IAMG 2013 SESSIONS
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Session 1: Advances in classical
statistics relevant to the Geosciences
Conveners: Jack Schuenemeyer (Southwest
Statistical Consulting, LLC, USA -
jackswsc@q.com -), Ricardo A. Olea (USGS,
USA -
rolea@usgs.gov -)
The session will be devoted to novel methodologies relevant to the advancement of modeling in the earth sciences by statistical methods using neither spatial nor temporal information |
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Session 2: Frontier Geostatistics
Convener: Jaime Gómez-Hernández (Universitat Politècnica
de València, SPAIN)
Geostatistics has evolved much since
its inception as a set of tools for the estimation of
mineral reserves. Nowadays, new algorithms are being
developed to handle complex curvilinear heterogeneity
patterns, non-Gaussian random functions, multivariate
problems, or inverse modeling for better understanding of
the natural world. This session aims to attract
presentations on the frontier of Geostatistics, either as
new algorithms or as applications of recently developed
ones. |
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Session 3: Compositional Data
Analysis Applied to Geochemistry
Conveners: Antonella Buccianti
(Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence,
ITALY), Eric Grunsky (Division du Nord du Canada
Geological Survey of Canada, CANADA -
egrunsky@nrcan.gc.ca -)
This session will emphasize
developments in the theory and application of
compositional data with particular emphasis on geochemical
data. Contributions to the theory of compositional data
analysis in the context of stoichiometry and practical
applications in evaluating geochemical survey data are
welcomed. |
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Session 4: Data
assimilation in Geosciences
Conveners: Laurent
Bertino (Mohn-Sverdrup Center, NORWAY -
Laurent.Bertino@nersc.no -) and Hans Wackernagel (Ecole de Mines de Paris, FRANCE)
Forecasting problems involving
repetitive measurements and a dynamical model arise in
many areas of Geoscience. Data assimilation methods are
used for sequential model-updating to provide improved
forecasts by adjusting the description of the non-linear
dynamics provided by the numerical model when confronted
to new observations. Data assimilation, which is common
practice in meteorology and oceanography, has spread to
other areas of Geoscience like hydrogeology and petroleum
reservoir production optimization. This session will be
open both to new theoretical developments and to original
applications of data assimilation. |
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Session 5:
Machine learning in Geoscience applications
Converners: V. Demyanov (Heriot-Watt
University, Edinburgh, UK) and M. Kanevski (University of
Lausanne, SWITZERLAND)
The session aims to bring novel
computer science and statistical learning techniques into
Geosciences applications. Machine learning has gained
increasing recognition across Geosciences, including
reservoir characterisation, environmental and climate
modeling, pollution and natural hazard predictions,
renewable resources estimations, and other applications.
Learning based techniques, such as neural networks and
kernel based algorithms, have proven their power in data
and knowledge integration and assimilation. The session
will invite multi-disciplinary contributions that will
demonstrate recent advances in applying learning based
algorithms to Geosciences problems.
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Session 6: Spatiotemporal analysis:
structural complexity and extreme behaviour
Convener: José
Miguel Angulo (Universidad de Granada, SPAIN)
Proper representation of complexity
inherent to real systems, as well as understanding the
intrinsic nature of abnormal behavior leading to extreme
events, constitute two main challenges in Geosciences
research. In this context, structural characterization,
pattern description, prediction/interpolation and risk
assessment involve suitably advanced space-time modeling
approaches and statistical inferential methods. |
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Session 7:
Parameterization of soil systems at different scales
Conveners: Yakov Pachepsky (United
States Deparment of Agriculture, USA), Fernando San José
Martinez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SPAIN
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fernando.sanjose@upm.es -),
Miguel Ángel Martín (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
SPAIN -
miguelangel.martin@upm.es -) and Dai Yongjiu (Beijing Normal University, CHINA)
Soils are highly complex natural
systems. Soil complexity may be easily perceived, but it
is often difficult to represent it in mathematical terms
without making strong simplifying assumptions. This
implies that several different parameterizations can be
applicable and identifiable consistent with the available
observations. This session seeks presentations on soil
parameterization at different scales and for different
applications, search for patterns in soil-related
information, and soil process modeling. |
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Session 8:
Fractals, Chaos and Complexity in the Earth System
Convener: Carlos Paredes (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, SPAIN)
The study and understanding of how
nature works have changed since ideas from fractal
geometry, chaotic dynamical systems analysis, and
self-organized complexity have been applied. Fractal or
multifractal scaling, low dimensional chaoticity, self
organized criticality, non-extensive entropy, among
others, have been proposed suitable to describe,
characterize and also model a variety of geological,
morphodynamical and geophysical problems. Keeping in mind
the broad range of earth science scientist interested in
participate, presentations are called for this session to
interexchange suggestions, ideas, knowledge, and fruitful
discussions to get deeper into the causes of such
behaviours, why such comportments arise in geodynamics,
and how they could be used in a phenomena modeling
framework. |
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Session 9:
Remote Sensing a Changing World
Conveners:
Peter Atkinson (University of Southampton, UK
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P.M.Atkinson@soton.ac.uk -), José
Fernandez (Spanish National Research Council CSIC, SPAIN
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jft@mat.ucm.es -)
Remote sensing has come of age and is
now used routinely and operationally to monitor changes on
the Earth's surface over vast areas. At the same time,
archive time-series of spatially extensive images present
new opportunities for monitoring fundamental changes
(e.g., changes in carbon fluxes, energy exchanges, species
distributions, mega-river planforms) over long
time-scales. These data present interesting challenges and
are leading to new developments in space-time
Geostatistics and related approaches. This session will
showcase the latest advances in space-time methods for
remote sensing monitoring of changes on the Earth's
surface. |
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Session 10: Radar remote sensing for the detection, monitoring and modelling of ground instabilities
Conveners: Dr. Gerardo Herrera García (IGME, SPAIN -
g.herrera@igme.es -), Dr. Tomas M. Fernandez-Steeger (RWTH
Aachen, GERMANY)
In the last
decades, differential synthetic aperture radar
interferometry (DInSAR) has become a very useful microwave-based
remote sensing technique for detecting and monitoring
landslides and subsidence processes. The development of
advanced DInSAR algorithms, the availability of high
resolution satellite missions (TerraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed),
as well as near future satellite systems (e.g. SENTINEL)
will increase the use of radar remote sensing. The session
brings together earth scientists, engineers and remote
sensing experts to discuss the state-of-the-art of radar
remote sensing applications for detecting, monitoring and
modelling ground deformations and their local and regional
consequences on structures and infrastructures. The
session welcomes: (i) studies describing the integration
of in-situ and remote sensing observations; (ii) studies
discussing innovative spaceborne and ground-based
microwave techniques, and associated data processing
methods; (iii) critical analyses of existing and
innovative methods for geo-mechanical modelling,
vulnerability assessment and damage quantification; (iv)
the results of case studies executed at different spatial
and temporal scales, in different climatic,
physiographical, geographical and societal settings. |
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Session 11: Geographic Information
Systems/Geoinformatics
Conveners: Robert Marschallinger
(University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA
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robert.marschallinger@sbg.ac.at), Eric Grunsky (Division
du Nord du Canada Geological Survey of Canada, CANADA
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egrunsky@nrcan.gc.ca -)
This session will provide a forum for
the presentation of recent advances in the analysis and
interpretation of georeferenced geoscience data.
Contributions to theory and practice for geoscience data
capture, display, analysis and interpretation are
welcomed. |
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Session 12: Quantitative methods in
Geomorphology and Land Surface Processes
Convener: Francisco Gutiérrez
(Universidad de Zaragoza, SPAIN -
gutierrezfgutier@unizar.es)
The study of surface processes and the
resulting landforms are of major interest for our society.
A significant proportion of the geoenvironmental problems
are related to the interactions between human activity and
geomorphic processes. Quantitative analyses are essential
to develop a sound scientific and technical basis for a
proper management of the rapidly growing geomorphological
problems. |
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Session 13:
Deformation modeling, Geodynamics and natural hazards
Conveners: José Fernández (Spanish
Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, SPAIN -
jft@mat.ucm.es -), Pablo J. González (University of Western Ontario, CANADA)
Earth interior and surface processes redistribute masses and deform the Earth’s rocks. Usually such processes can be measured using space and terrestrial techniques providing high quality data. To understand the geodynamics and natural hazards, it is essential the interpretation of spatial and temporal distribution of ground surface displacements and gravity changes based on new development of mathematical (analytical and
numerical) models and methods. The new venues should be able to synthesize in a compact and efficient fashion the Earth’s complex processes and the near-future available large quantities of data. This session should be dedicated to the description of theoretical models, inversion techniques and their application to observational geodetic and geophysical data sets in active areas
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Session 14:
Hydrogeology: From process
understanding to improved predictions
Convener: Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
(Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, GERMANY -
h.hendricks-franssen@fz-juelich.de -)
This session focuses on new
developments contributing to improved predictions of flow
and transport processes in aquifers, by means of process
understanding and subsurface characterization. Possible
topics are anomalous transport behavior in aquifers,
reactive transport, upscaling of transport parameters,
subsurface parameter identification including realistic
representation of Geology and fully coupled modeling of
the groundwater compartment together with other
compartments (e.g., vadose zone, overland flow and land
surface). |
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Session 15: Quantitative hydrology: working across
scientific disciplines and time-space scales
Conveners
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Leticia Rodríguez (Centro de Estudio Hidro-Ambientales.
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, ARGENTINA -
leticia@fich1.unl.edu.ar -), Allen Batteman Pinzon
(Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, SPAIN
In recent
decades, multidisciplinary
approaches have emerged linking various hydrological
processes to land-atmosphere interactions, river ecology,
geomorphology, plant physiology, and biogeochemical
cycles. An increasing number of processes are being
gradually coupled and incorporated into hydrological
models to improve the representation of underlying physics
and mechanisms at different space-time scales and to test
hypotheses, while research continues to advance in order
to reduce uncertainties in model predictions. This
session invites contributions, both theoretical and
applied. |
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Session 16: Quantitative
Environmental Geology
Conveners: Juan Antonio Luque Espinar (IGME, SPAIN -
ja.luque@igme.es -),
Juan Grima Olmedo (IGME, SPAIN -
j.grima@igme.es -), Mario Chica Olmo
(Universidad Granada, SPAIN)
Quantitative Environmental Geology is
focused to be a multidisciplinary session concerned with
quantitative research in all aspects of interaction
between humans and the earth including: environmental
problems (contamination, impact, hazards,
vulnerability,…), management of environmental data and
information, important case studies and proposal of
innovative technologies. |
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Session 17: Modeling of energy
resources
Conveners: Ricardo
A. Olea (USGS, USA -
rolea@usgs.gov -), Jef Caers (Stanford University, USA
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jcaers@stanford.edu
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As demand increases and remaining nonrenewable resources
are continuously reduced, detection of future energy
resources as well as enhanced recovery of existing
resources become progressively critical. This session is
devoted to the probabilistic assessment of subsurface
energy resources, from exploration to production. |
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Session 18: New Developments in Oil and
Gas Discovery Modeling
Convener: Gordon M
Kaufman (Sloan School of Management MIT, USA)
The state of the art of oil and gas
discovery modeling has both broadened and deepened over
the past decade. MCMC methods enable computation of
complex predictive distributions, graphical display
technology has transformed our ability to present spatial
data in interesting and informative ways and we better
understand how to blend expert geological judgment with
observed geological and geophysical data. Taken together,
these advances have greatly enhanced our ability to model
returns to exploration activity, including former "exotic"
petroleum sources such as shale gas and natural gas
hydrates. |
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Session 19: Open Session on Mathematics of Oil Recovery
(OSMOR)
Conveners: Sid-Ali Ouadfeul (Algerian Petroleum
Institute, IAP, ALGERIA -
souadfeul@ymail.com -), Leila Aliouane (LABOPHYT, FHC,
UMBB, ALGERIA)
Many mathematical models have been widely used for oil
recovery; they can help for research of hydrocarbon
accumulations, reserves estimation, reservoir
characterization, data modeling, petrophysical modeling,
data inversion...etc.
The goal of this session is to show the utility of
mathematics in oil recovery, presenting new mathematical
model of oil recovery, case study and application on real
data. Papers related to the topic are welcome. |
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Session
20: Geostatistical priors in inversion of geophysical and
engineering data
Conveners: Klaus Mosegaard (Technical University of
Denmark, DENMARK), Thomas Mejer Hansen (Technical
University of Denmark, DENMARK)
This session will explore current
research in integration of geostatistical information with
geophysical or engineering data. Special focus will be on
new ideas and methods for incorporating geological realism
into the solution of inverse problems such as history
matching and seismic inversion. |
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Session
21:
Mineral and energy resources for planet Earth: evaluation,
extraction and optimal management
Convener: Peter
Dowd (University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA -
peter.dowd@adelaide.edu.au -)
The requirement for environmentally
sustainable extraction of mineral and energy resources
places greater emphasis on their accurate evaluation and
subsequent optimal extraction. This session welcomes
papers on the evaluation, extraction and management of
natural resources in the sub-surface of the Earth
including, minerals, coal, hydrocarbons and heat from
geothermal sources. Papers on associated environmental
aspects are also welcome; for example, ground water
invasion into a mine and the quantification of the
environmental impact of mining on local aquifers. Papers
should be within a mathematical geology context; novel
applications of existing methods and presentation of new
methods are equally welcome.
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Session 22: Recent advances in
Quantitative Methods applied to Stratigraphy and
Paleontology
Conveners: Francisco Javier
Rodríguez Tovar (Universidad de Granada, SPAIN), Andrea
Baucon (UNESCO Geopark Naturtejo Meseta Meridional,
PORTUGAL -
andrea@tracemaker.com -), Carlos Neto de Carvalho (UNESCO Geopark
Naturtejo Meseta Meridional, PORTUGAL -
carlos.praedichnia@gmail.com -)
Since the 1960’s the application of
quantitative methods in stratigraphical and
paleontological researches has been revealed as a very
useful tool. The usefulness of quantitative methods has
been especially significant in particular fields as
phylogenetic analysis, morphometry, biostratigraphy,
paleobiogeography, paleoecology, cyclostratigraphy, and
genetic stratigraphy, among others. This topic focused on
the recent advances registered in this approach.
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Session 23: Geo-mathematical models of folds and
folding Conveners: J.I. Soto (Granada University,
SPAIN), J. Poblet (Oviedo University, SPAIN) and F.
Bastida (Oviedo University, SPAIN)
Folds are one of the most common
structures that characterize the deformed regions in the
Earth. This session aims to assemble the different
mathematical approaches used to analyse the geometry and
development of natural and experimental folds merging
geological observations, collected from outcrop- to
regional-scales, together with geophysical data recorded
in 2D and 3D seismic datasets. Since integration of
geological measurements and observations with various
mathematical tools is an irreplaceable tool to reconstruct
the spatial and temporal evolution of fold structures,
this session explores how these results help to understand
the folding kinematics and mechanics. |
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Session
24:
Mathematical Geosciences and Planetary Geology
Conveners: Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn (Universidad de Girona,
SPAIN -
vera.pawlowsky@udg.edu -), Jesús Martínez Frías (Centro de Astrobiología, SPAIN)
The application and use of Mathematics
in geological research and technology is not only focused
on dealing with specific issues of our planet. Study
findings in Mathematical Geosciences are also extremely
important for the research of meteorites, impact events,
and Planetary Geology and exploration (sensu lato),
including the characterization of Mars analogs on the
Earth. Contributions to this vast field of science are
wellcome. |
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Session
25:
Mathematics of Planet Earth
Conveners: Willi Freeden (TU
Kaiserslautern, GERMANY), Zuhair Nashed (University of Florida, USA)
2013 will be a special year of emphasis
on the Mathematics of Planet Earth interpreted as broadly
as possible (www.mpe2013.org).
Many dynamic processes occur in our planet and mathematics
plays an important role in their modeling and
understanding. This will be a multidisciplinary session
that will host research contributions on modelling and
simulation of geological dynamic systems and computational
methods necessary for the mathematical treatment of
geoscientifically relevant problems. |
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Session 26: Geoscience Data Models for Practical
Interoperability
Conveners: Santiago Martín Alfageme
(IGME, SPAIN -
s.martin@igme.es -), Fernando Perez Cerdan (IGME, SPAIN), Helmut
Schaeben (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg,
GERMANY)
Appropriate data models for
multidimensional geological data are the ultimate
prerequisite for geo-database systems and geo-data
infrastructures to put interoperability to practice. Here,
interoperability stands primarily for efficient exchange
of multidimensional geo-data and communication of
corresponding 3d/4d geo-models without loss of information.
To proceed further towards practical interoperability the
session calls for contributions from academia and software
developers as well as from geological surveys, mining
authorities and geo-industries. The session seeks to offer
an opportunity to exchange achievements and to discuss
remaining problems on the way to an efficient geo-data
infrastructure. |
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Session 27: Advances on Stochastic Non Linear Methods
and Inverse Problems for Dynamic Models
Convener: José Antonio Vargas-Guzmán (Saudi Aramco,
SAUDI ARABIA -
jose.vargasguzman@aramco.com
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Geosciences, hydrology and petroleum science are
putting strong emphasis on dynamic modeling of nonlinear
stochastic processes. The fundamental inputs to such
endeavors are skewed distributed parameters; which require
inverse solutions that integrate parameter fields from
nonlinear geostatistics with numerical solutions of
stochastic differential equations. This session offers a
venue to discuss practical modeling of nonlinear
stochastic fields in a multidisciplinary framework, as
required for practical applications.
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IAMG 2013 Scientific
Programme
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July 31 2013.
Conference Scientific Programme in pdf
downloadable format |
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