Emily Woolsey
I am a graduate student research assistant focused on the geothermal potential at the southern Albuquerque Basin constriction where anomalously high levels of heat, salinity, seismicity and primordial helium have been observed and thought to be related to the Socorro Magma Body. Several competing hypotheses have been proposed to explain the anomalies measured at the surface, such as the role of basin constriction versus fault-controlled fluid flow, so I helped develop a mathematical model to test these competing hypotheses since data acquisition is a major challenge in this case. The use of multiple tracers to model subsurface flow systems within sedimentary basins is of great practical relevance for assessing the vast geothermal resource potential of New Mexico.