GEOELECTROMAGNETIC RESEARCH
CENTER IPE RAS
Viacheslav Spichak
WHO WE ARE?
• Geoelectromagnetic Research Center of the Institute of the Physics
of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences (GEMRC IPE RAS)
situated in the scientific center Troitsk just 20km South of Moscow
• Founded in 1993 as a spin-off from the famous Institute for
Geomagnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation
(IZMIRAN)
• 54 staff (22 staff at doctorate level)
• 5 Laboratories:
- magnetotellurics,
- interaction of EM field and rocks
- data interpretation methodology
- environmental studies
- marine EM,
GEMRC SCIENTIFIC PROFILE
• Theory, algorithms and numerical methods for modeling
and inversion of electromagnetic
inhomogeneous media;
data
in
• EM mapping of volcanoes and geothermal zones;
• EM monitoring macro-parameters of active
3-D
faults,
reservoirs, etc.;
• regional magnetotelluric studies;
• joint interpretaion of EM and other geophysical data
EM MAPPING VOLCANOES
• LEFT: EM image of the Kilauea volcano’s magma
chamber (Hawaii)
• RIGHT: conductivity model of the Komagatake volcano
(Hokkaido, Japan)
EM MAPPING FAULTED ZONES
• Minou fault zone
(Kyushu, Japan)
• Regional model of the
northern Tien-Shan
faulted area
EM MONITORING OF THE FAULT
MACRO-PARAMETERS
• LEFT: Fault model
• RIGHT: Recognition errors of the fault macro-parameters
depending on the noise level in the MT data
EM MAPPING GEOTHERMAL ZONES
• Volume resistivity image
of the Minamikayabe
geothermal area
(Hokkaido, Japan)
• Conductive clay cap
underlain by more
resistive reservoir
POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO
ENGINE
• Review on MT and seismics in geothermal
exploration (together with A. Manzella, Launching
conference)
• Methods of 3-D electromagnetic modeling and
imaging subsurface targets (WS 1)
• 3-D modeling magnetotelluric fields in geothermal
systems (WS 2)
POSSIBLE COLLABORATION
• Construction of 3-D electrical resistivity models of the
geothermal areas taking into account the EM data, prior
geological and geophysical info and formalized expert’s
experience
• Modeling of MT monitoring of the reservoir macroparameters
• Development of 3-D temperature models of the
geothermal zones from well records and estimation of the
correlation with the resistivity distribution