Southwest Section

The Gravity and Magnetics Committee jointly with the Near Surface Technical Section and the Mining Committee call for papers for a workshop scheduled for two half-days and focusing on magnetic methods in memory of a potential-field pioneer, Afif Saad. Workshop organizers welcome contributions from academia, industry, and government organizations that emphasize various applications of the magnetic method to a wide range of scientific and applied problems. Students and early- and mid-career participants who are willing to explore new career directions are particularly encouraged to participate.

Cities around the world, and especially in densely populated regions like Asia, have the potential to be the most efficient form of human society. Maintaining sustainability in megacities is crucial to seeking a global sustainable solution for the limited space, water, and energy resources. Geophysics has the potential to provide essential knowledge for urban planning, urban activity monitoring, and urban circular economy. To fully release such potential, innovations are needed to integrate new and conventional sensors, as well as nondedicated sensors and open social information. Furthermore, both physics-based and data-driven methods are essential to delineating different sources for urban activity monitoring and urban space characterization. Bridging the gap between geophysics, civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, digital informatics, and social economics provides the framework to guide project owners and local authorities to develop specific strategies for the sustainable development and management of urban environments.

The search and characterization of anthropogenic features is an important application for geophysical prospecting. Geophysical methods have also become a popular tool to detect both prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and for discovery of hydrologic and/or environmental problems at the archeological sites. This workshop will teach participants how geophysicists can be valuable collaborators for these investigations and aid in the planning for identifying unknown sites and future excavation or preservation plans.

The Gravity and Magnetics Committee jointly with the Near Surface Technical Section and the Mining Committee call for papers for a workshop scheduled for two half-days and focusing on magnetic method in memory of a potential-field pioneer, Afif Saad. Workshop organizers welcome contributions from academia, industry, and government organizations that emphasize various applications of the magnetic method to a wide range of scientific and applied problems. Students and the early- and mid-career participants who are willing to explore new career directions are particularly encouraged to participate.

As demands for metals increase globally, many national governments have initiated programs toward critical mineral mapping that leverage legacy potential-field data combined with newly acquired data at national to global scales. Join us to hear from geophysical service companies, government agencies, industry, and academia on how synthesis of multiple geophysical data sets to image the concealed parts of the geology is crucial to filling the gaps in our knowledge in understanding both commercial and noncommercial geology.

DAS, DTS, and DSS are the three distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) technologies that have drawn much attention in recent years. Sensing fibers can be deployed in places that are otherwise inaccessible due to small size, high endurance to harsh environments, long sensing range as well as limited cost. This workshop focuses on sharing the recent development of the hardware, software, and interpretation methods of DFOS applications in all fields of applied geophysics.