Edward Cottell — software developer. Mr. Cottell completed his undergraduate work and earned a Master's in Aerospace Engineering at Liverpool University. During his time at Liverpool, he worked on projects ranging from targeting and tracking algorithms to flight dynamics and control. Mr. Cottell also studied programming at Bristol University and graduated with a Master's in Computer Science. His current work involves the implementation of new features and future developments for the InSite seismic processor.
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William Flynn — applied geophysics & instrumentation. Dr. Flynn is an applied physicist with a diverse technical background and several years’ experience in industrial and academic environments, and development of instrumentation and measurement systems. During his Ph.D. at Cambridge University, he worked on the development of instrumentation for measuring atmospheric trace species. Post-Ph.D., he joined the Planetary Sciences Group at Oxford University, where he worked on the development of a microseismometer network for planetary science programs. In his current role at ASC, Dr. Flynn will test microseismic and acoustic emission instrumentation and head new development efforts.
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Jonathan Haycox — geophysics and systems engineering. Jon Haycox is a Geophysicist with experience processing and interpreting seismic data at all scales, specializing in the application of microseismic and acoustic emission techniques to the petroleum and radwaste sectors. He has undertaken field work worldwide, including real-time processing of hydrofracture data, and provides training and support to InSite users. In his Systems Engineer role, Jon supervises the successful operation and development of ASC’s office in Shrewsbury, UK, and the administration of all project operations. He is the Quality Engineer of ASC’s ISO 9001:2000 certified quality-management system.
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Amy Haynes — geophysics.. Miss Haynes is a geophysicist with experience in processing microseismic data and acoustic emissions. She completed her Masters degree in Geophysics at the University of Liverpool, studying for a year at the University of Toronto. She currently is involved in processing natural and induced microseismic data from field and lab studies across a range of operating sectors.
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Junwei Huang — microseismicity. Dr. Huang specializes in modeling, processing and interpreting seismic data from microseismicity and controlled source seismic exploration, and in developing high-performance processing algorithms for surface and borehole microseismic monitoring. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Toronto on numerical simulation of gas hydrate reservoirs and seismic imaging of highly heterogeneous media using geostatistics and finite-difference and finite-element method. Dr. Huang has developed high-level expertise in seismic travel-time tomography to map subsurface velocity in complex geological environments and in programming distributed memory supercomputers for seismic waveform and source inversion. His algorithm developments are focused on harvesting multiple CPU computing capacities to optimize seismic survey and to increase the effectiveness of passive seismic source location and source parameter inversion without arrival pickings.
Edmund Hughes — software engineering. Mr. Hughes is a software engineer with a background in Physics with over 20 years of experience. He has developed software using programming languages such as C/C++, C# and VB.NET and has made extensive use of technologies such as MFC, OpenGL, SQL Server and ASP.NET on a windows platform. In his current role, he has worked extensively on enhancing the InSite software, an integrated tool for microseismic acquisition, processing, data management and visualization, and on developing InSiteDB, a new database tool for remotely networking InSite users and sharing microseismic results.
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Heléna Moretti — observational seismology.. Ms. Moretti specializes in processing raw data waveforms from both natural regional seismicity, and induced microseismicity. She completed her Masters degree in Geophysical Hazards at University College London where she investigated the rock mechanics leading to bulk rock failure at reawakening volcanoes. Ms. Moretti has experience in microseismic monitoring of experimental nuclear waste facilities, regional earthquake characterization and the processing of induced seismicity for hydrofracture stimulation of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
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Juan Reyes-Montes — geophysics. Dr. Reyes-Montes is a geophysicist who specializes in advanced processing and interpretation of microseismic data across ASC’s range of operating sectors. Dr. Reyes-Montes develops new processing techniques and implements these into ASC’s software solutions. He has focused on applying relative location of microseismic data and statistical analysis of fracture information from seismicity clouds to the interpretation of caving-induced fracturing, underground storage feasibility and efficiency of hydraulic fracturing campaigns, particularly for correlation of observed data with numerical simulations in synthetic rock models.
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Teresa Young — personnel and project management, financial planning. Mrs. Young has been Director of ASC since it was founded almost 12 years ago. She has overall responsibility for management of all aspects of ASC’s activities. She brings over 25 years experience as a Chartered Psychologist and has developed comprehensive systems for management of projects, finance, personnel, performance reviews and target setting for both individuals and the company. She is the interface between ASC and industry, and is its principle business negotiator.
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Xueping Zhao — geophysics & numerical Modeling. Dr. Zhao is a geophysicist with a background in seismology and geomechanics. He has over 10 years of experience, specializing in enhancing the interpretation of hydraulic fracture-induced microseismic data using an S-wave Gaussian-beam location method and numerical modeling techniques for interpretation, and in processing and interpreting geophysical and geological data for hydrocarbon potential evaluations. Dr. Zhao is the author/co-author of over 20 academic and technical articles. His current role involves seismic data processing and interpretation on induced microseismicity and acoustic emissions, the development of advanced processing algorithms for ASC’s InSite Seismic Processor, and numerical simulations of fracturing processes with synthetic seismicity.
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