Biography

Chet Hopp is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Energy Geoscience Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research interests include the relationship between seismicity and subsurface energy applications (conventional geothermal reservoirs, enhanced geothermal, CO₂ storage). He uses passive seismic monitoring networks, high-precision displacement probes (SIMFIP) and other borehole monitoring data to relate injection-induced changes in the reservoir to the occurrence and characteristics of microearthquakes. His other research interests include the seismic monitoring of volcanoes, waveform-based event detection algorithms and open-source software development.