Kristopher Innanen, University of Calgary

Research

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Latest funding

Low-cost 4D seismic monitoring of subsurface CO2 geo-storage
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$1,960,000
Full waveform seismic monitoring of CO2 injection and storage with broadband and fiberoptic sensors
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$225,000
Modeling and Online Optimization of Hard Rock Drilling for Advanced Geothermal Systems
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$584,667

All 8 grants and awards

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Low-cost 4D seismic monitoring of subsurface CO2 geo-storage

Principal investigatorNSERC2025Advantage

Principal investigators: Innanen, Kristopher

Keywords: Energy resources (including production, exploration, processing, distribution and use); Oil, gas and coal

$1,960,000

Full waveform seismic monitoring of CO2 injection and storage with broadband and fiberoptic sensors

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Innanen, Kristopher

Keywords: seismic; distributed acoustic sensing; monitoring; carbon capture utilization and storage; full waveform inversion; multiparameter; time-lapse; physics-guided machine learning

$225,000

Modeling and Online Optimization of Hard Rock Drilling for Advanced Geothermal Systems

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Kantzas, Apostolos A

Keywords: Digital Twin; Drilling Automation; Drillstring Dynamics; Geothermal Drilling; Hammer bit; Hard-rock drilling

$584,667

Quantitative characterization and monitoring of reservoir properties, pressures, fluids and fractures with multicomponent and quasi-continuous full-waveform seismology

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Innanen, Kristopher KAH

Keywords: Seismic acquisition; Seismic exploration; Seismic inversion; Seismic monitoring

$1,078,000

Determining the properties and states of a geological volume from seismic waveforms: an integration of novel theory with laboratory and field methods

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Innanen, Kristopher

$174,000

Towards broadband multicomponent seismology and practical iterated inversion

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Innanen, Kristopher

$2,143,000

An-elastic seismic inverse methods for geological monitoring and energy development

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Innanen, Kristopher

$85,000

Improved seismic imaging for reservoir monitoring and sustainable energy development

Co-investigatorNSERC2008Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Margrave, Gary

$2,852,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Innanen, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Low-cost 4D seismic monitoring of subsurface CO2 geo-storage" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]