S010
Geophysics for Geothermal Energy

Session ID#: 157975

Session Description:
Geothermal energy is a low-carbon renewable baseload energy source and will play a crucial role in achieving the goal of net zero emissions of global greenhouse gases by the second half of the 21st century. Many states in the U.S. aim to achieve the goal of 100% renewable energy by 2050. Geophysics plays a crucial role in exploration, production, and monitoring of geothermal energy reservoirs. Ongoing projects using geophysical technologies for geothermal energy applications have posed many scientific questions that need answers from both academic and industrial perspectives. We solicit abstracts on geophysical technologies applied to all types (e.g., direct use, hydrothermal, EGS and supercritical geothermal system) of geothermal energy, such as active surface seismic, vertical seismic profiling, distributed acoustic sensing, large-N array, induced seismicity, ambient seismic noise, gravity, magnetotellurics, electrical resistance tomography, and InSAR. We welcome submissions of abstracts on computational, laboratory experimental, and field-scale studies of geophysical technologies for geothermal energy applications.
Index Terms:

0599 General or miscellaneous [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
0999 General or miscellaneous [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
7299 General or miscellaneous [SEISMOLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Hiroshi Asanuma, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Andrew E. Sabin, U.S. Navy Geothermal Program Office, MS 4011, China Lake, CA, United States and Robert J Mellors, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
 
Geophysics in the EGS Collab Project: Our Eyes and Ears (Invited) (1047051)
Timothy J Kneafsey1, Doug Blankenship2, Patrick F Dobson3, Michelle Robertson4, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin5, Lianjie Huang6, Tim C Johnson7, Christopher E Strickland7, Martin Schoenball8, Chet Hopp9, Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos4, Craig Ulrich1, Paul Schwering2, William Roggenthen10, Todd Wood4, Dana Sirota11, Tyler Artz12, Dennise C Templeton13, Neala Creasy14 and The EGS Collab Team, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Department, Houston, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (8)Nagra, Wettingen, Switzerland, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, (10)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (11)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (12)RESPEC Engineering, Rapid City, United States, (13)Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, (14)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
 
Borehole Breakout Analysis in CUBO (Cornell University Borehole Observatory) (1050967)
Daniela Pinilla, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Patrick M Fulton, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States and Teresa E Jordan, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
 
Gravity and Magnetic Studies to Delineate Subsurface Configuration of East Geothermal Province along the Mahanadi Rift Basin, India: an Insight into the Non-Volcanic Hot-springs (1051289)
Aurobindo Basantaray, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India and Animesh Mandal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Earth Sciences, Kanpur, India
 
Imaging and Monitoring High-Temperature Geothermal Reservoirs with Seismic Noise Interferometry (1055530)
Pilar Sánchez‐Pastor1, Ketil Hokstad2, Bjarni Reyr Kristjánsson3, Vincent Drouin4, Sin-Mei Wu5, Gunnar Gunnarsson3, Cécile Ducrocq6, Stefan Wiemer5 and Anne Obermann7, (1)Swiss Seismological Service (SED), ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)EQUINOR, Trondheim, Norway, (3)Reykjavik Energy, Reykjavík, Iceland, (4)Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland, (5)ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)University of Iceland, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland, (7)ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service (SED), Zurich, Switzerland
 
Monitoring Fracture Stimulations at the EGS Collab Testbeds Using Elastic-Waveform Inversion of CASSM Data (1075684)
Neala Creasy1, Lianjie Huang1, Kai Gao1, Zongcai Feng2, Jonathan Blair Ajo-Franklin3, Chet Hopp4, Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos5, Paul Schwering6, Todd Wood7, Paul J Cook8, Alejandro Morales9, Timothy Johnson10, Hunter Anne Knox11, Doug Blankenship6, Patrick F Dobson12, Timothy J Kneafsey5, Michelle Robertson7 and EGS Collab Team13, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Rice University, Houston, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (10)Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, WA, United States, (11)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (12)Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (13)EGS Collab Project, Department of Energy, Geothermal Technologies Office, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Potential fluid pathways and supercritical fluid accumulations in the Taupo Volcanic Zone based on ambient noise data (1077447)
Chanmaly Chhun1,2, Takeshi Tsuji1,3 and Tatsunori Ikeda1,2, (1)Kyushu University, Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, (2)Kyushu University, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Fukuoka, Japan, (3)The University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
 
Seismic and strain monitoring of the EGS Collab experiment #2 testbed: Dataset overview and initial results (1089398)
Chet Hopp1, Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos2, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin3, Lianjie Huang4, Todd Wood5, Paul J Cook6, Alejandro Morales7, Paul Schwering8, Dennise C Templeton9, Tim C Johnson10, Hunter Knox11, Patrick F Dobson12, Doug Blankenship8, Timothy J Kneafsey1 and Michelle Robertson5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences (Bullard Laboratories), Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Rice University, Houston, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (8)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (9)Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, (10)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (11)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (12)Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Induced Seismicity Template Matching and Location Determination at Geothermal Monitoring Sites in Nevada (1090900)
Angela G Marusiak, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States, Chet Hopp, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, Joern O Kaven, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Nori Nakata, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Michelle Robertson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Geophysics for Exploration of Magmatic Geothermal Plays as part of DEEPEN: DErisking Exploration for geothermal Plays in magmatic Environments (Invited) (1096519)
Amanda Kolker1, Nicole Taverna1, Hannah Pauling1 and DEEPEN Science Team, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, United States
 
Microseismic Monitoring for Supercritical Geothermal Fluid in Kuju Volcanoes (1101900)
Rezkia Dewi Andajani1, Takeshi Tsuji1,2, Tatsunori Ikeda2, Keigo Kitamura2, Satoshi Matsumoto3, Yuki Yamaura4 and Haruhiro Inagaki4, (1)The University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Kyushu University, Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, (3)Kyushu University, Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Fukuoka, Japan, (4)West Japan Engineering Consultants, Inc, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Seismic Imaging of the Kilauea Rift System, HI, USA, and the Potential for Geothermal Exploration (1105052)
Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Steve Jarpe, GeoEnergy Monitoring Systems, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Geophysical and Thermal Modelling for Geothermal Exploration in the Northeast Pannonian Basin (Romania) (1106411)
Alexander Minakov1, Carmen Gaina1, Liviu Matenco2, Maik Neukirch1 and Marine Collignon3, (1)University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
 
Borehole DAS Ambient Noise in Sedimentary Rocks at the Utah FORGE Geothermal Site (1115750)
Yingping Li1, David Zhenai Li2, Lianjie Huang2 and Yingcai Zheng3, (1)BlueSkyDas, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States
 
High-Resolution Seismic Tomography across Hengill Geothermal Field in SW-Iceland using a Large-N Nodal Array (1120467)
Sin-Mei Wu, Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Pilar Sanchez, ETH Zürich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zürich, Switzerland, Thorbjörg Ágústsdóttir, Iceland GeoSurvey, Reykjavik, Iceland, Anne Obermann, ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service (SED), Zurich, Switzerland, Gylfi Páll Hersir, Formerly at Iceland GeoSurvey, Reykjavik, Iceland and Aurélien Mordret, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France
 
Characterizing the Background Microseismicity of an Intraplate Region Near Ithaca, NY in Preparation for a Potential Deep Geothermal System (1124477)
Zachary Katz1, Geoffrey A Abers1, Aaron N Ferris2, Teresa E Jordan1, Matthew E Pritchard1 and Patrick M Fulton3, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (2)Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
 
On the Utility of a Surface DAS Array to Monitor Induced Micro-Seismicity and Operation Activities at the Utah FORGE EGS Facility (1139487)
Manuel Mendoza1, Anne Sheehan1, Ge Jin2, Kristine L Pankow3, Aleksei Titov4 and Halina Dingo5, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States, (3)University of Utah, Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
 
Geophysical investigation and the assessment for hot dry rocks in southeastern China (1145412)
Lun Li1, Jialong He2, ShiXian Dong1, LingFeng Zhao1, Jinming Zhang2 and Borui Peng2, (1)Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, (2)Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
 
3D Seismic Wave Modeling and Inversion in Fractured Media for Energy Transition (1151067)
Jake Parsons1, Yingcai Zheng1, Hao Hu1, Xinding Fang1 and Lianjie Huang2, (1)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Geothermal Exploration of the Baia Mare Region (Romania) with Magnetotellurics (1155949)
Maik Neukirch1, Alexander Minakov1, Maxim Smirnov2, Carmen Gaina1,3, Ionelia Panea4, Anca Isac4,5, Marine Collignon6, Alexandru Zlibut4, Cosmin Coverca4, Bogdan Sebastian Paralescu4 and Ana-Maria Henriuc Morosan4, (1)University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway, (2)Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, (3)Queensland University of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Brisbane, Australia, (4)University of Bucharest, Department of Geophysics, Bucharest, Romania, (5)Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, Romania, (6)Independent Researcher, Nice, France
 
Fracture Detection and Monitoring at the First EGS Collab Testbed Using DAS Ambient Noise (1162031)
David Zhenai Li1, Lianjie Huang1, Yingcai Zheng2, Yingping Li3, Martin Schoenball4, Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos5, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin6, Chet Hopp7, Paul Schwering8, Tim C Johnson9, Hunter Anne Knox9, Doug Blankenship8, Patrick F Dobson10, Timothy J Kneafsey11, Michelle Robertson5 and The EGS Collab Team, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States, (3)BlueSkyDas, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Nagra, Wettingen, Switzerland, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Rice University, Houston, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, (8)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (9)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Cataloging long-duration signals at the Lightning Dock geothermal field, New Mexico (1164162)
Francesco Civilini, CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Allen L Husker, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kyungjae IM, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Joel Edwards, Zanskar Geothermal and Minerals Inc., Salt Lake City, United States
 
Capturing Seismicity from Vibroseis Survey and Local Tectonics with a Surface DAS Array at Utah FORGE (1167405)
Halina Dingo1, Manuel Mendoza2, Anne Sheehan2, Ge Jin3 and Aleksei Titov4, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States
 
Integrated Electrical and Electromagnetic Exploration at the M’Deek Geothermal Field (1172361)
Zoë E Vestrum1, Martyn Jonathan Unsworth1, Benjamin Lee1, Tim Thompson2 and Fred Heikkinen3, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Borealis GeoThermal Inc, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)Kitselas Geothermal Inc, Terrace, BC, Canada
 
Characterization of the Olkaria Geothermal structure with ambient seismic noise tomography (1172955)
Junior Kimata1,2, Islam Fadel2 and Mark van der Meijde2, (1)Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC, Geothermal Resource Development, Naivasha, Kenya, (2)University of Twente, Applied Earth Science, Enschede, Netherlands
 
Superhot Rock Energy and mapping depths to 450°C: mapping heat, uncertainties, and resource density modelling (1173705)
Philip Joseph Ball1,2, Juan Carlos Afonso3, Luc Lavier4, Mikenna Montgomery2, Leslie Abrahams2 and Terra Rogers2, (1)Keele University, School of Geography, Geology and Environment, Staffordshire, ST5, United Kingdom, (2)Clean Air Task Force, Boston, United States, (3)Macquarie University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, Australia, (4)University of Texas, Jackson School of Geosciences, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
Updates from the Cornell University Borehole Observatory (CUBO): A 3km Deep Exploratory Well for Advancing Earth Source Heat Deep Direct-Use Geothermal for District Heating (1192484)
Patrick M Fulton1, Roberto Clairmont2, Madeline Fresonke2, Sean Fulcher2, Daniela Pinilla3, Ivanakbar Purwamaska1, Reeby Puthur2, Juliette Torres2, Koenraad Beckers4, Stephen M Beyers5, J. Olaf Gustafson5, Robert R Bland2, Teresa E Jordan2 and Jefferson W Tester6, (1)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, United States, (5)Cornell University, Facilities Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)Cornell University, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Seismic Reflection Imaging in the southern Salton Trough: Geothermal Prospecting in and around the Mexicali Valley (1195839)
Young Ho Aladro, Mario González-Escobar, Cristian Gallegos-Castillo, Edgar A Mastache-Román and Sergio Arregui, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
 
Numerical modeling of the transient pressure surge effect in fluid-filled fractures (1198366)
Yuesu Jin, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States and Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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