We would like to invite you to the continuation of the seminar series “The Dynamic Planet Earth.”
Max Moorkamp (Technische Universität Berlin)
Volcanoes, tectonic plates and all the rest: Understanding the subsurface of the Earth with multi-physics imaging
Date: February 5
Time: 3:00 PM
Venue: Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Boční II 1401, Prague 4 – Spořilov
Dr. Moorkamp holds the Chair of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics at the Technical University of Berlin. His main area of research is the integration of different geophysical datasets for earth imaging. He has extensive experience in acquiring magnetotelluric data in areas around the world and has developed methodologies to jointly invert magnetotellurics with other geophysical datasets and geological constraints.
Geophysical models are one of the main ways that we can understand the subsurface of the Earth. However, they are typically generated through inversion of sparse and noisy data and, as a consequence, suffer from artefacts and ambiguous results. One of the approaches to alleviate these issues is the combination of different geophysical methods in a single
inversion algorithm, typically termed multiphysics inversion or joint inversion. Here one of the major challenges is to establish meaningful connections between distinct physical parameters, e.g. electrical conductivity and seismic velocity. I will discuss the challenges and successes of multi-imaging approaches and show examples from our ongoing work that
illustrate how multi-physics imaging can help to improve our understanding of the Earth.
