Geostatistical cascade modeling of Mineral Resources is challenging in vein-type gold deposits. The narrow shape and long-range features of these auriferous veins, coupled with the paucity of drill-hole data, can complicate the modeling process and make the use of two-point geostatistical algorithms impractical. Instead, multiple-point geostatistics techniques can be a suitable alternative. How…
Permeability is a key rock property important for scientific applications that require simulation of fluid flow. Although permeability is determined using core flooding experiments, recent advancements in micro-CT imaging and pore scale fluid flow simulations have made it possible to constrain permeability honoring pore scale rock structure. Previous studies have reported that complex associati…
This paper documents the development of PixelSWAT, a Graphical User interface (GUI) python toolbox developed with the motive of creating gridded watershed and stream features to run the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) in a distributed discretization scheme thus allowing optimum utilization of gridded weather datasets. Additionally, the tool also aims to automate the preparation of SWAT we…
El Fierro intrusive body is one of the bodies that compose the La Jovita–Las Aguilas mafic–ultramafic belt, located in the Sierra Grande de San Luis, Argentina. The units of this belt carry a base metal sulfide (BMS) mineralization and platinum group minerals (PGM). The macroscopic description of mafic and ultramafic rocks, as is usually done by the mining exploration companies, leads to an…
In the broad field of sensors and 3D information retrieval, bathymetric reconstruction from side-scan sonar imaging is associated with unique technical hurdles. Neural Networks have recently led to promising new solutions in this field, but the available methods tend to be complex and data-intensive in a way typically making their use in a riverine environment impossible. Throughout our work, w…
Flooding presents a formidable challenge in the United States, endangering lives and causing substantial economic damage, averaging around $5 billion annually. Addressing this issue and improving community resilience is imperative. This project employed machine learning techniques and publicly available data to explore the factors influencing flooding and to develop flood susceptibility maps at…
Micro-CT, also known as X-ray micro-computed tomography, has emerged as the primary instrument for pore-scale properties study in geological materials. Several studies have used deep learning to achieve super-resolution reconstruction in order to balance the trade-off between resolution of CT images and field of view. Nevertheless, most existing methods only work with single-scale CT scans, ign…
This paper provides a new open-source software, named BioReactPy, for simulation of microbial-mediated coupled processes of flow and reactive transport in porous media. The software is based on the micro-continuum approach, and geochemistry is handled in a fully coupled manner with biomass-nutrient growth treated with Monod equation in a single integrated framework, without dependencies on thir…
This paper presents an enhanced 3D heat map for exploratory data analysis (EDA) of open mineral data, addressing the challenges caused by rapidly evolving datasets and ensuring scientifically meaningful data exploration. The Mindat website, a crowd-sourced database of mineral species, provides a constantly updated open data source via its newly established application programming interface (API…
The challenges faced by science, engineering, and society are increasingly complex, requiring broad, cross-disciplinary teams to contribute to collective knowledge, cooperation, and sensemaking efforts. However, existing approaches to collaboration and knowledge sharing are largely manual, inadequate to meet the needs of teams that are not closely connected through personal ties or which lack t…