Seminar
Engineering Geology Seminars, Spring 2024
We are delighted to announce the programme of the new Engineering Geology seminar series for this spring semester. We have 8 talks covering a broad range of topics. Please join us in person in NO C 6 or on zoom every Tuesday afternoon at 16.15.
Past Engineering Geology seminars
Our spring seminar series in 2022 took place as a series of webinars, hosted every Tuesday from 16.15-17.00 (Zurich time) via Zoom.
The Download schedule (PDF, 26 KB) can be found and a detailed guest list and topics is also available in Download programme of guest lectures (PDF, 109 KB). Video recordings and materials of the lectures can be found below:
- 22 February: "Download Introduction of the seminar series and MSc thesis projects (PDF, 919 KB)", Dr. Qinghua Lei, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- 22 March: “Benchmark testing in Bedretto and Utah of procedures and instruments to prepare the Haute-sorne EGS geothermal project", Dr. Peter Meier, GeoEnergie Suisse, Switzerland
- 29 March: "Salt Solution Mining in Switzerland: Cavern Stability and Potential Environmental Impacts", Prof. Simon Löw, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- 5 April: "external page Geothermal exploration in foreland sedimentary basins: Lessons learnt from 20 years of activity in the Swiss plateau", Prof. Andrea Moscariello (Download short bio (PDF, 56 KB)), Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
- 12 April: "Construction of New Albula Tunnel II - Conventional tunnelling in heterogeneous geology", Patric Walter, Construction Manager & Project Engineer for Tunnel Construction at AFRY
- 26 April: "Water can move mountains: hydrologically induced deformation in the Apennines (Italy) and Sierra Nevada (California) observed from GNSS data", Dr. Francesca Silverii (Download short bio (PDF, 118 KB)), National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Rome, Italy
- 03 May: “Subsurface environments: A multi-scale scientific challenge”, Dr. Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland
- 10 May: “Geomechanical modelling and evaluation of induced seismicity in subsurface engineering operations”, Dr. Wenzhuo Cao (Download short intro (PDF, 11 KB)), Imperial College London, UK
- 17 May: “Rock Discontinuity Persistence: Current Understanding and New Insights", Dr. Junlong Shang (Download short intro (PDF, 61 KB)), University of Glasgow
- 24 May: "Couplable Wellbore-Reservoir Simulators to model multiscale geothermal problems", Dr. Maziar Gholami Korzani (Download short intro (PDF, 64 KB)), Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Past Guest Lecture information
- Download Spring Seminar Series, 2021 (PDF, 294 KB)
- Download Spring Seminar Series, 2020 (PDF, 197 KB)
- protected page Spring Seminar Series, 2019
- protected page Spring Seminar Series, 2018
- Download Spring Seminar Series, 2017 (PDF, 123 KB)
- Download Spring Seminar Series, 2016 (PDF, 97 KB)
- Download Spring Seminar Series, 2015 (PDF, 85 KB)