RECENT HEILAND LECTURES
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 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 10, 2021
Radar Sounders: Ice, Distributed Apertures, and Asteroid Tomography
Mark Haynes
Radar Science and Engineering Section at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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
Spring 2021 Schedule
January 20, 2021
Good Geoscience in Dire Places: Searching for Water in Humanitarian Crises
2020-2021 CSEG Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Paul Bauman
CSEG Distinguished Lecturer
January 27, 2021
Studying the behavior Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) using Deep Underground Laboratories
Dr. Hansruedi Maurer
DUGLab, Department of Earth Sciences
ETH Zürich
February 3, 2021
Overcoming Computational Hurdles in Large-Scale Passive Seismology
Dr. Eileen Martin
Department of Mathematics
Virginia Tech
February 10, 2021
Uncertainty Quantification for Large-scale, Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Dr. Andreas Fichtner
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich
February 17, 2021
Permafrost in a Changing Climate: The Role of Geophysics in Measuring Arctic Lakes
Dr. Andy Parsekian
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering
University of Wyoming
February 24, 2021
Subsurfrace Data Integration and Process Modeling in 3D
Dr. Denis Anikiev
GFZ / Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
March 3, 2021
Would You Let a Geophysicist Loose Inside Your Head? – Using FWI to Image the Human Brain
Dr. Michael Warner
Department of Earth Science & Engineering
Imperial College London
March 10, 2021
Using Ambient Seismic Vibrations to Probe the Earth Near Surface Dynamics
Dr. Marine Denolle
Department of Earth & Space Sciences
University of Washington
March 17, 2021
The Susceptibility of Oklahoma’s Basement to Seismic Reactivation: Constraining the Necessary Ingredients for Induced EQ’s
Dr. Brett Carpenter
Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy
The University of Oklahoma
March 24, 2021
The Many Applications of Magnetotelluric Data: From Space Weather to Mineral Systems
Dr. Benjamin Murphy
Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow
United States Geological Survey
April 7, 2021
Canada’s Seismic Risk Profile: A Path to Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr. Tiegan Hobbs
Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada
April 14, 2021
Insights from a Changing Cryosphere: Glacier Processes Revealed in Observations of Canada’s St. Elias Mountains
Dr. Gwenn Flowers
Department of Earth Sciences
Simon Fraser University
April 21, 2021
Climate Change, the Energy Industry, and the Role of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Dr. Ali Tura
Professor, Colorado School of Mines Geophysics Department
April 28, 2021
Trust me, I’m a scientist!
The Science of Science Communication
Dr. Wendy Bohon
Geologist & Science Communication Specialist, IRIS, Washington, DC.
Fall 2020 Schedule
September 2, 2020
Unconventional reservoir characterization using seismic-band DAS records
Dr. Ariel Lellouch
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geophysics
Stanford Exploration Project, Stanford University
September 9, 2020
Bayesian inversion and model selection with poorly informed geological spatial priors
Dr. Niklas Linde
Professor, Environmental Geophysics
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
September 16, 2020
Seismic investigations over and within hypervelocity impact structures, at three sites
Dr. Douglas Schmitt
Professor and Stephen and Karen Brand Endowed Chair of Unconventional Energy
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Purdue University
September 23, 2020
Performance issues and scalability of ML tasks for Geoscience
Dr. Mauricio Araya
Senior Computer Scientist and Senior R&D Manager
Total E&P Research and Technology USA
September 30, 2020
Hunting the magnetic field through ocean drilling
Dr. Lisa Tauxe
Distinguished Professor of Geophysics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
October 7, 2020
Turning fiber optic cables into the next-generation seismic networks
Dr. Zhongwen Zhan
Assistant Professor of Geophysics
Seismological Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
October 21, 2020
The long tail of induced seismicity
Dr. Jake Walter
State Seismologist
Oklahoma Geological Survey
University of Oklahoma
October 28, 2020
Tsunami assimilation for rapid forecast: Application to Cascadia and New Zealand
Dr. Anne Sheehan
Professor
Geological Sciences
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
University of Colorado – Boulder
November 4, 2020
Active seismic constraints on subglacial processes of hydrologically routed ice streams
Dr. Kiya Riverman
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Oregon
November 11, 2020
Geophysical Mapping of Mineral Systems: Examples from the Southern Midcontinent of the United States
Dr. Anne E. McCafferty
Research Geophysicist
Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
November 18, 2020
Bridging the gap between geoscience disciplines through open-source resources
Dr. Seogi Kang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysics
Stanford University