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PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL PAPERS

  • Cherkose, B. A., Zhang, Z., Li, Y. (2026). Detecting Serpentinization Related Electrical Anisotropy Using Magnetotelluric Phase Tensors: Application in Geologic Hydrogen Exploration, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxag023

  • Cherkose, B.A., Zhang, M. & Li, Y. (2026). Finding geologic hydrogen generation in UAE ophiolites: insights from MT phase tensor mapping of serpentinization. Discov Appl Sci, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-026-08490-8

  • Cherkose, B. A., Saibi, H., Al Bloushi, K., Ali, M. Y., Fowler, A., & Smirnov, M. (2025). Late Cretaceous ophiolite emplacement and Cenozoic collisional tectonics in the northeastern Arabian Plate: Insights from new broadband magnetotelluric data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB028744. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB028744

  • Saibi, H., Ali, M. Y., Cherkose, B. A., Alaran, A., Ullah, S., & Tsuji, T. (2023). Audio-magnetotelluric survey for groundwater investigation in the Al-Jaww Plain in eastern Abu Dhabi, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. Earth and Space Science, 10, e2023EA003181. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003181.

  • Cherkose, B. A., Issa, S., Saibi, H., & ElHaj, K. (2023). Building a geospatial model to identify potential geothermal sites in Ayrobera: Afar depression, NE Ethiopia. Geothermics, 110(February), 102689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102689.

  • ElHaj, K., Issa, S., Alshamsi, D., Cherkose, B.A. (2023). Modeling and Prediction of Groundwater Level Fluctuations Using Geoinformatics and Artificial Neural Networks in Al Ain City, UAE. In: Sherif, M., Singh, V.P., Sefelnasr, A., Abrar, M. (eds), Water Resources Management and Sustainability. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 121. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24506-0_13

  • Cherkose, B.A., Saibi,H., Khalid Al Bloushi, Mohammed Y. Ali, Maxim Smirnov (2022). Deep electrical structure of the northern UAE: An investigation along the Dibba zone and the foreland basin using magnetotellurics, Tectonophysics, Volume 845, 229641, SSN 0040-1951, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229641.

  • Cherkose, B. A. and Saibi, H. (2021). Investigating the Ayrobera geothermal field using 3D magnetotelluric data inversion, Afar depression, NE Ethiopia, Geothermics, Volume 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2021.102114.

  • Saibi, H., Khosravi, S., B.A. Cherkose, M. Smirnov, Y. Kebede, A. Fowler (2021) Magnetotelluric data analysis using 2D inversion: a case study from Al-Mubazzarah geothermal area (AMGA), Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. Heliyon, 7(6), e07440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07440

  • Uwiduhaye, J. D., Sakindi, G., Saibi, H., & Cherkose, B. A. (2021). Subsurface geoelectrical structure from 3-d inversion of magnetotelluric data of Gisenyi geothermal field, western part of Rwanda. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2021.104277.

  • Cherkose, B.A and H. Mizunaga. (2018). Resistivity imaging of Aluto- Langano geothermal field using 3-D magnetotelluric inversion, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 139, 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.12.017

PUBLICATIONS: CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • Cherkose, B. A, Zhang, M., Li., Y. A (2025). Geologic hydrogen investigation using magnetotelluric phase tensors: Case study from the UAE Ophiolite blocks, IMAGE Conference 25-28 August 2025, George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas, USA.

  • Zhang, M., Cherkose, B. A., Li., Y. (2025). Predicting potential geologic hydrogen reservoir locations using MT and seismic data, IMAGE Conference 25-28 August 2025, George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas, USA.

  • Cherkose, B. A, Saibi, H., Khalid Al Bloushi, Mohammed Y. Ali. (2023). Broadband Magnetotelluric Investigation of Late Cretaceous Ophiolite Emplacement and Cenozoic Collisional Tectonics in Northern UAE, AGU conference, 11 – 15 December 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  • Cherkose, B. A., Saibi, H., Fujii, H., Fekadu, A., (2023). Magnetotelluric Imaging of the Tendaho Geothermal Field in the Afar Depression, Northeastern Ethiopia, the 7th International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, ICEG, 16 - 19 Oct 2023, AL AIN, UAE.

  • H. Saibi, Cherkose, B.A, Ismail Fidha, Alhashmi Khulud, Safiuddin Rayaan, Alzeyoudi Amnah, Almaramah Leena, Saoud Al Senani, Alkaabi Mai, Shion Nohara, Haruka Yoshimoto., (2023). Groundwater study using Audio-Magnetotelluric Data at Falaj Mazyad in the eastern Abu Dhabi Emirate, Al-Ain region, UAE. the 7th International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, ICEG, 16 - 19 Oct 2023, AL AIN, UAE.

  • Cherkose, B.A. and Saibi, H., (2021) A Python Package for Magnetotelluric Data Visualization, Analysis, Modeling and Inversion. Sixth International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, ICEG, 25 - 28 Oct 2021 | Virtual Conference, AL AIN, UAE. https://doi.org/10.1190/iceg2021-059.1

  • Samrock, F., Grayver, A. V., Cherkose, B.A, Kuvshinov, A., & Saar, M. O. (2020). Aluto-Langano Geothermal Field, Ethiopia: Complete Image of Underlying Magmatic- Hydrothermal System Revealed by Revised Interpretation of Magnetotelluric Data Aluto-Langano Geothermal Field, Ethiopia: Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2020 Reykjavik, Iceland, 2020 (April), 1–8.

  • Cherkose, B.A and Hakim Saibi (2020), Three-dimensional Magnetotelluric imaging of Ayrobera geothermal field, Afar Depression, NE Ethiopia, Conference: UAEU Annual Research and Innovation Conference, 4-5 February 2020, UAE

  • Cherkose, B.A, H. Mizunaga and F. Samrock. (2018). Imaging Resistivity Structures of High-Enthalpy Geothermal Systems Using Magnetotelluric Method: A case study of Aluto-Langano geothermal field in Ethiopia., Proceedings, 7th African Rift Geothermal Conference Kigali, Rwanda 31st October – 2nd November 2018.

  • F. Samrock, A.V. Grayver, H. Eysteinsson, Cherkose, B.A, A. Kuvshinov, M. O. Saar. (2018). Magnetotelluric images of transcrustal magmatic systems beneath Aluto and Tulu Moye., RiftVolc.

  • Cherkose, B.A and H. Mizunaga. (2017). 3-D magnetotelluric data inversion to map geothermal structures in Aluto-Langano geothermal field, Ethiopia, Proceedings, International Symposium on Earth Science and Technology (CINEST) 2017, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

  • Cherkose, B.A and H. Mizunaga. (2016). Magnetotelluric Investigation in Aluto-Langano geothermal field, Ethiopia, Proceedings, International Symposium on Earth Science and Technology (CINEST) 2016, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

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