Themes and Topics

Following themes broadly describe the focus areas of deliberations, with a certain degree of overlapping. The structure has been deliberately kept flexible and will evolve depending on research contributions received from the participants. The minimum coverage topics of conference are:

1. Engineering Geophysics - application in geotechnical investigations, site characterization, tunnel route studies, bridge foundation studies, windmill foundation study, etc.
2. Mining Geophysics - Mineral Exploration, Geosciences for surface mining and safety, open cut mining, slope stability, tailings dam, etc.
3. Dam Geophysics - Geophysics for investigation of existing dams and appurtenant structures, investigations for new dam sites, hydropower sites etc.
4. Water Resources Geophysics - Groundwater Geophysics, hydro-geophysics & hydrogeology, climate, depletion of groundwater level & challenges of potable water availability, etc.
5. Urban Geophysics - Detection of underground utilities and pipelines, Mapping voids and sinkholes beneath urban areas, concealed water bodies, etc.
6. Archaeological Geophysics - Geophysics for archaeology and cultural heritage
7. Environmental Geophysics - Geophysics for mapping pollution plumes in soil and groundwater, Non-invasive techniques for detecting buried waste, etc.
8. Bio-geophysics - Effect of plants, microbial activity and other organisms on geologic materials and geophysical signatures
9. Airborne Geophysics - Mining, tunnel route investigations, geotechnical investigations, etc.
10. Geohazards and Disaster Mitigation - quick clay, landslide, liquefaction, earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami, ground subsidence, mining hazards etc.
11. Petroleum Exploration – improving deep images by understanding near-surface
12. Shallow marine geosciences
13. Geophysics for forensics detection
14. Applied Geophysics for Energy Transition (Green Energy- Solar, Wind, Geothermal & Hydrogen)

The methods in focus are as under:

1. Seismic (Refraction, Shallow Reflection, MASW, ReMi)
2. Electrical (ERI, VES, IP, GRP)
3. Electromagnetic, Magneto-telluric
4. Ground Penetrating Radar
5. Gravity & Magnetic
6. Borehole Geophysics (Well Logging, Tomography, Cross-hole/ Downhole)
7. Passive Seismic, Micro-tremor method.
8. Other Geophysical Methods - Radiometry, Thermal, Photometry, Muon etc.
9. Marine Geophysics Methods- SBP, SSS etc.
10. New Emerging Technologies and Instrument Development
11. MRS and NMR Methods
12. Geophysical Modelling and Inversion
13. Remote Sensing - Orbital Radar (Satellite, Airborne, UAV, Robotics)
14. AI/ML in Near Surface Geoscience and Engineering
15. New Technologies in Sensors, Equipment, and Digitalisation (Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, IoT, Big Data)

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