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The 2026 SCITS Affiliates Meeting will be held from Monday, January 12, 2026 - Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at Stanford University. Registration is required.
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Monday, January 12, 2026
Ruth Wattis Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, Room 350/372
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 8:00 a.m. PST | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. PST | Session 1. Hydraulic Fracturing and EGS Stimulation | Eric Dunham |
| Microseismicity and Aseismic Slip in EGS Stimulation: Theoretical Models and Application to Cooper Basin | Natalia Berrios-Rivera | |
| Direct Observation of Fault-Zone Pore Pressure Evolution and Induced Slip During Hydraulic Fracturing at Fervo’s Cape Station EGS | Taeho Kim | |
| Mitigating Induced Seismicity in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): Influence of Pressure-sensitive Stimulated Fractures on Delayed Earthquakes | Yuan Tian | |
| Discussion | ||
| 10:30 a.m. PST | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 a.m. PST | Session 2. Wastewater Disposal | Bill Ellsworth |
| USGS Induced Seismicity Update | Rob Skoumal (USGS) | |
| Stress Evolution Analysis of Induced Seismicity Sequences in Kansas and Oklahoma | Rosie Ries | |
| Induced Earthquakes on Sub-Optimally Oriented Faults | Cheng Mei | |
| Plans for Modeling Midland Basin Induced Seismicity | Satoshi Ito / Eric Dunham | |
| Discussion | ||
| 12:45 p.m. PST | Lunch | |
| 1:45 p.m. PST | Session 3. Network Seismology | Greg Beroza |
| A Transformer Approach for Improved Focal Mechanism Determination | Xiaohan Song | |
| On the Reliability of Deep-Learning-Based Earthquake Catalogs | Leonardo Aguilar-Suarez | |
| Probabilistic Magnitude of Completeness and Quantifying the Variable Performance of Deep-Learning-Based Phase Picking | Jaehong Chung | |
| Source Parameters | Trey Knudson | |
| Discussion | ||
| 3:45 p.m. PST | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 p.m. PST | Session 4. CO2 | Paul Segall |
| Time-Lapse Full Waveform Inversion for CO2 Plume Monitoring | Haipeng Li | |
| Multiphase Flow Modeling with Fault Slip | Dimitri Trifunac | |
| Discussion | ||
| 5:00 p.m. PST | Dinner Reception |
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | Hartley Conference Center
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 8:00 a.m. PST | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. PST | Report from Advisory Committee | Shawn Maxwell |
| 9:30 a.m. PST | Session 5. Future Plans and Collaborations | |
| Overview of INPEX Activities | Michinori Asaka | |
| Overview of Seismicity at Fervo's Cape Station EGS project | Sireesh Dadi | |
| Presentations by other companies | Contact Eric Dunham if interested | |
| Open Discussion | ||
| 10:30 a.m. PST | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 a.m. PST | Informal Meetings | As desired. Please contact SCITS directors or program manager Tina Jeon to schedule |
| 12:00 p.m. PST | Meeting Concludes |
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