Publications

Cruise Reports

2025006PGC - Geological Survey of Canada Cruise Report: PACSAFE Leg 3 and Endeavour Ridge ocean-bottom seismometer deployments from the CCGS John P. Tully. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21824288
NFSI-010-2024-04 - Baffin Island Broadband Offshore Seismology (BIBOS) OBS Deployment Cruise
NFSI-005-2023-02 - PACSAFE Leg 1 OBS Deployment Cruise
NFSI-004-2023-01 - Earthquake Monitoring & Whale Tracking in the Lower St. Lawrence Seaway - OBS Deployment Cruise

Datasets

Nedimović, M., Plourde, A., Cairns, G., Thibodeau, J., Tremblay, A., Cordero Oviedo, C., & Bevilacqua, A. (2025). Labrador-Iqaluit Broadband Offshore Seismology (LIBOS) [Data set]. International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks. doi: 10.7914/dbf6-f704
Nedimović, M., Plourde, A., Cairns, G., Thibodeau, J., Bosman, K., Tremblay, A., & Cordero Oviedo, C. (2024). Baffin Island Broadband Offshore Seismology (BIBOS) [Data set]. National Facility for Seismological Investigations. doi: 10.7914/gt1a-7n44
Zhang, M., Nedimović, M., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., & Thibodeau, J. (2024). Seismic Investigation of the Scotian Margin (SeISM) [Data set]. National Facility for Seismological Investigations. doi: 10.7914/my7h-0e73
Savage, M., Warren-Smith, E., Audet, P., Jacobs, K.M., Nedimović, M., Wallace, L., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., & Palmer, N. (2023). Earthquakes and Locking inVEstigation of Subduction (ELVES) [Data set]. International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks. doi: 10.7914/ec6t-sm20
Bostock, M., Nedimović, M., Schaeffer, A., Hobbs, T., Sun, T., Plourde, A., Lintern, G., Zhang, M., Peacock, S., Wang, K., Kao, H., Nissen, E., & Rohr, K. (2023). Pacific Coast Seismic Assessment for Faults and Earthquakes (PACSAFE) [Data set]. National Facility for Seismological Investigations. doi: 10.7914/nr48-3x83
Liu, Y., Plourde, A., Nedimović, M., Zhang, M., Darbyshire, F., Cauchy, P., Pellerin, A., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., & Thibodeau, J. (2023). Lower St Lawrence Ocean Bottom Experiment (LOBEX) [Data set]. National Facility for Seismological Investigations. doi: 10.7914/x5w5-z042
Nedimović, M., Plourde, A., Zhang, M., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Eville, V., Wilson, T., & Smith, L. (2021). OBS Test Deployment on the Laurentian Fan [Data set]. International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks. doi: 10.7914/dxq4-ye42

Articles

Sirati, E., Plourde, A.P., Nedimović, M.R., Zhang, M., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Niksejel, A., Audet, P., Bostock, M.G., Calvert, A.J., Darbyshire, F.A., Dosso, S.E., Frederiksen, A.W., Liu, Q., Liu, Y., Schaeffer, A.J., & Welford, J.K., 2026, Ocean-Bottom Seismometer Deployment on the Laurentian Fan Seismic Zone: The First Long-Term Test for the Canadian National Facility for Seismological Investigations, Seismological Research Letters, doi: 10.1785/0220260156
Liu, Y., Plourde, A., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Sirati, E., Chien, J., Darbyshire, F.A., Nedimović, M., Zhang, M., Zhang, W., Xu, J., Gurun, P., & Nedimović, F., 2026, Lower St. Lawrence Seaway Amphibious Seismic Network for earthquakes and marine soundscape monitoring, Seismica, Vol. 5.1, doi: 10.26443/seismica.v5i1.2044.
Corbalán, A. & Nedimović, M.R., 2026, Evolution of Tectonically Accreted Topmost Oceanic Lithospheric Mantle Based on Seismic Tomography Constraints at the Ultraslow‐Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 27, No. 8, doi: 10.1029/2026GC013002.
Corbalán, A., Nedimović, M.R., Louden, K.E., Cannat, M., Grevemeyer, I., Watremez, L., & Leroy, S., 2021, Seismic Velocity Structure Along and Across the Ultraslow-Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge at 64°30′E Showcases Flipping Detachment Faults, JGR Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022177, doi: 10.1029/2021JB022177.
Nedimović, M., 2019, Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrumentation in Canada, CSEG Recorder, Vol. 44, No. 2, 12-17.
Lau, K.W.H., Nedimović, M.R., & Louden, K.E., 2018, Continent-Ocean Transition Across the Northeastern Nova Scotia Margin From a Dense Wide-Angle Seismic Profile, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, Vol. 123, 4331-4359, doi: 10.1029/2017JB015282.
Watremez, L., Lau, H., Nedimović, M., & Louden, K., 2015, Traveltime tomography of a dense wide-angle profile across Orphan Basin, Geophysics, Vol. 80, No. 3, B69-B82, doi: 10.1190/GEO2014-0377.1.
Lau, H., Watremez, L., Louden, K., & Nedimović, M., 2015, Structure of thinned continental crust across the Orphan Basin from a dense wide-angle seismic profile and gravity data, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 202, 1969-1992, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv261.
Wu, Y., Louden, K.E., Funck, T., Jackson, H.R., & Dehler, S.A., 2006, Crustal structure of the central Nova Scotia margin off Eastern Canada, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 166, 878-906, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02991.x.
Funck, T., Jackson, H.R., Louden, K.E., Dehler, S.A., & Wu, Y., 2004, Crustal structure of the northern Nova Scotia rifted continental margin (eastern Canada), J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. B9, 19 pages, doi: 10.1029/2004JB003008.

Conference Presentations & Workshops

Audet, P., Warren-Smith, E., Jacobs, K., Savage, M., Nedimović, M., Wallace, L., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Clouston, S., Zhang, Q., Hobbis, D., & Murray, D. (2026). The Canadian broadband OBS pool and the ELVES project. SZNet International Webinar Series (virtual), invited presentation.
Cairns, G., Nedimović, M., Plourde, A.P., Thibodeau, J., Bosman, K., May, B., Blouin, S., Pecknold, S., and Gehrmann, R. (2026, May 24-27). Investigations of Canada’s Eastern Arctic with Ocean-Bottom Seismometers (ICE-OBS) [Poster]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Roussey, M., Audet, P., Savage, M., Mueller, C., Warren-Smith, E. (2026, May 24-27). The seismic soundscape offshore northern New Zealand [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Audet, P., Savage, M., Murray, D., Warren-Smith, E., Jacobs, K., Palmer, N., Nedimović, M., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., The ELVES crew. (2026, May 24-27). The Earthquakes and Locking inVEstigation of Subduction (ELVES) project: Resolving the structure and dynamics of the Hikurangi margin with OBS data [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Barkat, A., Zhang, M., Nedimović, M., Niksejel, A., Wach, G., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J. (2026, May 24-27). Evaluating Seismic Hazards for Carbon Storage on the Scotian Shelf Offshore Nova Scotia [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Barkat, A., Zhang, M., Nedimović, M., Plourde, A.P., Schaeffer, A.J., Hobbs, T.E., Sun, T., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Bostock, M.G., Nissen, E., Peacock, S., Kao, H., Wang, K., Rohr, K., Lintern, G. (2026, May 24-27). PACSAFE LEG2: Investigating seismicity of the Queen Charlotte Fault Offshore Haida Gwaii Using a Year-Long OBS Deployment [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Schaeffer, A.J., Bostock, M., Hobbs, T.E., Plourde, A.P., Dave, R., Sun, T., Gosselin, J.M., Nedimović, M., Wang, K., Zhang, M., Cassidy, J., Paul, C., Rohr, K., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Stacey, C., Carson, T., Lintern, G., Kao, H., Nissen, E., Peacock, S. (2026, May 24-27). High-resolution seismicity and fault imaging of the Queen Charlotte Triple Junction region from the PACSAFE Leg1 ocean-bottom seismometer network [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Liu, Y., Plourde, A.P., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Sirati, E., Chien, J., Darbyshire, F.A., Nedimović, M., Zhang, M., Zhang, W., Xu, J., Gurun, P., Nedimović, F. (2026, May 24-27). Characterizing marine soundscape in the Lower St. Lawrence Seaway using broadband ocean bottom seismometers [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Sirati, E., Plourde, A.P., Liu, Y., Chien, J., Darbyshire, F., Nedimović, M.R., and Zhang, M. (2026, May 24-27). The Lower St. Lawrence Seismic Zone Ocean Bottom Seismometer Deployment [Conference presentation]. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
Schaeffer, A., Bostock, M., and the PACSAFE Team. (2026, May 3-8). High-resolution seismicity and fault imaging of the Queen Charlotte Triple Junction region from the PACSAFE Leg1 ocean-bottom seismometer network [Poster]. EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, EGU26-15321.
Sirati, E., Plourde, A., Liu, Y., Chien, J., Darbyshire, F., Nedimović, M., and Zhang, M. (2026, May 3-8). The Lower St. Lawrence Seismic Zone Ocean Bottom Seismometer Deployment [Conference presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, EGU26-15093.
Goblot, E., Gehrmann, R., Barclay, D., Indeck, K., Plourde, A., Sirati, E., and Nedimović, M. (2026, May 3-8). Seismoacoustic Localization and Source Level Estimation of Blue Whale Calls in the Gulf of St. Lawrence [Conference presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, EGU26-11529.
Barkat, A., Zhang, M., Nedimović, M., Niksejel, A., Wach, G., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., and Thibodeau, J. (2026, April 14-18). Evaluating Seismic Hazards for Carbon Storage on the Scotian Shelf Offshore Nova Scotia [Poster]. SSA Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA, United States.
Barkat, A., Zhang, M., Nedimović, M., Plourde, A., Schaeffer, A.J., Hobbs, T.E., Sun, T., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Bostock, M.G., Nissen, E., Peacock, S., Kao, H., Wang, K., Rohr, K., and Lintern, G. (2026, April 14-18). PACSAFE LEG2: Investigating Seismicity in the Northern Segment of the Queen Charlotte Triple Junction Using a Year-long OBS Deployment [Poster]. SSA Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA, United States.
Hobbs, T.E., Schaeffer, A., Sun, T., Bostock, M., Nedimović, M., Stacey, C., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Eville, V., Plourde, A., Dave, R., Finley, T., Oliva, S.J., Parkinson, F., Podhorodeski, A., Hughes, A., Yakuden, L., Carson, T., Kung, R., Lintern, G., Wang, K., Rohr, K., Kao, H., Nissen, E., Peacock, S., Zhang, M., Cassidy, J., Paul, C., and Brillon, C. (2025, April 14-18). PACSAFE: Preliminary Results from Deployment of Ocean Bottom Seismometers Off Canada's West Coast [Conference presentation]. SSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Sirati, E., Plourde, A.P., Nedimović, M.R., Zhang, M., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Audet, P., Bostock, M.G., Calvert, A.J., Darbyshire, F.A., Dosso, S.E., Frederiksen, A.W., Liu, Q., Liu, Y., Schaeffer, A., Welford, J.K. (2025, February 7-8). Offshore seismicity and baleen whale activity: a case study on the Lower Laurentian Fan Seismic Zone [Poster]. Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium, Dartmouth, NS, S41H3405.
Schaeffer, A.J., Hobbs, T.E., Sun, T., Bostock, M.G., Nedimović, M.R., Stacey, C., Finley, T., Oliva, S.J.C., Dave, R., Parkinson, F., Podhorodeski, A., Yakuden, L., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Eville, V., Carson, T., Hughes, A., Kung, R., Lintern, G., Wang, K., Rohr, K., Kao, H., Nissen, E., Peacock, S., Zhang, M., Cassidy, J., Plourde, A.P., Paul, C., & Brillon, C. (2024, December 9-13). PACSAFE: Preliminary results from the Leg 1 deployment of Ocean Bottom Seismometers off Canada's west coast [Poster]. AGU24 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States.
Sirati, E., Plourde, A.P., Nedimović, M.R., Zhang, M., Cairns, G., Bosman, K., Thibodeau, J., Audet, P., Bostock, M.G., Calvert, A.J., Darbyshire, F.A., Dosso, S.E., Frederiksen, A.W., Liu, Q., Liu, Y., Schaeffer, A.J., & Welford, J.K. (2024, December 9-13). The First Broadband Ocean-Bottom Seismometer Deployment in Eastern Canada: A Case Study on the Lower Laurentian Fan Seismic Zone [Poster]. AGU24 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States.