Nick Ackerley

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Analyste Sismique
  • Localiser les événements sismiques et maintenir la base de données nationale de séismes
  • Fournir des informations officielles sur les tremblements de terre au Canada
  • Développer des outils et des méthodologies améliorés pour caractériser les séismes 

Recherche et / ou projets en cours

Détection et caractérisation d'événements sismiques.

Effets subtils d'instrumentation de sismographe.

Génération des séries temporelles de déformation sur les volcans en utilisant InSAR.

Prix et études

B.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Physics Minor, University of Waterloo

M.Sc. Engineering Seismology, Université Joseph Fourier / Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
 

Principales publications

Ackerley, N., Bird, A. L., Kolaj, M., Kao, H., & Lamontagne, M. (2022). Procedures for Seismic Event Type Discrimination at the Canadian Hazards Information Service. Geological Survey of the Canada, Open File 8253, Version 1.0, 39 pages. doi:10.4095/329613

Ackerley, N., Peci, V., Adams, J., & Halchuk, S. (2021, November). Seismic Activity in the Northern Ontario Portion of the Canadian Shield: Annual Progress Report for the Period January 1 - December 31, 2019. NWMO-TR-2021-10. Toronto: Nuclear Waste Management Organization. https://www.nwmo.ca/~/media/Site/Reports/2022/03/08/21/31/NWMOTR202110.ashx?la=en 

Ackerley, N., Adams, J., Peci, V. & Halchuk, S. (2021, February). Bruce Deep Geologic Repository Seismic Monitoring - Annual Report 2019. Toronto: Ontario Power Generation.

Rao, A., Dutta, D., Kalita, P., Ackerley, N., Silva, V., Raghunandan, M., . . . Dasgupta, K. (2020). Probabilistic seismic risk assessment of India. Earthquake Spectra, 36(1), 345-371. doi:10.1177/8755293020957374

Ackerley, N., Kolaj, M., Peci, V., & Adams, J. (2019). Recent advances in long-term seismic monitoring and hazard assessment in northern Ontario. Proceedings of the 4th Canadian Conference on Nuclear Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Restoration (p. 12). Ottawa: Canadian Nuclear Society.

Bent, A., Kolaj, M., Ackerley, N., Adams, J., & Halchuk, S. (2018). The 2017 Barrow Strait, Arctic Canada, Earthquake Sequence and Contemporaneous Regional Seismicity. Seism. Res. Lett., 89(5), 1977-1988. doi:10.1785/0220180100

Brenguier, F., Kowalski, P., Ackerley, N., Nakata, N., Boué, P., Campillo, M., . . . Roux, P. (2016). Toward 4D noise-based seismic probing of volcanoes: Perspectives from a large-N experiment on Piton de la Fournaise Volcano. Seism. Res. Lett, 87(1), 15-25. doi:10.1785/0220150173

Ackerley, N. (2015). Principles of broadband seismometry. In E. Patelli, I. A. Kougioumtzoglou, S.-K. Au, & M. Beer, Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (p. 35). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_172

Ackerley, N., Setterfield, T., and Hayman, M. (2013). Capacitive displacement transducer for a weak-motion inertial sensor. US Patent 8,544,325

Ackerley, N. (2012). Estimating the spectra of small events for the purpose of evaluating microseismic detection thresholds. Geo-Convention (pp. 1-10). Calgary: Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Forbriger, T. R.-S., Wielandt, E., Hayman, M., & Ackerley, N. (2010). Magnetic field background variations can limit the resolution of seismic broad-band sensors. Geophysical Journal International, 183(1), 303-312. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04719.x

Ackerley, N. and Bainbridge, G. (2009). Inertial sensor having a flexing element supporting a movable mass. US Patent 7,594,438