As an addendum to Jean's excellent review of all things geophysical in the next month, the BC Geophysical Society is pleased to present the program for the annual BCGS Fall Symposium, this year to be held on 11 October, directly following SAGA in South Africa (if you can manage the jet lag). This year's theme is "Engineering geophysics applied to civil and mining engineering projects, groundwater investigations, and environmental studies".
Thomas Campagne, BCGS Secretary, writes in a posting to go online later today at www.bcgsonline.org: "One of the main focuses will be on tailings storage facilities (TSF) and the recent dam failures that have been well publicized recently. The topic will be reviewed by leading geotechnical and geophysical experts introducing the challenges of monitoring TSFs and providing case studies showcasing a variety of geophysical applications. The day will then open up to innovative geophysical applications in groundwater investigations, metal detection, subsea pipeline monitoring and hazard assessment. The talks will cover a range of cutting-edge technologies from GPR, 3D seismics, HR gradient magnetics, electromagnetics, to borehole logging, AUV and 4D database management."
We also list the 15 papers to be presented by leading geotechnical engineers and geophysicists in BC and across Canada and the US. More information can be found at www.bcgsonline.org.
Dennis Woods, Director, BC Geophysical Society
At 08:13 AM 11/09/2019, Jean M. Legault via SEGMIN wrote:
Hi Everyone,
In MG news, again wanted to mention the three big geophysical events on the schedule in Sept-October.
First, just recently returned from AEGC 2019 (Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference) in Perth that ran from Sept 1-6 and was very successful, attracting
as many as 1200 delegates, featuring 280 oral presentations in up to 9 parallel streams of Geoscience, as well as 80 posters presentations and attracted 80
separate exhibitors. The general mood was very positive, with an upward trend in exploration expenditures in Australia. Our thanks to our friends down under
for organizing another excellent conference and for being great hosts.
The technical content was quite high, as expected, with many quality papers presented in both the oral and poster sessions. Featured themes that stood out for
me were the Machine Learning/AI and Magnetotellurics sessions. And, of course, many quality minerals case-histories that are the highlights of the conference, for me.
Best minerals geophysics paper honours went to David Stannard et al. for their paper on âUpdate on the geophysical _expression_ of the Abra sedimentary
replacement Pb-Ag-Cu-Au deposit, Western Australia.â But there were many other great papers that were presented.
In fact, I wanted to extend a special âshout-outâ to Mike McMillan et al. for winning two awards including Best Cross-Disciplinary Minerals Paper for
âGold Prospectivity mapping using machine learningâ; as well as also receiving the Laric Hawkins award for Innovative use of Technology for Geophysics
for their paper on âUsing machine learning to interpret 3D airborne inversion electromagnetic inversionâ. Well done to Mike and his team.
You can access all the AEGC papers using this link: https://2019.aegc.com.au/program/
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Secondly, for those of you who will be attending SEG 2019 in San Antonio next week, the following events (below) will certainly be of interest.
I've arranged them in chronological order based on information that I was able to gather from the SEG website - my apologies for
those that I may have missed. It looks like the events are nicely spread out from Monday to Thursday, so kudos to the organizers for
this accomplishment. Just wanted to highlight our MG Committee Meeting on the Wednesday, September 18, from 5:30-6:30 PM
Hope to see you there.
As well, it's also time to start thinking about 2020 in Houston, Texas and so we'll soon be looking for suggestions for workshops, lunch speakers
and a field trip, as usual. Please put your thinking caps on we'll certainly be coming back to thhis again in the upcoming months.
In the meantime, here is a list of next week's key events at SEG 2019:
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Gravity and Magnetics Poster Session
GM P1: Examples and Methods for Potential Fields
Monday, September 16, 2019 | 1:50 PM 4:20 PM
Location: Poster Station 1
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Gravity and Magnetics Technical Session
GM 1: Potential Fields Interpretation via Inversion and Modeling
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | 8:30 AM 11:50 AM
Location: 214D
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Gravity and Magnetics Technical Session
GM 2: Inversions in Potential Fields Interpretation
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | 1:50 PM 5:10 PM
Location: 214D
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Mining Technical Session
MG 1: New Methods and Developments
Wednesday September 18, 0830 1150
Location: Room 301D
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Mining Poster Session
MG P1: New Methods and Case Histories
Wednesday September 18 | 1350 1620
Location: Poster Station 10
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Mining Committee Meeting
Wednesday, September 18 | 5:30-6:30 PM
Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel Room Bowie A
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Joint Gravity and Magnetics Committee & Mining Committee Workshop
W-10: Misac Nabighian Memorial Workshop
Thursday, September 19, 2019 | 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Location: 304B
You can access the SEG technical program using this link: https://seg.org/Annual-Meeting-2019/Education/Technical-Program
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Third and finally, just a last reminder that our friends at the South African Geophysical Association have organized SAGA 2019 that is being held from 7-9 October, 2019 at the
Southern Sun Elangeni and Maharani Hotel in Durban. The technical program is not yet available but will no doubt be very strong. I noticed that the online
registration portal is still open. It's my first visit to Durban, I'm very much looking forward to attend and so encourage others amongst you to have a look.
More information can be found using this link: http://sagaconference.co.za/
That's it for now talk to you soon.
Jean MG Committee chair ( [email protected])
Glen Chubak MG vice chair ([email protected])
Sarah Devriese MG Key Contact ( [email protected])
Jean M. Legault | M.Sc.A., P.Eng, P.Geo, Chief Geophysicist (Interpretation)
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