Evert Duran graduated with fellow PAL members Jami Johnson-Shepherd and Sam Hitchman in the May Graduation Ceremony! Congratulations to all of them and all we wish them all best as they develop their post-doctoral lives. Evert, Kasper and I are very proud of your doctoral achievements!

Many congratulations to Shreya Kanakiya and Steve Brennan for receiving scholarships and awards that support their research! We thank all these entities and societies for their support. In less than a year Shreya has received the following scholarships: Chevron-SEG Student Leadership Programme, Society of Exploration Geophysics, 2019 Hutton Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand, 2019. Read More…

Congratulations to Evert for the acceptance of his 3rd an final paper of his PhD dissertation. Well done to get all your publications out! The paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research is entitled “Mineral Alteration and Fracture Influence on the Elastic Properties of Volcaniclastic Rocks” and can be found in this link.

Congratulations to James Clarke for an outstanding achievement by publishing the first part of his doctoral research in Geology! He studied the influence of fluid viscosity on seismic (acoustic) emissions signatures with implications on volcano monitoring. HERE IS THE LINK TO THE PAPER

Dear all, please congratulate Evert on the acceptance of this 2nd manuscript from his PhD thesis. The manuscript entitled “A robust methodology for time-picking and error analysis of ultrasonic waveforms and rock densities in the laboratory” is now published in Geophysics. The code to perform such analysis is freely available to the community from HERE Read More…

Congratulations to Shreya for receiving the UoA R N Brothers Memorial Award! “The award is intended to assist a postgraduate research student to undertake field-based geological research in New Zealand or the SW Pacific”. We are delighted with Shreya’s and other PORO lab and PAL students’ successes with scholarships and awards.

Congrats to Shreya, James and Jonathan! Please follow this link to the PAL announcement

Last Monday Evert defended his PhD thesis. It was a great pleasure to witness such an important academic moment, and to see Evert discuss — with confidence and deep knowledge — questions from the examiners. Evert’s research characterized micro- and macro-scale fractures (and indirectly permeability) in Ngatamariki Geothermal field by combining lab and field data. Read More…

  Once more, Steve Brennan has received an award. This time he has been awarded the SEG/Norman & Shirley Domenico Scholarship. Many congratulations! We hope Steve’s research contributions will follow Norm Domenico’s rock physics footsteps.   Norman Domenico (1925-2011) Source: wiki.seg.org