Keynote Speakers - Opening Session
Frank van Erp, MSc and Peter-Paul Lebbink, MSc
Frank van Erp and Peter-Paul Lebbink are jointly responsible for defining a site soil conditions package in the Dutch Roadmap towards 2030. Both have a 25 years background in renewables, respectively marine geology/geophysics.The Dutch government did set a goal of a 40% cost reduction for offshore energy in 2024 compared to 2014. This goal has been achieved ahead of time by executing the Roadmap 2023 and 2030. Frank and Peter-Paul have contributed significantly to this by providing state of the art site soil studies to potential developers, which have de-risked the installation and operations in the Dutch sector.
De-risking soil conditions in Offshore Wind Energy
The Dutch Government has a significant role in the development of Offshore Wind Energy. Governmental body Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) is responsible for executing the site studies and for the permit tender to build and operate a wind farm. In defining site conditions RVO has set new standards with cutting-edge techniques. RVO will present her approach and aims at challenging the EAGE community in defining next steps to come to further improvements.
Valentina Socco
Laura Valentina Socco is Associate Professor of Geophysics at Politecnico di Torino, where she took her civil engineering MSc and her PhD. She works on seismic surface wave analysis and geophysical data integration. Since 2007 she has been in charge of the Geophysics Lab of PoliTO. She has been chosen as Honorary Lecturer by the SEG (2013). In 2014 Dr Socco has received the Conrad Schlumberger Award (EAGE). She was member of the Editor Board of Geophysics from 2003 to 2017 and Editor in Chief of Geophysics from 2017 to 2019. She was Associate Editor of Near Surface Geophysics from 2005 to 2013. She received a honourable mention in the category best paper in Geophysics in 2012, 2013 and 2016. She has been member of Research Committee and Education Committee of EAGE and Distinguished Lecturer Committee of SEG and chair-person of the Near Surface Division Committee of EAGE and member of EAGE Board (2014-16). Dr Socco is Chair of the Education College of Environment and Land Engineering at Politecnico di Torino since 2018. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Educator award of SEG (2019).
Seismic surface wave tomography from active and passive data
Surface wave analysis has become a very popular seismic characterization method in the last two decades in various field of environment and engineering. Most of the applications are based on multichannel analysis to obtain local dispersion curves which are inverted for local 1D VS models. On the other hand, in the field of global and regional seismology, surface wave generated by earthquakes or other sources of ambient noise are traditionally used in tomographic frameworks to map the velocity distribution in the earth crust. Recently, surface wave tomography, based on the inversion of two-station path-average dispersion curves, is attracting the attention of near surface geophysicists as a tool for estimating high resolution velocity models of the shallow subsurface. The possibility of merging active and passive data and using irregular patterns of receivers makes surface wave tomography suitable for a large range of application and site conditions. The large number of path-average dispersion curves to be picked and inverted constitutes a resource, because the information redundancy provides robust and high resolution models, but also require automation and optimization.
Jun Sugawara
Jun Sugawara is Director of Geotechnical Section at Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Government, Australia. He previously served as a geotechnical and landslide expert for Geoscientists Without Border project in Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, and worked for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bosnia & Herzegovina as an international consultant.
Characteristics of landslides in Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina
In this presentation, Jun Sugawara will share his experience gained during his work associated with many landslides which occurred in Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2014. He will describe the nature and significance of the damage sustained by this area, along with the landslide mechanism and the potential mitigation measures which will be useful in this area.
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