BCGS Fall Workshop: SEG 2017 DISC Short Course
| Date: | Tuesday – Wednesday, December 12-13, 2017 |
| Time | 8:00am PST to 9:00pm PST |
| Registration: | Cost: – Industry US$200 – Students US$50 Registration is through the SEG website. Click the button below to register. Note: This is a 2-day event. Registration for Dec 12 includes Dec 13. |
| Location: | UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7 |
| Details: | DISC 2017 website
Coffee breaks and lunch will be provided. |
Course Content:
Electromagnetics has applications in oil and gas exploration and production, mineral exploration, groundwater exploration and monitoring, geotechnical and environmental industries. Although it has widespread applications as a geophysical technique, it is not generally understood by the geoscience community. As a result it is underutilized, and in some cases, misused, as a technology.
The aim of this course is to provide over two days a fundamental understanding about EM geophysics so that practitioners can decide if an EM technique can help solve their problem, select which type of survey to employ, and set realistic expectations for what information can be gleaned. Case histories, spanning applications from many areas in the geosciences, are used as an underlying framework to bind the material together. For more information, please see the DISC 2017 online resources at http://disc2017.geosci.xyz.
We would like to encourage any of our members who have an EM case study at hand, and would like to contribute to the lab material, to contact the DISC 2017 lab team through their website: http://disc2017.geosci.xyz/#
Day 2: DISC Lab:
Attendees. Bring your EM problem or case study and lets discuss and analyze it as a group.
The DISC Lab days are designed for a smaller group of geoscientists. We ask participants to provide informal 5 min lightning talks about problems of local interest. We will then work as a group to break down the problems in terms of the 7-Step Framework introduced in course. If participants agree, their talks and results from discussions, will be uploaded to the web. By capturing these problems and state-of-progress onto the web, we hope to promote interaction between geoscientists worldwide.
About the Instructor:
Doug is a professor of Geophysics, director of the Geophysical Inversion Facility (GIF) and world leader in geophysical inversions. He is dedicated to making geophysics more useful for solving problems of relevance to society. Doug’s research career has focused upon the development of inversion methodologies and their application to solving applied problems in a variety of fields. Motivated to make geophysics more accessible and engaging, he has and continues to lead efforts for distributing software codes and learning resource material for students and practising geoscientists. In 2017, Doug will be on tour presenting the SEG Distinguished Instructor Short Course with the intention of promoting fundamental understanding about principles of electromagnetics and how the different surveys make use of these principles to tackle a broad spectrum of problems using EM geophysics.
Sponsorship Opportunities:
A big thank you to our sponsors!
Sponsorship opportunities are available!
Your company sponsorship goes towards helping us put on the workshop and to keep registration costs as low as possible, especially for students. The BCGS operates on a not-for-profit basis. Any profit we make from our events goes towards the BCGS scholarship fund, administered by the KEGS Foundation.
Contact a BCGS Executive member to discuss current opportunities.