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March 2025: Team member Nils Kerkmann was honored by the German Geophysical Association (DGG) for his new and more convenient approach to identifying the permittivity of rock cuttings: A sample is scanned first using computed tomography. These images are then segmented by assigning different phases to the gray-scale intensities of the scanned sample. After deducing a digital twin, the model can be used to calculate the effective permittivity using a numerical solving algorithm.
March 2025: The field campaign in Thurgau, Switzerland has kicked off on the 3th of March. Eight colleagues from GeoHEAT and four volunteers set up 300 nodal seismic sensors across the Canton. The teams covered about 900 km2. At the beginning of April the sensors will be collected and then the team will start analyzing the data.
Oktober 2024: A core component of GeoHEAT is to develop a borehole radar tool that can function at high temperatures and pressures typical of deep geothermal reservoirs. Our first step is to design a low-temperature prototype to test several design novelties that goes into the tool. The overall system layout of this prototype is now completed.
September 2024: We have started our LinkedIn channel. Visit us on LinkedIn!
