2024 Geothermal Field Trip in Georgia
With the financial support of the DAAD-SDG project of the German Academic Exchange Fund, field training in geothermy was held from June 12 to July 6, 2024. The training, conducted over a total of 6 days in three stages, was supervised by Professor George Melikadze of the Technical University of Georgia, President Georgian Geothermal Association and assisted by Nino Kapanadze, a scientist-researcher at the M. Nodia Institute of Geophysics, PhD student.
The training included a lecture course in geothermal energy and visits to the geothermal wells of Western Georgia, Samtskhe-Javakheti, and Tbilisi. Participants conducted on-site measurements and took samples for chemical and isotopic analysis. Seven students from the Technical University of Georgia participated: Master's student Elene Chikviladze and six bachelor's students: Luka Asanidze, Nini Kuprashvili, Eka Khetsuriani, Lasha Menabdishvili, Mate Beridze, and Lizi Elizbarashvili. > whole report