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Publications and talks

Journal Articles:

1. • Saneiyan, S., Gimenez, D., Siegenthaler, E., & Slater, L. (2024). On the accuracy of saturation estimation from electrical measurements of soils with high swelling clay content. Vadose Zone Journal, e20340. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20340 - PDF

   • McKnight, J. G., & Saneiyan, S. (2024). 3D electrical resistivity survey for reduction of groundwater drilling uncertainties in a clay rich environment. The Leading Edge, 43(2), 117–124. https://doi.org/10.1190/tle43020117.1 - PDF

   • Saneiyan, S., & Mansourian, D. (2023). Locating undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells with smartphones. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 105224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2023.105224 - PDF

   • Saneiyan, S., Mwakanyamale Gilkie, K., Ntarlagiannis, D., Phillips, A., & Barklage, M. (2023). Unconsolidated sediment thickness mapping by waterborne geophysics along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 102238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2023.09.009 - PDF

   • Peshtani, K., Weller, A., Saneiyan, S., & Slater, L. (2022). The influence of magnetic minerals on induced polarization measurements in sedimentary rocks. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL100192. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100192

   • Saneiyan, S., & Slater, L. (2021). Complex conductivity signatures of compressive deformation and shear failure in soils. Engineering Geology, 291(May), 106219. doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106219 - PDF

   • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlagiannis, D., & Colwell, F. (2021). Complex conductivity signatures of microbial induced calcite precipitation, field and laboratory scales. Geophysical Journal International, 224(3), 1811-1824. doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa510 - PDF

   • Ohan, J., Saneiyan, S., Lee, J., Bartlow, A., Ntarlagiannis, D., Burns, S. E., & Colwell, F. (2020). Microbial and Geochemical Dynamics of an Aquifer Stimulated for Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP). Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 1327. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01327 - PDF

   • Blanchy, G., Saneiyan, S., Boyd, J., McLachlan, P., & Binley, A. (2020). ResIPy, an intuitive open source software for complex geoelectrical inversion/modeling. Computers & Geosciences, 137, 104423. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104423 - PDF

   • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlagiannis, D., Ohan,  J., Lee, J., Colwell, F. S., & Burns, S. (2019). Induced polarization as a monitoring tool for in-situ microbial induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) processes. Ecological Engineering, 127, 36-47. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.11.010 - PDF

   • Boyd, J., Blanchy, G., Saneiyan, S., McLachlan, P., & Binley, A. (2019). 3D Geoelectrical Problems with ResIPy, an Open Source Graphical User Interface for Geoelectrical Data Processing. FastTIMES, 24(4), 85-92. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.35381.63205 - PDF

   • Kessouri, P. , Furman, A. , Huisman, J. A., Martin, T. , Mellage, A. , Ntarlagiannis, D. , Bücker, M. , Ehosioke, S. , Fernandez, P. , Flores‐Orozco, A. , Kemna, A. , Nguyen, F. , Pilawski, T. , Saneiyan, S. , Schmutz, M. , Schwartz, N. , Weigand, M. , Wu, Y. , Zhang, C., & Placencia‐Gomez, E. (2019), Induced polarization applied to biogeophysics: recent advances and future prospects. Near Surface Geophysics, 17: 595-621. doi:10.1002/nsg.12072 - PDF

   • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlagiannis, D., Werkema, D. D., & Ustra, A. (2018). Geophysical methods for monitoring soil stabilization processes. J. Appl. Geophys., 148, 234 - 244. doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2017.12.008 - PDF

In preparation/review:

• • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlagiannis, D., Filippone, N., and Colwell, F.S. (2021). Complex conductivity monitoring of microbial movement in saturated media. Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, In review. 

  • Gates, A., Saneiyan, S., Kalczynski, M. (2021). Environmental Game to interest urban youth in the geosciences. Journal of Geoscience Education. In prep.

Non-peer-reviewed/interview/news:

• • Saneiyan, S., & Weiss, C. J. (2023). Introduction to this special section: Orphaned and abandoned wells, The Leading Edge, 42, 796–797

  • "Geophysicists Create Economic Method to Locate Abandoned Wells", Sina Saneiyan interviewed by Ken Milam (Explorer Correspondent), AAPG Explorer Magazine, July 2023. - Read Here  

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Dissertations:

Ph.D. dissertation title:

• • “Geophysical methods for monitoring soil stabilization by microbial induced carbonate precipitation”, Advisor: Associate Res. Prof. Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis

M.Sc. thesis title:

• • “A core flooding lab experimental study to investigate the effect of natural fracture orientation on enhanced recovery by injecting brine in carbonate reservoirs”, 2014, Advisors: Associate Prof. B. Tokhmechi (Shahrood University of Technology), Professor V. Rasouli (Curtin University)  

B.Sc. thesis title:

• • “Petrophysical and Lithological evaluation in two wells of Mansouri oil field”, 2011, Advisor: Professor Gh.H Nowrouzi 

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Invited talks:

• Electrical response of soils under stress and pressure. H014 - Advances in Petrophysics for Hydrogeophysics and Critical Zone Science at AGU Fall Meeting, December 2023.

• Airborne smartphone magnetometry for locating undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells. October chapter meeting, Wichita Chapter of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES), October 2023.

• Every Day Geophysical Tools for Locating Legacy Wells. Workshop 5: Drone Geophysics Applied to Legacy Oil and Gas Wells and Pipelines, IMAGE, September 2023.

• Cost effective drone surveys to locate undocumented orphan wells. All-employees meeting at the Bureau of Land Management Oklahoma Field Office, August 2023.

• Introduction to ResIPy II: software demo and 3D electrical inversion, Open-source software webinar series, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, online, June 2023. (watch here)

• Finding orphan wells, a complicated problem with and easy solution. Colloquium at the School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, April 2023.

• Geophysical Methods for Monitoring Soil Stabilization by Microbial Induced Carbonate Precipitation. Workshop 1 – Biogeophysics, SAGEEP, March 2023.

• Introduction to ResIPy I: software demo and 2D electrical inversion, Open-source software webinar series, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, online, February 2023. (watch here)

• Accuracy of Archie’s law for clayey soils with high swelling capacity, IMAGE 2022, Houston, TX, USA.

• Soil Stabilization process using bioagent and its monitoring using geophysical method, International Virtual Course (IVC) Geophysics for Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia. September 6-17, 2021.

• ResIPy: an open-source software for inversion and modeling of geoelectrical measurements, Department of Geophysics, the University of São Paulo, Brazil, November 2020. (watch here)

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Selected conference papers and presentations:

• • Mansourian, D., Saneiyan, S., (2023). Locating undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells using geophysical techniques and smartphone magnetometry, In IMAGE 2023, September 2023. SEG

  • Oncul, N., Saneiyan, S., Slater, L. D., (2022). Non-Equilibrium Effect of Spectral Induced Polarization in Electrically Conductive Minerals: Pyrite versus Pyrrhotite models, In AGU Fall Meeting 2022. AGU

  • Peshtani, K., Weller, A., Saneiyan, S., & Slater, L. (2022). The influence of magnetic minerals on induced polarization measurements in sedimentary rocks. In AGU Fall Meeting 2022. AGU

  • Perez, V. R., Jackson, L. E., Dee, K. T., Saneiyan, S., (2022). Evaluation of Saltwater Intrusion using Electrical Resistivity and Geochemical Measurements in Brazoria County, Texas, In AGU Fall Meeting 2022. AGU

  • McKnight, J., Saneiyan, S., (2022). Clay Volume Estimation Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography Utilizing ResIPy, In AGU Fall Meeting 2022. AGU

  • Saneiyan, S., Siegenthaler, E., Gimenez, D., & Slater, L., (2022). Accuracy of Archie’s law for clayey soils with high swelling capacity, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts : 3133-3137. https://doi.org/10.1190/image2022-3748322.1

  • Ntalagiannis, D., Mwakanyamale, K., Saneiyan, S., Phillips, A. C., & Barklage, M. (2022). PROCESSING AND INTERPRETATION OF WATERBORNE ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY IMAGING (ERI). In 34th Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, SAGEEP 2022 (pp. 79)

  • Slater, L. D., Saneiyan, S., Garcia, A., & Peshtani, K., (2021, December). Engineering applications of induced polarization. SEG Global Meeting Abstracts: 52-55. 

  • Saneiyan, S., & Slater, L. (2021, September). Complex conductivity porosimetry during unconfined soil compression. In First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (pp. 1971-1975). Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

  • Blanchy, G., Saneiyan, S., Boyd, J., McLachlan, P., Binley, A., & Blanchy, G. (2021, April). ResIPy: an Intuitive Open Source Software for Complex Geoelectrical Inversion/Modeling. In Engineering and Mining Geophysics 2021 (Vol. 2021, No. 1, pp. 1-2). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.

  • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlagiannis, D., Filippone, N., and Colwell, F.S. (2021). Geophysical monitoring of microbial movement. In Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems Proceedings : 97-97.

  • Saneiyan, S., & Slater, L. D. (2020, December). Complex conductivity monitoring of uniaxial shear failure in soils. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.

  • Siegenthaler, E., Saneiyan, S., & Slater, L. D. (2020, December). Petrophysical Characterization of Swelling and Non-Swelling Clays by Geoelectrical Measurements. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.

  • Lee, J., Burns, S., Colwell, F., Ntarlagiannis, D., Ohan, J., & Saneiyan, S. (2020, February). Dissolution and Recrystallization of Iron Oxide during MICP. In Geo-Congress 2020: Biogeotechnics (pp. 179-187). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

  • Blanchy, G., Boyd, J., Saneiyan, S., Binley, A., (2019), pyR2, an easy to use graphical user interface and python API for hydrogeophysical DC/IP applications. Geophysical Research Abstracts. 21:1

  • Saneiyan, S., Blanchy, G., Boyd, J., McLachlan, P., Binley, A., 2019, “pyR2: an open-source standalone graphical user interface for inversion of electrical resistivity and induced polarization measurements”, SAGEEP, March 17-21, Portland, OR, USA

  • Ntalagiannis, D., Mwakanyamale, K. E., & Saneiyan, S., 2019, "Waterborne electrical resistivity imaging (Eri) for assessing lake sediment thickness", SAGEEP, March 17-21, Portland, OR, USA

  • Saneiyan, S., Ohan, J., Lee, J., Ntarlagiannis, D., Colwell, F., Burns, S., 2019, “Spectral Induced Polarization as a Monitoring Tool for Bio-Mediated Soil Stabilization Processes”, SAGEEP, March 17-21, Portland, OR, USA

  • Saneiyan, S., Blanchy, G., Boyd, J., Binley, A., 2018, “pyR2: an open-source standalone graphical user interface for inversion of electrical resistivity and induced polarization measurements”, American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, Dec 10-14, Washington, D.C., USA

  • Saneiyan, S., Ohan, J., Lee, J., Colwell, F., Burns, S., Ntarlagiannis, D., 2018, “Geophysical monitoring of microbial induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) at the Integrated Field Research Challenge (IFRC) site, at Rifle, CO”, SAGEEP, March 25-29, Nashville, TN, USA

  • Saneiyan, S., Robinson, J., Slater, L., Brantley, S., Mount, G., Forsythe, B., 2018, “Understanding flow transport in the Critical Zone using 3D electrical resistivity imaging”, SAGEEP, March 25-29, Nashville, TN, USA

  • Ntarlagiannis, D., Kalderis, D., Soupios, P., Kirmizakis, P., Gerodimou, K., Saneiyan, S., ... & Vafidis, A. (2017, October). Biochar as a remediation agent-the role of geophysical methods for characterization and monitoring. In International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 9-12 October 2017 (pp. 320-323). Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

  • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlaggianis, D., Werkema, 2017, "Induced polarization for characterizing and monitoring soil stabilization processes", American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, Dec 11-15, New Orleans, USA.

  • Ohan, J., Saneiyan, S., Lee, J., Ntarlagiannis, D., Burns, S., & Colwell, F. S., 2017. Microbial Community Structure of an Alluvial Aquifer Treated to Encourage Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation. AGUFM, H13E-1427.

  • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlaggianis, D., Werkema, D., Colwell, F.S., Ohan, J., 2016 "Long Term Monitoring of Microbial Induced Soil Strengthening Processes", American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, Dec 12-16, San Francisco, USA.

  • Saneiyan, S., Ntarlaggianis, D., Werkema, D., 2015, “Geophysical Monitoring of Soil Stabilization Processes”, American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, Dec 14-18, San Francisco, USA.

  • Saneiyan, S., Rasulimanesh, R., Tokhmechi, B., Rasouli, V., Alooki Bakhtiari, H., 2014 "Define an equation to determine the relationship among pressure drop, temperature and injection rate of brine in carbonate cores of an oil field in west of Iran", 5th Iranian Mining Conference, Sep 22-24, Tehran, Iran.