Neala Creasy
Post-doctoral Fellow, Colorado School of Mines Department of Geophysics
October 13, 2021
Impacts and Opportunities created by the Geophysical Sustainability Atlas
Maria Angela Capello
Cavaliere (OSI), Managing Director of Red Tree Consulting, LLC
October 20, 2021
Drivers of recent summertime surface warming events in the Southern Ocean
Earle Wilson
Post-doctoral Scholar, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Caltech
October 27, 2021
Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Panacea or Indulgence?
Roelof Snieder
Professor of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines
November 9, 2022
Understanding the role of water in driving thaw and carbon cycling in changing permafrost environments using novel geophysical methods
Dr. Stephanie R. James
Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey
November 10, 2021
Radar Sounders: Ice, Distributed Apertures, and Asteroid Tomography
Mark Haynes
Radar Science and Engineering Section at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
November 3, 2021
Through the ocean to the mantle: Twenty thousand leagues under the seas with a fleet of floating seismic robots
Frederik J. Simons
Princeton University
November 17, 2021
Taking the Power of Exploration Geophysics from the Oil Patch to help Solve the World’s Grand Challenges
John Bradford
Vice President for Global Initiatives and Professor of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines; SEG 2021 Near Surface Global Lecturer
December 1, 2021
Geophysical insights into Paleoproterozoic tectonics in the southern Superior Province, Upper Peninsula, Michigan
Dr. Benjamin Drenth
Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey