Persons involved in the Project

Is the National German Research Centre for Earth Sciences. With about 880 employees, of whom more than 400 are scientists, the research is carried out through integrated multi- and interdisciplinary research programs. As the first of its kind world-wide, the GFZ combines all solid earth science fields including geodesy, geology, geophysics, mineralogy and geochemistry, in a multidisciplinary research centre. 26 sections are organised in five departments according to the main topics of the GFZ: Geodesy and Remote sensing, Physics of the Earth, Geodynamics and Geomaterials, Chemistry and Material Cycles, Earth Surface Processes. Research is accomplished by the use of a broad spectrum of methods and techniques, such as satellite geodesy and remote sensing, geophysical deep sounding, scientific drilling, experiments under in-situ conditions and modelling of geoprocesses. The GFZ plays a key role in global communication in the geosciences bundling individual research activities into major joint programs, both nationally and internationally. The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP, the European Lake Drilling Program ELDP, the International GPS Service for Geodynamics and the GEOFON Project are only some prominent examples of international cooperation in which the GFZ plays a leading role. Research in the section Reservoir Technolgies (formerly: Geothermics) covers petrophysical methods, analyses of temperature fields, and utilisation of geothermal resources. Interdisciplinary projects are focused on natural and artificial transport processes in the upper and lower Earth's crust. For this purpose process parameters and interactions of petrophysically controlled processes are studied. The measurement and interpretation of temperature and pressure data, hydraulic, elastic, electrical, and thermal parameters of rocks and their variation within the lithosphere are main topics. GFZ is the co-ordinator of the project. It acquires and processes magnetotelluric and seismic 3C AVO data as well as multiazimuthal data. Laboratory rock physics will be performed at GFZ’s high pressure- high temperature facilities.

• Co-ordinator of the Project and of specific WP1, WP3
• Methodology for geomechanical and petrophysical rock analysis
• Methodology for numerical rock physics
• Best practice for acquisition and processing of magnetotelluric data
• Acquisition and processing of 3C AVO multiazimuth seismic data
• Dissemination

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