Conference Theme:

Geophysics Role in Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Panel Sessions:

• Mining with Net Zero Emissions
• Role and contribution of near-surface geophysics to sustainable future

TOPICS

1. The Role of (Engineering) Geophysics in the Energy Transition and response to Climate Change
   • Geothermal Energy, Subsurface / CO2-storage, Hydrogen and Methane Hydrates
   • Earth Resource Exploration

1. 1. 1. 1. Surface- and Groundwater (e.g., hydrogeophysics and hydrogeology incl. hydrological modeling, frack water, contamination, sea-level rise, salt water intrusion, inundation, drought, hydro-energy)
         2. Mining (salt, minerals and metals, deep-sea minerals, rare-Earth metals, storage)

1. • Geophysical Characterization for Platforms, Wind Turbines, Pipelines
   • Urban developments
   • Geo-Engineering
2. Technological / Methodological Advances
   • Seismics (e.g., FWI, tomography, advanced imaging, surface waves, scattering, ambient noise, interferometry, time-lapse/4D)
   • Electromagnetics (e.g., GPR, CSEM, TDEM, MT, Airborne EM)
   • Multi-physics (e.g., method integration, joint-inversion)
   • Borehole geophysics
   • Unmanned geophysical surveying
   • The role of near-surface geophysics in deep subsurface imaging and characterization (e.g., statics, sand dunes)
   • Data assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification
   • Time-lapse Geophysics
   • Other (e.g., gravity)
3. Machine-Learning and AI in Engineering Geophysics
4. Hazard and Risk
   • Assessment and Mitigation
   • Geohazards: natural and human-induced (e.g., liquefaction, induced seismicity, sink holes)
5. Planetary Geophysics
6. Case Studies of Engineering Geophysics
7. Broader Engineering Geophysics
   • Archaeogeophysics (Geophysical Applications in Archaeology)
   • Forensic Geophysics
   • Cryogeophysics (Geophysical investigation of ice sheet, glacier dynamics and sea-level rise)
   • Geotechnics and Geophysics for Infrastructure and Urban Environment
8. Geophysical hazards and earthquake engineering/the role of geophysics in Earthquake Engineering
9. Case studies of engineering geophysics