The safe and sustainable use of the subsurface, whether in terms of energy (geothermal) or raw material (minerals) extraction, as well as the storage of nuclear waste or mining legacies, has become increasingly important for our society in recent years.
With our environmentally friendly geophysical methods for imaging underground structures and processes, we are contributing significantly to addressing these issues, which are particularly important in the context of global and regional climate change and access to critical raw materials for the energy transition.
In some projects, we use active seismic methods such as travel time tomography and reflection seismics to investigate the subsurface of underground observatories or geothermal sites. Or we analyse the ambient seismic noise, which we record with seismometer networks or optical fibre cables, to monitor dams from mining legacies. We use geoelectric methods in the context of mineral exploration, for example.
Current Projects
- MontTerri | SI-C Experiment
- GeoLaB | Seismic Exploration
- VECTOR | Vectors to Accessible Critical Raw Material Resources in Sedimentary Basins
- MOSMIN | Multiscale Observation Services for Mining-related Deposits
- GFK-Monitor | Fiber Optic Cable Monitoring
- DZA | Investigation of the 3D subsurface structure of the Lausitz region and characterization of the ambient seismic noise
- SENSEI | Smart European Networks for sensing the Environment and Internet Quality
- Focus site Iceland
- RissDom-A | 3D seismic experiment for geothermal exploration
- geoPuR | Efficient exploration of the geothermal potential in urban areas
- SENSE | Distributed fiber optic strain sensing along existing telecommunication networks for efficient seismic exploration and monitoring of geothermal reservoirs
Completed Projects