Agile at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting 2024

Joseph Asplet, a postdoctoral researcher who worked on the Sprint “How do we safely store CO₂ beneath our shelf seas?”, recently attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual meeting 2024.

AGU is one of the largest conferences in the Earth and space Sciences, typically attracting >25,000 attendees from over 100 countries to share their latest research, network with scientists from around the world, and to catch up with former colleagues or professors. The conference attracts scientists from a wide range of disciplines, from geodynamicists studying earth’s core to social scientists studying how we can effectively communicate science to different audiences. This diversity makes AGU a fantastic melting pot for generating new ideas to push forward our scientific knowledge.  In 2024 the conference was held on December 9^th-13^th in the Walter E. Washington convention centre in Washington, D.C., with the conference theme “What’s next for Science?”

Joseph was kept very busy at AGU2024. He presented a poster giving an overview of the Agile program and the Sprint “How do we safely store CO₂ beneath our shelf seas?” in a session on “Science for Policy” and also gave a talk on his research in the project assessing the potential of onshore seismic arrays to monitor low magnitude (M < 2) earthquakes which may arise during offshore CO₂ projects in a session on “Geological Carbon Storage”. In the same session he presented related work from another project on how data from these low magnitude earthquakes can be used the gain information about the state of stress of rocks. Finally, he also took the time to dive back into his PhD research and co-convened the session “Exploring Innovations and New Directions in Seismic Anisotropy and Attenuation: Observations, Models and Experiments”. For an early career scientist, attending AGU to participate in the global scientific community and promote your research is a fantastic opportunity and Agile are pleased we were able to support Joseph in attending this conference.

Download Joseph’s poster on ‘Policy for Science’, his poster on ‘Seismic Anisotropy as a Measure of In Situ Stress for Safe CO2 Storage’, and his presentation ‘Onshore passive seismic monitoring for offshore CO2 storage projects’.

Learn more about the research by visiting the page How do we safely store CO₂ beneath our shelf seas?, and check out the Sprint’s research report and policy brief.