GSH UPCOMING EVENTS!

FEBRUARY

2026 Rice Energy HPC Conference

Day: Tues-24-Feb-2026 to Thur-26-Feb-2026

Location: Rice University BRC, 6500 Main St, Houston, TX 77030

Summary: The 2026 Energy HPC & AI Conference marks the 19th year that the Ken Kennedy Institute has convened experts from the energy industry, academia, and national labs to share breakthroughs for HPC and AI technologies in improving performance and scalability.

GSH Board Meeting - February 26th

Meeting date has been moved!

Day: Thur-26-Feb-2026 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm This is a hybrid meeting.

Location: The GSH GeoScience Center, 1790 W. Sam Houston Parkway N, Houston, TX 77043

Summary: Monthly Board Meeting - for current members only.

MARCH

Data Processing and Acquisition SIG: Efficient Upside-Down Rayleigh-Marchenko Imaging Through Self-Supervised Focusing Function Estimation

Day: Tues-10-Mar-2026 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm This is a virtual only event.

Speaker: Ning Wang, Kaust, Saudi Arabia

Summary: The Marchenko method enables artifact-free subsurface imaging by reconstructing full-wavefield Green’s functions from surface seismic data, but its practical adoption remains limited by the high computational cost of estimating focusing functions...

Rock Physics SIG: (click to register)

This is a Joint Event with

Data Science and Machine Learning SIG: (click to register)

Integrated Quantitative Characterization of Deep Tight Mixed Carbonate–Clastic Reservoirs Reconciling Contradictory and Complementary Observations Through Quantitative Interpretation (QI)

Day: Wed-11-Mar-2026 11:00 am to 1:00 pm This is a hybrid meeting

Speaker: Dr Muhammad Zahid Afzal Durrani, Colorado School of Mines

Location: GSH Geoscience Center, 1790 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77043

Summary: Low-porosity mixed (carbonate–clastic) sedimentary reservoir systems challenge quantitative characterization due to fracture-dominated flow and non-unique attribute responses. Advances in quantitative interpretation integrating rock physics, anisotropy, lithofacies analysis, and improved subsurface imaging...

GSH Technical Luncheon: Evolution of the Bytes: How Geophysics Data is Overwhelming Digital Tools

Day: Wed-18-Mar-2026 11:00 1m to 1:00 pm This is a hybrid event.

Speaker: Jess Kosman, Katalyst

Summary: As a follow on to the very well received January technical presentation on the progression of sensor technology, this talk will focus on how the increasing spatial and temporal density of geophysical acquisition is threatening to make data platforms and workflows obsolete...

GSH Board Meeting - March 19th

Day: Thur-19-Mar-2026 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm This is a hybrid meeting.

Location: The GSH GeoScience Center, 1790 W. Sam Houston Parkway N, Houston, TX 77043

Summary: Monthly Board Meeting - for current members only.

2026 CCUS - Carbon Capture and Storage

Visit the GSH booth 707!

Day: Mon-30-Mar-2026 to Wed-01-Apr-2026

Location: ​The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, The Woodlands, Texas 77380

Summary: The technical geologic and engineering experience related to carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) that has been cultivated over the past two plus decades, combined with more recent policy instruments, such as the expanded 45Q tax credits for the use of CO2 associated with enhanced hydrocarbon recovery...

GSH Geophysics Academy

Day: 31-Mar-2026 to 2-Apr-2026

This is an in-person only meeting!

Location: Occidental Oil & Gas Corp, 5 Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX 77046

Summary: The 2026 Geophysics Academy is a training initiative organized by the GSH, aimed at providing geoscientists with the opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge. The academy will feature world-renowned geoscientists as instructors...

SAVE THE DATE

GSH Spring Symposium The Innovation Pivot: Geophysical Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

Day: 22-Apr-2026 to 23-Apr-2026

This is an in-person only meeting!

Location: The Norris Convention Center, 816 Town & Country Blvd, Suite 210, Houston, TX 77024.

Summary: Over the past thirty years, applied geophysics in the oil and gas industry has undergone a series of innovation pivots that fundamentally retooled the practicing geophysicist and reshaped how we do business...

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Read up on what's been happening at the GSH: Fall Forum 2025 Wrap-up: "From Waveforms to Insights - Latest Developments in Processing, Inversion and Artificial Intelligence" and read the most recent Word From the Board.