Dr Charlotte Botter

Profile

I am a Lecturer in Geoscience focusing primarly on subsurface characterisation for georesources, with a keen interest on fault zone and fluid flow characterisation.

• I am the Programme Leader for the MSc Exploration Geophysics.
• I am the leader of the Basins and Georesources Research Cluster, working closely with postgraduates, early career researchers and staff within the Institute of Applied Geoscience.
• I am the Primary Investigator for the Geosolutions research project Unlocking the Potential of Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns in the Central North Sea
• I hold a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
• I am on a Teaching and Scholarship track, part of the Curriculum Redefined University Strategy.
• I currently am module leader and teach Seismic Data Interpretation at MSc level and Geothermal Energy: Engineering, Societal and Governance Challenges at Level 3.

Background

I completed my PhD in 2016 at the University of Stavanger on Seismic Imaging of Fault Zones (2012-2016, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, NFR-PETROMAKS 210425). We used forward modelling methods to study the impact of faults on seismic images in order to improve their representation and characterisation. My Phd was under the supervision and in collaboration of Professor Nestor Cardozo (University of Stavanger), Dr Isabelle Lecomte (University of Bergen - NORSAR), Dr Stuart Hardy (University of Barcelona), Dr Gaynor Payton (GeoTeric) and Prof. Atle Rotevatn (University of Bergen). I did a 6-month postdoctoral project part of SEISBARS, in collaboration with UniResearch CIPR (Drs Jan Tveranger and Dongfang Qu), and the Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (Novosibirsk, Russia) (Prof. Vladimir Cheverda, Dr Dmitriy Kolyukhin) to work on seismic characterisation of fault facies models. In 2017, I joined DIAS (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) as a postdoctoral researcher on the thermodynamic and rheological modelling of lithosphere underneath the Porcupine Basin (offshore Ireland).

I started at the University of Leeds in January 2018 as a Teaching Fellow in Applied Geosciences and I have been teaching in various postgraduate and undergraduate modules.

Current supervision

PDRA (postdoc):

• Katerina Kyrkou. Geosolutions’ project: Unlocking the potential of Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns in the Central North Sea

PGRs (PhDs)

• Ebizimo Debekeme
• Hager Elattar

Responsibilities

• Curriculum Redefined Lecturer
• Basins and Georesources Research Cluster Lead
• Programme Leader MSc Exploration Geophysics

Research interests

Subsurface Characterisation for Georesources, such as Hydrogen Storage, Geothermal

Main interests:

• Seismic characterisation of faults (using seismic attributes)
• Geomechanical modelling (discrete element method) of faults and strain analysis
• Ray-based forward seismic modelling of faults
• Rock physics applied to faulting in siliclastic rocks
• Basin modelling
• Geodymamic modelling: integrated geophysical and rheological modelling of the lithosphere (developement of a module to compute a laterally variable elastic thickness of the lithosphere)

Awards and grants:

• Geosolution: Unlocking the Potential of Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns in the Central North Sea
• Best Young presenter at the EAGE Fourth International Conference on Fault and Top Seals in Almeria, Spain. 20-24 September 2015
• Paper “The effect of fluid flow in relay ramps on seismic images over production time” selected for the “Best of Petroleum Geoscience dedicated session” at the Conference: 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017.
• Participation in the writing of the SEISBARS project (grant no. 233646) funded through the NORRUSS program of the Norwegian Research Council.
• PACE travel grant for the Conference: 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Stavanger
• MSc, Civil Engineering in Numerical Geology, National School of Geographic Sciences (ENSG)
• BSc, Engineering Science, Speciality Geoscience, National School of Geographic Sciences (ENSG)

Professional memberships

• FHEA (Fellowship of Higher Education)
• EAGE

Student education

Currently:

• Programme Leader MSc Exploration Geophysics
• Module Leader SOEE3020 Geothermal Energy: Engineering, Societal and Governance Challenges
• Module Leader SOEE5245 Seismic Data Interpretation

2022-23

• Spring 23: Interim Programme Leader for MSc Exploration Geophysics
• Module Leader SOEE5171 Seismic interpretation and sequence stratigraphy
• Teaching Structural model and case study for the MSc Structural geology with geophysics

2018-2021 (semester 2)

• Module leader for SOEE5171: Seismic interpretation and sequence stratigraphy
• Lecturing seismic interpretation and sequence stratigraphy on seismic data for the modules SOEE5171 and SOEE5174
• Lecturing seismic interpetation and sequence stratigraphy for the undegraduate module SOEE3740

2018, I was lecturing:

• Seismic interpretation (SOEE5171-5174M)
• Sequence stratigraphy on seismic data (SOEE5171-5174M)
• Petroleum Geology (SOEE5129-5132M)

Previously (2014-2015, two years):

• Lecturing Petrophysics/Introduction to well logging (BSc courses at the University of Stavanger)

Research groups and institutes

• Institute of Applied Geoscience
• Geosolutions Leeds