Events & Courses

Near Surface Geoscience 2016 offers the following conferences: 

• 22nd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
• 2nd Applied Shallow Marine Geophysics Conference
• 1st Conference on Geophysics for Mineral Exploration and Mining

In addition to the conferences there will be a Near Surface Geoscience exhibition, field trips and workshops. Find out more on the conference website.

Call for Abstracts

The topics have been confirmed and the call for abstracts is open. Should you wish to contribute to the Near Surface Geoscience technical programme, please visit the conference website. The deadline of the call for extended abstracts is 15 April 2016 (23:59 hrs, GMT +1).

Environmental and Engineering Abstract Topics

1. Archaeological Prospecting
2. Assessment of Industrial and Mineral Deposits
3. Carbon Capture and Storage
4. Environmental and Geohazard Studies
5. Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Investigations
6. High Resolution Engineering Seismic Studies
7. Hydrogeophysics
8. Investigations of Landfills, Urban Areas and Industrial Sites
9. Modelling, Inversion and Data-processing
10. Monitoring and Characterisation
11. New Technologies and Research Trends
12. Radioactive Waste Disposal
13. Slope Instabilities, Tunnel and Dams Investigations

Submit your abstract!

Shallow Marine Geophysics: Abstract Topics

1. Advances and Challenges in Geophysical Data Collection and Processing Techniques - including shallow imaging, novel seismic technologies, innovations for engineering purposes
2. Non-seismic Methods - (CS)EM, gravity, magnetic (including UXO smart tools), resistivity, and integration
3. Environmental Applications - including decommissioning and clean-up, leakage, injection, and deep-sea mining
4. Seismic Interpretation and Integration - including the interpretation of geohazards, integration of geology, geophysics, geotechnics and geomechanics (ground modelling), seismic anomalies
5. Quantitative Methods - including geophysics to rock physical models at low-stresses, static vs. dynamic properties; inversion, and attenuation
6. Monitoring and Overburden Integrity - including pore pressure prediction, results from time-lapse surveys, subsidence, fluid migration phenomena, leakage and drilling hazard analysis 

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Geophysics for Mineral Exploration and Mining: Abstract Topics

1. Physical Properties of Mineral Deposits and Their Geophysical Signatures
2. Ground and Airborne Potential Field Methods
3. Ground and Airborne EM Methods
4. Geophysical Methods for Off-shore Mineral Exploration
5. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
6. 3D inversion for Mining and Mineral Exploration Methods
7. Downhole and In-mine Geophysical Methods
8. Ground and Airborne Spectral Induced Polarization Methods
9. Seismic Imaging of Mineral Deposits
10. Emerging Geophysical Techniques for Mineral Exploration
11. Joint Inversion and Integration of Multimodal Geophysical Data