Project

The overarching goal of the Geo-INQUIRE project is to foster interoperability and cross-disciplinary research by providing physical and remote access to installations and data sets. The BedrettoLab is one of 30 European testbeds in the Geo-INQUIRE project that will provide access to selected users to use the lab infrastructure for testing new sensors or novel data acquisition techniques. Experiments can be accommodated during upcoming stimulation experiments or as a dedicated experiment setup. Access costs of external users are covered by Geo-INQUIRE, including the necessary training, equipment and consumables, support personnel, travel and subsistence support. In return, users must share openly the data collected and processed during the experiment, following the FAIR data principles. 

Three Transnational Access (TA) projects were conducted along the ongoing BEACH experiment, providing complementary measurements and establishing new research collaborations:

1. Dr. Nadine Haaf and Dr. Jerome Azzola, from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), monitored electric self-potential and fiber-optic DAS, DSS, and DTS of fluid-driven fault dynamics, adding a new piece of scientific information to the FEAR2 experiment. 
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2. Prof. Joerg Renner from Ruhr-Universität Bochum investigated the intervals of ST1 during pauses in the heat storage cycles and in intervals of the MB2 monitoring system alongside the heat-storage cycles (injection and production). These observations were complementary to the BEACH experiment. 
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3. Prof. Dr. Gregor Hillers (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) had remote access to seismic data newly developed coda wave change inversion approach.
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