WEDNESDAY 20th OF AUGUST
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 14:15: Program committee: Welcome
Session 1. Keywords: Arctic data acquisition, seismic exploration, DAS, low-frequency data
Chair: Vemund Thorkildsen
14:15 – 15:00: Keynote 1: Tor Arne Johansen: Arctic geophysics – the way ahead!
15:00 – 15:25: Tora Haugen Myklebust, Robin André Rørstadbotnen, Martin Landrø: The potential of Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Arctic Seismic Exploration: A case study from Slakbreen, Svalbard
15:25 – 15:50: Robin André Rørstadbotnen, Martin Landrø: Tidal period signals from DAS of two 260 km fiber cables in Svalbard, Norway
Coffee break (20 min)
Session 2. Keywords: Earthquake catalogue, relocation, CO₂ emissions
16:10 – 16:35: Annie Elisabeth Jerkins, Johannes Schweitzer, Tom Kettlety, Evgeniia Martuganova, Daniela Kühn, Volker Oye: A Relocated Earthquake Catalogue for the North Sea (1961–2022): Challenges and Insights for earthquake analysis
16:35 – 17:00: Chloé Delbet, Philip Ringrose: Developing a unified catalogue of seismicity in the Iceland-Norway region and linking to natural CO₂ emissions
18:00 – 20:00: Icebreaker at the hotel
20:00: Dinner at the hotel
THURSDAY 21st of AUGUST
Session 3. Keywords: Near-surface geophysics, statistical modeling, velocity estimation, CNN
Chair: Wictor Waldemar Weibull
09:15 – 10:00: Keynote 2: Alireza Mahlemir: Stepping Up Geophysical Techniques for Enhanced Site Characterization and Mineral Exploration
10:00 – 10:25: Benyamin Khadem: Statistical rock physics modeling: A new algorithm for data augmentation
10:25 – 10:50: Guillermina Senn, Matthew Walker, Håkon Tjemland, Andrew Holbrook: Scalable Bayesian seismic wavelet estimation
Coffee break (25 min)
11:15 – 11:40: Jokhongir Khayrullaev, Einar Iversen, Morten Jakobsen, Inga Berre: Estimation of interval P-wave velocities from Dix velocities using a neural network parameterization
11:40 – 12:05: Nisar Ahmed, Wiktor Weibull: Hybrid CNN-transformer network for predicting elastic and petrophysical properties from seismic data
12:05 – 12:30: Sushil Achyrya: Attention-Driven 1D Convolutional Neural Networks for Depth Alignment of Geophysical Well Logs
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 4. Keywords: Anisotropy, singularity points, diving waves
Chair: Andreia Plaza-Faverola
14:00 – 14:25: Alexey Stovas: Effect of singularity point on the slowness surface for converted waves
14:25 – 14:50: Kristoffer Tesdal Galtung, Alexey Stovas: Diving wave imaging moveout in acoustic factorized orthorhombic anisotropic media
Coffee Break (15 m)
15:05 – 15:30: Jordão Saide, Alexey Stovas: Sensitivity of singularity points position to fracture weakness change
15:30 – 15:55: Wiktor Waldemar Weibull: Joint Optimization first arrivals and image gathers for anisotropic parameter estimation in 2D TTI media
15:55 – 16:20: Marteen de Hoop and Bjørn Ursin: Memorial for Martin Tygel
18:00 Departure from Nyvågar to Henningsvær
18:30: Dinner in Henningsvær at TBD.
00:00: Departure from Henningsvær to Nyvågar
FRIDAY 22nd OF AUGUST
Session 5. Keywords: Rock physics modeling, Born series, subsurface characterization, seismic data reconstruction
Chair: Robin André Rørstadbotnen
09:15 – 09:40: Per Avseth, Ivan Lehocki: Rock physics modeling of shales constrained by thermal history
09:40 – 10:05: Morten Jakobsen: On the convergent Born series for the Helmholtz equation: Hilbert space analysis and applications
10:05 – 10:30: Andreia Plaza-Faverola: UiT’s integrated high-resolution seismic and petrophysical lab for subsurface characterisation
Coffee break (20 min)
10:50 – 11:15: Vemund Thorkildsen: AUV based geophysics – Current practices
11:15 – 11:40: Giacomo Roncoroni: Bi-LSTM reconstruction of sub-4 Hz marine seismic data: tests on airgun and TPS
11:40 – 12:00: Closing remarks
End of seminar