Associated Event
16–18 November 2027 | Perth, Western Australia
Calibration, Validation and Correlation of Numerical Modelling of Seismicity Workshop
15 November 2027 | Perth, Western Australia
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Workshop Facilitators
Dr Daniel Cumming-Potvin
Project Lead – mXrap
Australian Centre for Geomechanics
Daniel completed his Bachelor of Mining Engineering and PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He has worked at a number of underground metal mines in Australia, specialising in the areas of ground support, monitoring, and mine seismicity. He is project lead for mXrap.
Professor Johan Wesseloo
Professor and Director
Australian Centre for Geomechanics
Since obtaining a BEng (civil) and MEng (geotechnical) from The University of Pretoria, Johan has been involved in geotechnical engineering in open pit and underground environments throughout 14 countries. He commenced his career in 1998 as a geotechnical engineer at SRK Consulting, Johannesburg where he was involved in open pit and underground projects in varying geotechnical conditions. In 2005 he was awarded a PhD (geotechnical) from The University of Pretoria. Johan joined the Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG) in 2007 as a research fellow. During his time at the ACG, Johan has been involved in research, the supervision of postgraduate students and geotechnical training. He also performs geotechnical and mining-induced seismicity reviews providing him with the valuable opportunity to visit numerous operations worldwide. Johan was instrumental in the development of the mXrap software and many of the software routines and apps available in that platform. In 2019, Johan was appointed director of the ACG.
Workshop Presenters
Dr Dima Malovichko
Director and Head of Applied Seismicity
Institute of Mine Seismicity, Australia
Dmitriy is the director and head of Applied Seismology of IMS. He has a PhD in Physics and Mathematical Science from the Institute of Physics of the Earth (Moscow, Russia). From 2000 until 2009, he worked at the Mining Institute (Perm, Russia) and was involved in regional seismic monitoring, local seismic observations in potash mines and karst caves, and engineering seismology projects. In 2009, he joined ISSI (South Africa), which later became the Institute of Mine Seismology (South Africa, Australia and Canada). He is responsible for seismological services for mines (interpretation of seismicity, investigation of large or damaging seismic events) and is involved in research projects in mine seismology. Dmitriy is interested in inferring information about seismic sources from seismic signals, the integration of seismic monitoring data with stress modelling, and the assessment of seismic and rockburst hazards associated with planned mining. Working with Newcrest Mining and others, he has developed the Rockburst Hazard Assessment (RBHA) methodology.
Dr Aleksander Mendecki
Chairman
Institute of Mine Seismology, South Africa