The BCGS executive are pleased to announce our upcoming BCGS 2025 Roundup Breakfast.
| Speaker: | Yaoguo Li, PhD. Professor, Center for Gravity, Electrical, and Magnetic Studies, Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines |
| Title: | Geologic hydrogen and an emerging role of mining geophysics |
| Date: | Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
| Time: | 7:45am – 9:45am PST |
| Location: | Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (SFU) Strategy Room 320 580 West Hastings Street Vancouver BC, V6B 1L6 (enter via Seymour Street Courtyard Entrance) https://maps.app.goo.gl/hjZdjnkWSUMnFZeK9 |
| Registration: | Industry – $80 Student – $20 |
Breakfast will be served buffet style and consist of scrambled eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, broiled tomatos, freshly baked muffins/scones/croissants, fruit preserves, juice, and coffee/tea/water.
Please register and pay via Paypal below.
Registration will close on Fri, Jan 17 @ 12pm. Space is limited so register early!
Abstract:
Geologic hydrogen and an emerging role of mining geophysics
Yaoguo Li * & Mengli Zhang
Center for Gravity, Electrical, and Magnetic Studies,Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines
Geologic hydrogen has emerged as a potentially transformational new energy resource in the quest to transition to net-zero emission energy supplies. If realized, this new form of energy resource could circumvent the insurmountable challenge of finding and producing enough metals and critical minerals to meet the demands of clean energy. Addressing the technical challenges to finding geologic hydrogen requires the reconfiguration and recombination of two major branches of exploration geophysics, namely, the mineral exploration and oil & gas exploration. In this presentation, we will review geologic hydrogen as a primary energy source, the current understanding of the serpentinization-driven geologic hydrogen systems, and the need for integrated exploration strategies to find geologic hydrogen. We will also discuss a source rock-centered strategy for geologic hydrogen exploration, which spans from source-rock delineation to reservoir de-risking. The crucial role of mineral exploration geophysics in the source-rock centered exploration approach for the geologic hydrogen could provide mining geophysicists with a new cycle of opportunities and the new space of applying our expertise.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Yaoguo Li is a Professor in the Department of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines, where he has been leading the Center for Gravity, Electrical, and Magnetic Studies (CGEM), co-leading the Geo-Multiphysics Research Consortium (GMRC), and co-leading a newly formed consortium on the Potential of Geologic Hydrogen Gas Resources. He holds a PhD in geophysics from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Li’s research interests include inverse theory, and inversion of gravity, magnetic, electrical, and electromagnetic geophysical data, joint inversion and geology differentiation. Geologic hydrogen exploration, efficient data acquisition in resource exploration, and machine learning-assisted inversion methods are among his newest pursuits. His research covers a broad range of geoscientific problems in geologic hydrogen exploration, mineral exploration, and carbon storage monitoring. He is the instructor of the 11th EAGE Education Tour. He is a co-recipient of the 1999 Gerald W. Hohmann Award, and Honorary Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).
Sponsors:
Thank you to our sponsors for enabling us to subsidize the cost of students attending the breakfast.
