Publications

• Chen, X., Espinoza, D. N., Luo, J. S., Tisato, N., & Flemings, P. B. (2020). Pore-scale evidence of ion exclusion during methane hydrate growth and evolution of hydrate pore-habit in sandy sediments. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 117, 104340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104340
• Ikeda, K., Goldfarb, E. J., & Tisato, N. (2020). Calculating Effective Elastic Properties of Berea Sandstone Using the Segmentation‐Less Method Without Targets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018680
• Zhao, Q., Glaser, S. D., Tisato, N., & Grasselli, G. (2020). Assessing Energy Budget of Laboratory Fault Slip Using Rotary Shear Experiments and Micro‐Computed Tomography. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084787

2019

• Ramos, M. J., Espinoza, D. N., Goldfarb, E. J., Tisato, N., Laubach, S. E., & Torres-Verdín, C. (2019). Microstructural controls on elastic anisotropy of finely laminated Mancos Shale. Geophysical Journal International, 216(2), 991–1004. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy474
• Faccenda, M., Ferreira, A. M. G., Tisato, N., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Stixrude, L., & Pennacchioni, G. (2019). Extrinsic elastic anisotropy in a compositionally heterogeneous Earth’s mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016482
• Spikes, K. T., Tisato, N., Hess, T. E., & Holt, J. W. (2019). COMPARISON OF GEOPHONE AND SURFACE-DEPLOYED DAS SEISMIC DATA. GEOPHYSICS, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2018-0528.1

2018

• Zhao, Q., Tisato, N., Kovaleva, O., & Grasselli, G. (2018). Direct observation of faulting by means of rotary shear tests under X-ray micro-computed tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015394.
• Chapman, S., Quintal, B., Holliger, K., Baumgartner, L., & Tisato, N. (2018). Laboratory measurements of seismic attenuation and Young’s modulus dispersion in a partially and fully water-saturated porous sample made of sintered borosilicate glass: Geophysical Prospecting. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12643.
• De Waele, J., D’Angeli, I. M., Bontognali, T., Tuccimei, P., Scholz, D., Jochum, K. P., A. Columbu, S. M. Bernasconi, J. J. Fornos, E. R. G. Gonzales & N. Tisato (2018). Speleothems in a north Cuban cave register sea-level changes and Pleistocene uplift rates: North Cuban cave registers sea-level changes and Pleistocene uplift. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4393.

2017

• De Siena, L., G. Chiodini, G. Vilardo, E. Del Pezzo, M. Castellano, S. Colombelli, N. Tisato, and G. Ventura (2017), Source and dynamics of a volcanic caldera unrest: Campi Flegrei, 1983–84, Scientific Reports, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08192-7
• Lupi, M., M. Frehner, P. Weis, A. Skelton, E. H. Saenger, N. Tisato, S. Geiger, G. Chiodini, and T. Driesner (2017), Regional earthquakes followed by delayed ground uplifts at Campi Flegrei Caldera, Italy: Arguments for a causal link, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 436–446, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.006
• Zhao, Q., N. Tisato, and G. Grasselli (2017), Rotary shear experiments under X-ray micro-computed tomography, Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(1), 015110, doi:10.1063/1.4974149.
• De Waele, J., I. M. D’Angeli, N. Tisato, P. Tuccimei, M. Soligo, G. Joaquin, A. Gines, J. J. Fornos, I. M. Villa, G. G. Esteban, S. M. Bernasconi, T. R. R. Bontognali (2017), Coastal uplift rate at Matanzas (Cuba) inferred from MIS5e phreatic overgrowths on speleothems, Terra Nova, https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12253
• Chapman, S., B. Quintal, N. Tisato, and K. Holliger (2017), Frequency scaling of seismic attenuation in rocks saturated with two fluid phases, Geophysical Journal International, 208(1), 221–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw387

2016

• Chapman, S., N. Tisato, B. Quintal, and K. Holliger (2016), Seismic attenuation in partially saturated Berea sandstone submitted to a range of confining pressures: seismic attenuation in Berea sandstone, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(3), 1664–1676, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012575
• Sun, L. F., B. Milkereit, and N. Tisato, Analysis of velocity dispersion using full-waveform multichannel sonic logging data: A case study: Analyzing velocity dispersion, Geophysical Prospecting, 64(4), 1016–1029, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12410
• Biryukov, A., N. Tisato, and G. Grasselli, Attenuation of elastic waves in bentonite and monitoring of radioactive waste repositories, Geophysical Journal International, 205(1), 105–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv548
• Bontognali, T. R. R., I. M. D’Angeli, N. Tisato, C. Vasconcelos, S. M. Bernasconi, E. R. G. Gonzales, and J. De Waele (2016), Mushroom Speleothems: Stromatolites That Formed in the Absence of Phototrophs, Frontiers in Earth Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00049

Theses

• Carolyn Bland (2022), The elastic and transport properties of Hikurangi margin rocks as a function of Stress, saturation, and the presence of fractures
• Ken Ikeda (2021), Frequency-dependent Mechanical Properties of Geomaterials: Laboratory Experiments and Digital Rock Physics [link]
• Eric Goldfarb (2021), Predictive digital rock physics [link]
• Micheal Ryan McCann (2020), Low-frequency attenuation measurements of fluids [link]

Extended Conference Abstracts

• Alamoudi, O.*, & Tisato, N. (2021) Fracture detection and property estimation in microCT images. In First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts (pp. 2348–2352). Denver, CO and virtual: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2021-3584210.1
• Goldfarb, E. J.*, Ikeda, K.*, & Tisato, N. (2021) Evaluating samples smaller than the representative elementary volume (REV). In First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts (pp. 2373–2377). Denver, CO and virtual: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2021-3594787.1
• Ikeda, K.*, Goldfarb, E.*, & Tisato, N. (2020) A new apparatus for measuring low-frequency attenuation: Low-Frequency Module. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020 (pp. 2560–2564). Virtual: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2020-3427119.1
• Zhao, Q.*, Glaser, S. D., Tisato, N., & Grasselli, G. (2019, August 28) Assessing Energy Budget of Laboratory Fault Slip Using Quantitative Micro-CT Image Analysis. Paper presented at the 53rd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New York City, New York, June 2019. [link]
• Goldfarb, E. J.*, Tisato, N., Ikeda, K.*, Kerans, C., Ketcham, R. A., Gomez, K., & Boone, J. M. (2019) Numerically estimating rock frame properties of a mixed calcite and dolomite hand sample using Computed Tomography (CT). In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019 (pp. 3558–3562). San Antonio, Texas: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2019-3215964.1
• Ikeda, K.*, Goldfarb, E. J.*, & Tisato, N. (2019) Elastic properties of Berea sandstone using inversion-assisted segmentation-less digital rock physics. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019 (pp. 3698–3702). San Antonio, Texas: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2019-3215840.1
• McCann, M.*, Tisato, N., & Spikes, K. (2019) Low-frequency attenuation measurements of fluids. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019 (pp. 3598–3602). San Antonio, Texas: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2019-3193361.1
• Tisato, N., Duranti, L., & Madonna, C. (2018) Measurements of seismic-wave attenuation and dynamic pore pressure in Berea sandstone. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018 (pp. 3567–3571). Anaheim, California: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2018-2998063.1
• Goldfarb, E. J.*, Ikeda, K.*, & Tisato, N. (2018) Constraining the effect of image resolution in digital rock physics without segmentation. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018 (pp. 3688–3692). Anaheim, California: Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2018-2997871.1
• Quintal B., S. Chapman, N. Tisato, and Josef Paffenholz (2017) Numerical analysis of laboratory attenuation measurements, Sixth Biot Conference on Poromechanics (pp. 1642-1649). DOI: 10.1061/9780784480779.203
• Goldfarb E.*, Ikeda K.*, Tisato N. (2017) Segmentationless digital rock physics using different effective medium theories. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2017 (Vols. 1–0, pp. 3908–3913). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2017-17792957.1
• Ikeda K.*, Goldfarb E.*, Tisato N. (2017) Static elastic properties of Berea sandstone by means of segmentation-less digital rock physics. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2017 (Vols. 1–0, pp. 3914–3919). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2017-17789805.1
• Tisato N., Spikes K (2016) Computation of effective elastic properties from digital images without segmentation. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016 (Vols. 1–0, pp. 3256–3260). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2016-13947820.1
• Tisato N., Zhao Q.*, Grasselli G. (2016) Experimental Rock Deformation under Micro-CT – Two New Apparatuses for Rock Physics. In 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2016 (pp. 1–5). Online,: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers. DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.201601225
• Tisato N., Zhao Q.*, Grasselli G. (2016) Experimental rock physics under micro-CT. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016 (Vols. 1–0, pp. 3251–3255). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. DOI: 10.1190/segam2016-13949603.1

Conference Abstracts

• Alamoudi, O.*, and Tisato, N., (2023): Permeability and fracture evolution with confining pressure: an experimental study utilizing X-ray computed tomography and pulse-decay permeability measurements. Tomography for Scientific Advancement – North America (ToScANA) – Austin.
• Tisato, N., Bland, C.*, Van Avendonk, H., Bangs, N., & Gase, A.^‡ (2022) Insights into the style of deformation in the Hikurangi subduction zone from rock physics measurements: elastic properties, permeability, and fracture healing. AGU Fall meeting – Chicago.
• Huanyu Wu, Qi Zhao and Nicola Tisato (2022) Postseismic Relaxation Mechanisms of a Granular Fault: Laboratory Experiment and Numerical Simulation. AGU Fall meeting – Chicago.
• Lakrout C. A.*, Jones N. T, Tisato N. (2022) Relating Unique Cave Structures to Micro-Biomes, LPI Contributions 2678, 2591, Houston, TX.
• MDP Di Martino, L De Siena, N Tisato (2022) The role of pore space topology on ultrasonic wave propagation in volcanic rocks, EGU 2022, Vienna, Austria.
• E.M. Conrad*, N. Tisato, BM Carpenter (2021) Experimental Insights into Melt Influenced Fault Behavior, AGU Fall Meeting 2021
• Tisato, N., & Di Toro, G. (2021) Flash Heating and Weakening inferred from Thermal Imaging of High-Speed Rotary Shear Experiments, 2021, MR32A-06. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Bland, C.*, Tisato, N., Van Avendonk, H., Bangs, N., & Gase, A.^‡ (2021) Elastic Properties and Permeability of Hikurangi Margin Rocks as a Function of Stress, Saturation, and the Presence of Fractures, 2021, MR45B-0097. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Conrad, E. M.*, Tisato, N., Di Toro, G., Carpenter, B. M., & Faccenna, C. (2020) New data on the stick-slip mechanics of seismogenic faults from rotary shear experiments, 2020, MR015-0011. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Conrad has won an OSPA)
• Jin, Z.^‡, & Tisato, N. (2020) Measurements of Seismic Wave Attenuation in Bubbly Liquids: Wiged Mechanism, 2020, H015-08. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• C.A. Lakrout, E.J. Goldfarb, T.R.R. Bontognali, and N. Tisato, Biotic influence in speleothems morphology, 3rd International Planetary Caves Conference scheduled for February 18–21, 2020 at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio (TX), https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/3rdcaves2020/
• Nicola Tisato, Christopher Harbord, Elena Spagnuolo, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Giulio Di Toro, A new apparatus to study visco-elastic properties in large displacement experimental faults, AGU fall meeting 2019;
• Eric J Goldfarb, Scott A Eckley, Ken Ikeda, Richard A Ketcham, Omar Alamoudi and Nicola Tisato, A Novel Way to Estimate Wave Speeds of Extraterrestrial Rocks, AGU fall meeting 2019;
• Benjamin Koenigs, Nathan Ross Miller, Nicola Tisato, Darrel M. Tremaine; Development of a Speleothem-Analogue Drip Sensor, AGU fall meeting 2019;
• Q. Zhao, N. Tisato, G. Grasselli, S. D. Glaser, (2019) Assessing energy budget of laboratory fault slip using quantitative micro-CT image analysis, American Rock Mechanics Association 53rd US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, New York (NY)
• Eric Goldfarb, Logan Schmidt, Ken Ikeda, Omar Alamoudi, Daniella Rempe, and Nicola Tisato, (2019) Fractured Bedrock Hydrogeologic Characterization Using Digital Rock Physics, ACE AAPG meeting, San Antonio (TX)
• Ken Ikeda, Eric Goldfarb, Nicola Tisato, (2019) Convolutional Neural Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Micro-Pores in SEM Based Images of Shales, ACE AAPG meeting, San Antonio (TX)
• Ken Ikeda, Shankar Subramaniyan, Beatriz Quintal, Erik Saenger, Eric J Goldfarb and Nicola Tisato, (2018) Numerical and Laboratory Study of Low-frequency Elastic Properties of Limestone, AGU fall meeting, MR23A-01.
• Xiongyu Chen, Nicolas Espinoza, Nicola Tisato and Peter B Flemings, (2018) X-ray micro-CT observation of methane hydrate growth and dissociation in sandy sediments, AGU Fall meeting, H41K-2231
• Eric J Goldfarb, Ken Ikeda, Richard A Ketcham and Nicola Tisato, (2018) Estimating Properties from Millimetric Sized Rock Cuttings Using Micro Computed Tomography (CT), AGU Fall meeting, H41K-2214.
• Manuele Faccenda, Ferreira, Nicola Tisato, Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars P Stixrude, and Giorgio Pennacchioni, (2018) Can compositional mantle heterogeneities be detected with seismic anisotropy? AGU Fall meeting, DI33A-02
• Giulio Di Toro, Christopher Harbord, Elena Spagnuolo and Nicola Tisato, (2018) A new module designed to study seismic attenuation in large displacement experimental faults AGU FAll meeting, T11F-0223
• Q. Zhao, N. Tisato, G. Grasselli, S. D. Glaser, (2017) Rotary shear test under X-ray microcomputedtomography, 52nd ARMA Symposium, Seattle (Wa)”
• De Siena L, Chiodini G, Vilardo G, Del_Pezzo E, Castellano M, Colombelli S, Tisato N, Ventura G (2017). 4D imaging of the seism-geochemical dynamics leading to recent Campi Flegrei unrest. In: EGU General Assembly, 28/4/17, Vienna, Austria.
• Ikeda K, Goldfarb E, Tisato N (2017). Calculating Effective Elastic Properties of Berea Sandstone Using Segmentation-less Method without Targets. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 15/12/17, New Orleans, USA.
• Goldfarb E, Ikeda K, Tisato N (2017). Changes in Ultrasonic Velocity from Fluid Substitution, Calculated with Laboratory Methods, Digital Rock Physics, and Biot Theory. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 16/12/17, New Orleans, USA.
• Lupi M, Frehner M, Weis P, Skelton A, Saenger E, Tisato N, Geiger S, Chiodini G, Driesner T (2017). Delayed inflation triggerd by regional earthquakes at Campi Flegrei Caldera, Italy. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 15/12/17, New Orleans, USA.
• Tisato N, Ikeda K, Goldfarb E (2017). Segmentation-less Digital Rock Physics. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 14/12/17, New Orleans, USA.
• De Siena L, Chiodini G, Vilardo G, Del_Pezzo E, Castellano M, Colombelli S, Tisato N, Ventura G (2017). Seismic imaging of the hot source of Campi Flegrei unrest. In: EGU General Assembly, 26/4/17, VIenna, Austria.
• Tisato N, Cordonnier B, De Siena L, Lavier L, Di_Toro G (2017). Torque controlled rotary-shear experiments reveal pseudotachilites formation-dynamics and precursor events. In: EGU General Assembly, 27/4/17, Vienna, Austria.
• Tisato N, Goodfellow S D, Moulas V, Di Toro G, Young P, Grasselli G (2016). Acoustic emissions in rock deformation experiments under microCT. In: EGU general meeting, 04/15/16, Vienna, Austria.
• Tisato N, Quintal B, Chapman S, Podladchikov Y, Burg J P (2016). Bubbles attenuate elastic waves at seismic frequencies. In: EGU general meeting, 04/15/16, Vienna, Austria.
• Chapman S, Quintal B, Tisato N, Holliger K (2016). The frequency scaling of seismic attenuation measured in a two phase saturated rock. In: SEG AGU Workshop Upper Crust Physics of Rocks, 07/13/16, Hilo, USA.
• Tisato N, Kyle Spikes, Farzam Javadpour (2016). Viscoelasticity of multiphase fluids future directions. In: EGU general meeting, 04/15/16, Vienna, Austria.