History

Applied Seismology Consultants (ASC) was formed in 1997 by former research staff of Professor Paul Young’s Keele University research group, UK. Paul has since become Chair of Earth Sciences at Liverpool University, UK, and is presently Director of the Lassonde Institute for Engineering Geoscience at the University of Toronto. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor and Senior Consultant to ASC.




Paul had started the Engineering Seismology Laboratory at Queen’s University in 1984 and performed innovative research and development of microseismic instrumentation and software used to address the issue of rockbursts in Canada. This resulted in commercial Queen’s Microseismic monitoring Systems (QMS) being produced, and over 10 of these systems being installed in mines across the country. Paul moved his research to the UK in 1993 and started the Applied Seismology Laboratory at Keele and then Liverpool Universities. The mine-monitoring market was developed in Canada by Engineering Seismology Group Canada Inc. (ESG), started by former staff of Paul’s Queen’s University research group.


In the UK, Paul specialized in researching the use of seismic monitoring in petroleum-field applications and in developing higher-frequency techniques for laboratory rock-failure testing and for monitoring critical engineered structures. Since ASC’s creation in 1997 we have continued to develop these techniques into our range of services and products and now work with organisations worldwide. We are involved in multi-national research projects working at the forefront of our science and collaborating closely with our clients and contacts to develop new and innovative techniques and products. Our flagship InSite software is now used by many international organizations for their in-house processing and management of seismic data.