Workshop Summary
"GEM Beijing 2011 was hosted by SEG and CGS.[...] The workshop attracted 250 delegates, including 70 from outside China, who represented 17 countries: Australia, Canada,China, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, Peru, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. The delegates are employed by instrument manufacturers, universities, national geological surveys, oil and gas companies, mining companies, and service contractors. The workshop provided an excellent forum for geophysicists from China and overseas to interact and network.
"The number of abstracts submitted greatly exceeded
the initial expectation; 24 poster and 73 oral presentations were accepted.
Two-thirds of the speakers in the oral sessions came from outside China.
As a result, there were two concurrent sessions for both oral and poster
presentations. We are particularly
thankful to the members of the Technical Program Committee and other experts
who reviewed and edited abstracts. Their unselfish and meticulous effort
significantly improved many presentations."
-excerpt taken from The Leading Edge, January 2012 (pdf)
Workshop Photos
Date and Venue
October 10 - 13, 2011
International Conference Center at China University of Geosciences in
Beijing, China
Co-Organizers |
The
Society of Exploration Geophysicists The Chinese Geophysical Society |
Suported
by |
China
University of Geosciences |
General
Co-Chairs |
Xiong
Li: Fugro Yaoguo Li: Colorado School of Mines |
Chair
of the Local Organizing Committee |
Xiaohong
Meng: China University of Geosciences |
Technical
Committee |
| - Michel Chouteau:
École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| Local Organizing Committee |
| -Xiaohong Meng (Chair), China University of
Geosciences (Beijing) |
Goals
Significant advances in gravity, electrical, magnetic and
remote sensing methods and technologies have been made recently while
new types of geological targets, problems, and application settings bring
new difficulties and challenges. Various industry and academic groups
have applied these different geophysical techniques with noticeable successes
in a wide range of areas including the exploration and development of
oil & gas and minerals and investigation of environmental and engineering
problems. Researchers and practicing geophysicists in different regions
have developed innovative and successful approaches that are not widely
known in the worldwide geophysical communities, whereas a lot of challenging
exploration and engineering problems may not be exposed to researchers
from different regions. The goal of this SEG/CGS workshop is to bring
together experts from academia, government agencies, resources companies,
and contractors to share the latest technological and methodological developments
and successful experiences, and to discuss challenges and future directions
and needs.
Topics
Methodologies & Technologies
- Instrumentation (land, marine, airborne and borehole) and field data acquisition
- Processing, modeling, and interpretation algorithms
- Integrated interpretation and joint inversion of multiple
data sets
Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
- Hydrocarbon prospect generation
- Structural studies
- Exploration in difficult areas: deepwater, volcanics, fracture, etc
- Sub-salt and sub-basalt imaging
- Heavy oil and oil sands
- Reservoir monitoring
Mining & Geothermal Applications
- Reconnaissance and regional structure mapping
- Regional lithology and mineralogy prediction
- Exploration under cover and at depth
- Deposit delineation and characterization
- Geothermal exploration and monitoring
Environmental & Engineering Geophysics
- Carbon capture and storage
- Geophysics in archaeology
- Geophysics for groundwater and hydrology
- Geoforensics
- Geotechnical applications
SEG
Honorary Lecturers
SEG kindly sponsors presentation of two 2011 SEG Honorary Lectures during
the Workshop. The lecturers and the titles of their lectures are:
Richard Lane: Building on 3D geological knowledge through gravity and magnetic modeling workflows at regional to local scales
There is no additional charge for participants of the Workshop to attend these Lectures. For more information, please visit the web page of the SEG Honorary Lecture Program:
http://www.seg.org/education/lectures-courses/honorary-lecturers
Invited Presentations
Three keynote speakers have been confirmed. The speakers and the titles of their presentations are:
Jared Abraham: Airborne electromagnetic surveys: A quantitative tool for groundwater management
David Isles: How to get twice as much exploration value from aeromagnetic surveys
Max Meju: Structure-coupled joint inversion of geophysical data: Methods and challenges
Sponsorship
Main Sponsors:
Sponsors:
Contact Information
Xiong
Li: xli@fugro.com |
Yaoguo
Li: ygli@mines.edu |
Gary Liu:
gliu@seg.org |
Xiaohong
Meng: mxh@cugb.edu.cn |