Phase I IUCRC at Virginia Tech: Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models (CASERM)

弗吉尼亚理工大学 IUCCRC 第一阶段：高级地下地球资源模型中心 (CASERM)

基本信息

批准号：
1822108
负责人：
Erik Westman
金额：
$ 75万
依托单位：
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822108&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Phase IUCRC Virginia Tech Center

项目摘要

Mining is intrinsic to modern society's transition to a sustainable existence. Meeting the global demand for earth resources represents a grand challenge. The Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models is a collaborative effort between Virginia Tech, Colorado School of Mines, and industry partners. The Center's activities will transform the way geoscience data are used in the exploration and mining industry sector, beginning with the mineral exploration stage and continuing through mine closure and environmental remediation. Research activities of the Center will fundamentally change the way global exploration and mining of natural resources is done, replacing industry experience- and empiricism-based decisions with innovative science and technology-based solutions that inform decision making, increase the chances of exploration success, and reduce financial risk. The goals of the Center will promote socio-economic prosperity and help to reduce the environmental impact of mining. Workforce development is an essential component of the Center activities and will include graduate and undergraduate students, and industry employee participation in research activities and training opportunities. The Center will strengthen and promote cross-disciplinary discoveries in geophysics, geochemistry, mineralogy, computational science and statistics. Knowledge transfer to the geothermal industry sector will form one of the Center?s key activities.The Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models is focused on advancing the exploration/mining industry sector through the establishment of a cooperative partnership that conducts pre-competitive research and workforce development of benefit to industry, academia, and society. The purpose and long-term vision of this Center is directed toward research challenges in the development of 3-D subsurface geologic models for mineral deposits, integrating diverse geoscience data, to inform decision making and minimize geological risk. Four research thrusts are envisioned: (1) development of geophysical and geochemical instrumentation, analysis and interpretation methods for enhanced characterization of rock properties; (2) integration, scaling, and inversion of diverse geological, petrophysical, and geophysical data of dissimilar spatial resolution and distribution to identify and characterize subsurface earth resources; (3) development of information methodologies for reducing risk associated with decision making; and (4) computational imaging and development of graphical and exploratory data analysis solutions and visualization tools. Achieving this broad vision requires collaborations from a broad range of disciplines. Virginia Tech's broad expertise in computational methods, high performance computing, mining engineering, fluids, seismic acquisition, imaging and inversion, tomographic imaging, and petrophysics combined with industry experience will allow for further mining-related advancements.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

采矿是现代社会向可持续存在的过渡的内在性。满足全球对地球资源的需求代表了一个巨大的挑战。高级地下地球资源模型的行业 - 大学合作研究中心是弗吉尼亚理工学院，科罗拉多州矿业学院和行业合作伙伴之间的合作努力。该中心的活动将改变地球科学数据在勘探和采矿行业中的使用方式，从矿产勘探阶段开始，并通过封闭和环境修复继续进行。该中心的研究活动将从根本上改变自然资源的全球探索和采矿的方式，以基于创新的科学和技术解决方案为基于经验和经验主义的决策取代基于经验和经验主义的决策，这些解决方案为决策提供了依据，增加了探索成功的机会，并提高了探索成功的机会以及降低财务风险。该中心的目标将促进社会经济繁荣，并有助于减少采矿的环境影响。劳动力发展是中心活动的重要组成部分，将包括研究生和本科生，以及行业员工参与研究活动和培训机会。该中心将加强和促进地球物理，地球化学，矿物学，计算科学和统计学方面的跨学科发现。知识转移到地热行业部门将构成该中心的关键活动之一。高级地下地球资源模型的重点是通过建立合作伙伴关系来推进勘探/采矿行业部门，该合作伙伴关系进行竞争前研究，并劳动力发展对工业，学术界和社会的利益。该中心的目的和长期愿景是针对研究矿物沉积物的3-D地下地质模型的研究挑战，将各种地球科学数据整合在一起，以告知决策并最大程度地减少地质风险。设想了四个研究推力：（1）开发地球物理和地球化学仪器，分析和解释方法，以增强岩石特性的特征；（2）各种地质，岩石物理和地球物理数据的集成，缩放和反转的空间分辨率和分布，以识别和表征地下地球资源；（3）开发信息方法，以减少与决策相关的风险；（4）计算成像以及图形和探索性数据分析解决方案和可视化工具的开发。实现这一广泛的愿景需要从广泛的学科中进行合作。弗吉尼亚理工学院在计算方法，高性能计算，采矿工程，流体，地震获取，成像和反转，层析成像成像和石油物理学结合行业经验的广泛专业知识将允许进一步的与采矿相关的进步。使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来支持。