Upcoming February event:
Geophysical Monitoring
Information:
Our February event will be organized in collaboration with Deltares
Date: February 27th, 17:30-20:00
Venue: Deltares Utrecht Office, Daltonlaan 600, 3584 BK Utrecht
Registration via Google forms
Agenda:
17:30 - 17:50 - Walk-in
17:50 - 18:00 - Welcome and short introduction by Florencia Balestrini
18:00 - 18:30 - Technical talk by Aris Nivorlis (Deltares) on:
Advances in geoelectrical monitoring with application on chlorinated solvent contamination: Towards scalable real-time geophysical monitoring
18:30 - 19:00 - Technical talk by Roland Nieboer (Deltares) on:
GeoSim: feasibility for geophysical measuring through numerical simulations and controlled lab-scale testing
19:00 - 20:00 - Networking drinks
Abstract:
Adapting urban areas to the current demands of
the energy transition, as well as maintaining crucial infrastructures like
roads, bridges and quay walls, requires large investments for which understanding
of the subsurface is vital. In this study, an urban environment
was created in a scaled lab environment to test a multi-sensor geophysical
setup. The lab setup included a brick top layer, different soil types and
buried, leaking pipelines. Co-located electrical resistivity, seismic and
ground radar measurements were conducted while varying the hydrological
conditions as well as simulating a leakage from a pipeline. Where the ground radar data most clearly
delineated boundaries between different elements in the subsurface, the
electrical resistivity and refraction tomography provided material parameters,
though detection of small features like pipelines was not possible. The leakage
of the pipeline was clearly detected by monitoring the electrical resistivity
and, to a lesser extent through reflections of the leakage front in the ground
radar data. The acquired data from this study is a good starting point for
joint-inversion and data fusion, that is expected to yield more useful
information about the sub-surface than each of the individual sensors by
itself.
Speaker: Roeland Nieboer (Deltares)
Biography:
Roeland Nieboer is an applied research geophysicist focusing on extracting soil and rock properties from integrated geophysical and geotechnical data. He is skilled in processing, interpreting, and analyzing data to derive insights into subsurface structures and properties.
Upcoming March event:
Carbon Capture Storage
Information:
Our March event will be organized in collaboration with Shell
Date: March 27th, 17:30-20:00
Venue: Shell The Hague Office, Carel van Bylandtlaan 16, 2596 HR Den Haag
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE BUILDING!
Registration via Google forms
Agenda:
17:30 - 17:50 - Walk-in
17:50 - 18:00 - Welcome and short introduction by Florencia Balestrini
18:00 - 18:30 - Technical talk by Sanne Dekker (Shell) on:
CCS: storing CO2 deep in the ground
18:30 - 19:00 - Q&A
19:00 - 20:00 - Networking drinks
20:00 - Closing of the building
Abstract:
During my talk (title CCS: storing CO2 deep in the ground) I
will explain the basic principles of CO2 storage, the subsurface challenges and
a bit about the project I am working on in the Netherlands.
Speaker: Sanne Dekker (Shell)
Biography:
My name is Sanne Dekker, I am Dutch, I have a French husband and we have three children, all born in New Zealand. A long time ago I studied Applied Earth Sciences (at that time called “Mijnbouw”) in Delft, specializing in geophysics. For more than 20 years, I have worked as a geoscientist for Shell in the UK (London and Aberdeen), New Zealand, Oman and the Netherlands in Exploration, Development and more recently in CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage). Besides work, I enjoy doing sports, travelling, photography and playing the piano.
