Civil and Mining Engineering

Stability of underground excavations (tunnels, mines, caverns, shafts, stopes, haulages)

Drilling and blasting

Pillar design

Design of support systems

Prediction of rock bursts

Fluid flow and contaminant transport

Dams

Slope stability

Energy development

Borehole stability and deviation

Borehole deformation and failure

Fracturing and fracture propagation

Fluid flow and geothermal problems

Reservoir production management

Energy extraction and storage

Geology/Geophysics

Orogeny

Earthquake prediction

Plate tectonics

Neotectonics

Structural geology

Volcanology

Glaciation