Geoscience BC Scholarship Recipients Featured at Technical Webinar with Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources

Vancouver, BC – February 15, 2022 – Geoscience BC and The Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR) have announced the details of a second webinar highlighting research papers in Geoscience BC’s Summary of Activities 2021: Energy & Water.

The latest webinar will feature presentations by four students and their research on induced seismicity, the Montney Formation and geothermal resources, followed by a question and answer session.

When: March 8, 2022 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm MST (9:00 am to 10:00 am PST)

Presenter: Bei Wang, University of Victoria and Geological Survey of Canada Presentation: Comprehensive Physical Model for the Contrasting Seismogenic Behaviours of Injection Wells in the Kiskatinaw Seismic Monitoring and Mitigation Area, NEBC

Presenter: Zahra Esmaeilzadeh, University of Calgary Presentation: Investigating Fault Sealing Effects on Induced Seismicity and Pore Pressure Distribution in NEBC: Observations

Presenter: Samantha Mackie, University of Calgary

Presentation: Stratigraphy, Facies Heterogeneities, and Structure in the Montney Formation of Northeastern British Columbia: Relation to H2S Distribution

Presenter: Cedar Hanneson, University of Alberta

Presentation: Geothermal Exploration in Southern BC using Electromagnetic Geophysics: Regional Perspectives

Registration is now open. Participants must register here by 3:00 pm MST (2:00 pm PST) on March 7, 2022.

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Geoscience BC
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