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The plausibility of claimed induced seismicity (2024)
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Wilkinson, M., Mhana, N., Wilson, M. P., Foulger, G. R., Tezel, T., & Gluyas, J. G. (2024). The plausibility of claimed induced seismicity. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 30846. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81632-3

Claims of industrially induced seismicity vary from indisputable to unpersuasive and yet the veracity of industrial induction is vital for regulatory and operational practice. Assessment schemes have been developed in response to this need. We report... Read More about The plausibility of claimed induced seismicity.

Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT (2023)
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Wilson, M. P., Foulger, G. R., Wilkinson, M. W., Gluyas, J. G., Mhana, N., & Tezel, T. (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT. Seismological Research Letters, 94(5), 2111-2118. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230112

Freely available artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as the Chat Generative Pre‐trained Transformer (ChatGPT), offer an alternative method to online search engines for scientific results and opinions to be automatically collated into concise sum... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT.

Human-Induced Earthquakes: The Performance of Questionnaire Schemes (2022)
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Foulger, G. R., Wilkinson, M. W., Wilson, M. P., & Gluyas, J. G. (2022). Human-Induced Earthquakes: The Performance of Questionnaire Schemes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 112(6), 2773-2794. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220079

Questionnaire schemes are commonly used to investigate whether or not certain earthquakes were induced by industrial activity. Such schemes are subjective and cannot be assumed to give the “right” answer in a scientifically rigorous sense. They only... Read More about Human-Induced Earthquakes: The Performance of Questionnaire Schemes.

The heat recovery potential of ‘wastewater’: a national analysis of sewage effluent discharge temperatures (2021)
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Wilson, M., & Worrall, F. (2021). The heat recovery potential of ‘wastewater’: a national analysis of sewage effluent discharge temperatures. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 7(10), https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ew00411e

Final sewage effluent (FSE) is typically warmer than the rivers it is often discharged to. The excess heat energy could be recovered and utilised to help meet climate change targets. Using data from England for 2000–2019, we show that FSE temperature... Read More about The heat recovery potential of ‘wastewater’: a national analysis of sewage effluent discharge temperatures.

Suitability of Legacy Subsurface Data for Nascent Geoenergy Activities Onshore United Kingdom (2021)
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Ireland, M. T., Brown, R., Wilson, M. P., Stretesky, P. B., Kingdon, A., & Davies, R. J. (2021). Suitability of Legacy Subsurface Data for Nascent Geoenergy Activities Onshore United Kingdom. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.629960

The decarbonization of energy systems to achieve net zero carbon emissions will likely see the rapid development of carbon capture and storage, energy storage in the subsurface and geothermal energy projects. Subsurface data, in particular seismic re... Read More about Suitability of Legacy Subsurface Data for Nascent Geoenergy Activities Onshore United Kingdom.

Compartmentalisation and groundwater‐surface water interactions in a prospective shale gas basin: Assessment using variance analysis and multivariate statistics on water quality data (2020)
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Wilson, M. P., Worrall, F., Clancy, S. A., Ottley, C. J., Hart, A., & Davies, R. J. (2020). Compartmentalisation and groundwater‐surface water interactions in a prospective shale gas basin: Assessment using variance analysis and multivariate statistics on water quality data. Hydrological Processes, 34(15), 3271-3294. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13795

An environmental concern with hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is the risk of groundwater and surface water contamination. Assessing this risk partly involves the identification and understanding of groundwater‐surface water interactions because po... Read More about Compartmentalisation and groundwater‐surface water interactions in a prospective shale gas basin: Assessment using variance analysis and multivariate statistics on water quality data.

A dynamic baseline for dissolved methane in English groundwater (2019)
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Wilson, M., Worrall, F., Davies, R., & Hart, A. (2020). A dynamic baseline for dissolved methane in English groundwater. Science of the Total Environment, 711, Article 134854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134854

Elevated dissolved methane (CH4) concentrations in groundwater are an environmental concern associated with hydraulic fracturing for shale gas. Therefore, determining dissolved CH4 baselines is important for detecting and understanding any potential... Read More about A dynamic baseline for dissolved methane in English groundwater.

Identifying groundwater compartmentalisation for hydraulic fracturing risk assessments (2018)
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Wilson, M., Worrall, F., Davies, R., & Hart, A. (2019). Identifying groundwater compartmentalisation for hydraulic fracturing risk assessments. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 21(2), 352-369. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8em00300a

An environmental concern with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is that injected fluids or formation fluids could migrate upwards along high-permeability faults and contaminate shallow groundwater resources. However, numerical modelling has suggested t... Read More about Identifying groundwater compartmentalisation for hydraulic fracturing risk assessments.

Fracking: How far from faults? (2018)
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Wilson, M., Worrall, F., Davies, R., & Almond, S. (2018). Fracking: How far from faults?. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 4(2), 193-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40948-018-0081-y

Induced earthquakes and shallow groundwater contamination are two environmental concerns associated with the interaction between hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations and geological faults. To reduce the risks of fault reactivation and faults ac... Read More about Fracking: How far from faults?.

Shallow Aquifer Vulnerability From Subsurface Fluid Injection at a Proposed Shale Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Site (2017)
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Wilson, M., Worrall, F., Davies, R., & Hart, A. (2017). Shallow Aquifer Vulnerability From Subsurface Fluid Injection at a Proposed Shale Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Site. Water Resources Research, 53(11), 9922-9940. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017wr021234

Groundwater flow resulting from a proposed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operation was numerically modeled using 91 scenarios. Scenarios were chosen to be a combination of hydrogeological factors that a priori would control the long-term migration... Read More about Shallow Aquifer Vulnerability From Subsurface Fluid Injection at a Proposed Shale Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Site.