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12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society and EXPOGEF

Rio de Janeiro, 15-18 August 2011

Oral Presentations:
- Lithologic characterization using magnetic and gravity gradient data over an iron ore formation int he Quadrilatero Ferrifero- Minas Gerais - Brazil by Cericia Martinez, Yaoguo Li, and Richard Krahenbuhl.

- A general framewok for 3D interpretation of magnetic data affected by remanence and self-demagnitization by Yaoguo Li

- Geophysical inversion using petrophysical constraints iwth application to lithology differentiation by Jiajia Sun and Yaogsuo Li

- 4D gravity modeling: integrating seismic data with highly constrained gravity inversions for effective reservoir monitoring by Richard Krahenbuhl and Yaoguo Li

GEM Beijing 2011

Beijing, 10-13 October 2011

Co-Organized by Yaoguo Li

Topics include:

-Methodologies and Technologies

-Oil and Gas Exploration

-Mining and Geothermal Applications

-Environmental and Engineering Geophysics


SEG 2011
: Energy Flowing from Innovation
San Antonio, 18-23 September 2011

-Inversion of regional gravity gradient data over the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa by Cericia Martinez and Yaoguo Li

-Lithologic characterization using magnetic and gravity gradient data over an iron ore formation by Cericia Martinez, Yaoguo Li, Richard Krahenbuhl, and Marco Braga

-Data-adaptive compressive inversion of multichannel geophysical data by M. Andy Kass and Yaoguo Li

-Geophysical inversion using petrophysical constraints with applicaiton to lithology differentiation by Jiajia Sun and Yaoguo Li

 

Upcoming Events


-2012 ASEG

-KEGS PDAC Symposium Presentation by Yaoguo Li

-Mason Andrew Kass's Doctoral Defense


Awards

-SEG 2010 Mining and Geothermal Committee's Best Student Paper Award: Cericia Martinez (presenter), Yaoguo Li, Richard Krahenbuhl, and Marco Braga for their paper on 3D Inversion of gravity gradiometry for iron ore exploration in Brazil.

-ASEG 2010 Laric Hawkins Award: Andy Kass, Kris Davis, and Yaoguo Li: Rapid gravity and gravity gradiometry terrain corrections via an adaptive quadtree mesh discretization.

-SEG 2010 IQ Best Earth Paper Award Finalist (winner not yet decided): Richard Krahenbuhl, Yaoguo Li, and Tom Davis: 4D gravity monitoring of fluid movement at Delhi Field, LA. A feasibility study with seismic and well data.

-SEG 2005 Best Student Paper Award: Kristofer Davis, Yaoguo Li, and Misac Nabighian: Automatic detection of magnetic UXO anomalies using extended Euler deconvolution.

-SEG 2004 Best Student Paper Award: Richard A. Krahenbuhl, and Yaoguo Li: Hybrid optimization for a binary inverse problem.

Additional News

-Welcome to the 2011-2012 Visiting Scholars: Marcelo, Dionision, and Shuling.

-Congraduations to Jeff Shoffner on his graduation from the Master's Degree Program in Fall 2011.