Program
The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and Al Ain City Municipality (AAM) in partnership with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) are proud to announce the third edition of the International Conference on Engineering Geophysics (ICEG). This third edition will be November 15-18, 2015 and on the grounds of the UAEU in the Conference Auditorium of the Crescent Building.
The success of the first and second ICEGs is reflected by the number of participants and the great interest shown by and feedback from both local authorities and the international geo-community working with geophysical methods applied to engineering, environmental, archaeological, geotechnical, and forensic problems. Overwhelming encouragement from this community has led to the third in the series and decision to extend the fields of interest to a wider range of near surface related specialties including groundwater, time-lapse, security, seismicity, and geothermal to name a few options. Beyond this 2015 event, this world class series will be broadened to allow sharing of the event with other regional partners with equivalent enthusiasm for the application of geophysics to near-surface problems.
The United Arab Emirates is building a sustainable, balanced, and diversified economy to ensure stability and prosperity through innovation and excellence as priorities. This conference has been designed and operated with those attributes and guidelines as drivers. Those priorities speak to social responsibility and strongly signal the need for effective and technically sound engineering geophysics supporting regional growth. Therefore, the conscientious and rigorous application of engineering geophysics has become mandatory prior to approval of any construction project in Abu Dhabi Emirate.
The objectives of the ICEG2015 are to concentrate on global innovation, creativity, advances, and new approaches in the field of engineering/environmental geophysics and in related fields. In addition to the core engineering/environmental and geotechnical focuses of this coming event, special sessions in related applications to Archaeology, Energy, and Forensic Geophysics. In addition, international experts at the very cutting edge of their science or engineering will be delivering keynote presentations on their latest research, experiences, future goals for engineering/environmental geophysics and raising public awareness on the critical role of near surface geophysics.
In addition to the regular conference program, Oz Yilmaz, the 2015 SEG DISC, will deliver a full day course on Engineering Seismology: With Applications to Geotechnical Engineering on 14 November 2015. Learn more about the DISC at ICEG 2015.
Submission Guidelines & Topics
The Technical Committee invites submissions via the SEG website of Extended Abstracts, four (4) pages in length (including figures and references) under the following topics:
- Engineering Geophysical Applications for Civil and Industrial Construction Domains
- Environmental Geophysics Applications and Natural Hazards
- Archeo-Geophysics
- Engineering Geophysics Application for the Energy Industry
- Hydrogeophysics – Groundwater and shallow water structures and characterization
- Engineering Geology – Ground stability, material properties, site response, coastal/sedimentation, weathered layer/stratigraphy/variability, etc.
- Airborne Geophysics
- New Approaches and Data Processing
- Near-Surface Geophysics for Forensic Applications
- Advanced Field Technologies
Important: Submission of abstracts less than the required number of pages will be requested for re-submission as a four-page Extended Abstract for consideration by the Technical Program Committee.
Who should attend?
This will be an outstanding venue and opportunity to explore and acquaint with the many applications of near surface geophysics in this rapidly developing region. The mixture of academia, research, government, and industry attendees will provide the flavor, diversity, and challenges of regional problems as well as insights into problems and solutions from other areas around the globe. This is must attend meeting for those in industry looking for business development opportunities in this very active and rapidly developing region. As well, researchers looking for those truly unique challenges, where ground stability, infrastructure, and characterization cross paths with thousands of years of history and cultural development, where the crossroads of many millennium of civilizations are part of everyday engineering problems. Academic and personal growth through information exchange and cultivating of collaborative relationships will no doubt be a principle underpinning that all those that attend will benefit from.
Call for Papers Deadline
ICEG Technical committee will accept paper submissions received before its selection meeting scheduled in 1st week of May 2015. Submit applications form and abstract via email to iceg2015@seg.org.
