Brann Johnson: Director, Center for Tectonophysics and Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics
- Research focus / responsibilities: Overall project management; core drilling program, multilevel groundwater monitoring system installation; hydraulic field tests: full reservoir pump tests, cross-fault pressure-transient tests, tracer tests; core-scale permeability measurements; field-based, mechanistic models of fault development.
Tom Blasingame: Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research focus / responsibilities: Analytical and numerical analysis of reservoir-scale well tests and cross-fault interference well tests.
Akhil Datta-Gupta: Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research focus / responsibilities: Stochastic inverse modeling of cross-fault pressure-transient and tracer tests between boreholes; geostatistical characterization of permeability fields of reservoir lithofacies.
Mark Everett: Associate Professor of Geophysics
- Research focus / responsibilities: Electromagnetic induction methods for surface and borehole geophysical characterization of reservoir; inverse analysis of geophysical data.
Rick Gibson: Assistant Professor of Geophysics
- Research focus / responsibilities: Crosshole and borehole seismic imaging experiments and inverse analysis to characterize fault and reservoir in region between boreholes.
Dave Wiltschko: Professor of Geology
- Research focus / responsibilities: Structural development of faults and microstructures in clay-rich shear zones of faults.
Fred Chester: Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics
- Research focus / responsibilities: Structural development of faults and characterization of shear zone structure of faults; experimental rock deformation.
Renald Guillemette: Associate Research Scientist, Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Research focus / responsibilities: Electron microscopy and microprobe analysis; imaging analysis of microstructures of fault rocks from shear zones.