MEERTalk November 2025

MEERTalk: Good Vibrations from the Soil: Seismology for Ecosystem Monitoring with Dr. Tarje Nissen-Meyer

Seismic waves carry an extraordinary amount of information over great distances. Traditionally applied to earthquake science and detecting hydrocarbon in the subsurface, thus contributing a great deal to the climate crisis, many recent advances have recently sought to adapt this science to environmental concerns. In this talk, Dr. Tarje will scan a few of these applications, but focus mostly on his work with the Earth Rover Program, within the broad context of the monumental challenge to feed 8 Billion people without exceeding environmental limits. He will show how geophysical non-invasive sampling can detect crucial soil properties, and may eventually scale up to support farmers in evidence-based decision making - for free.

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Dr. Tarje Nissen-Meyer has been Professor in Environmental Intelligence at Exeter University's Mathematics Department since 2023, after spending 10 years at Oxford University's Earth Sciences Department as Professor of Geophyics. His research is mostly grounded in wave physics, with collaborative contributions to novel numerical methods, scientific machine learning, mapping Earth's interior, Mars and icy moons' interior structure, wildlife monitoring and elephant behavior, and more recently soil health monitoring. Dr. Tarje has been a Turing Fellow, on NASA's science team for the InSight mission, visiting professor at Stanford, and co-founded the non-profit organization Earth Rover Program, a global initiative to improve soil health monitoring with geophysical methods.

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