会议名称(中文)：  国际数学地球科学协会2014年会
会议名称(英文)：  Sixteenth IAMG conference
所属学科：  地球化学与矿床,地球物理,自然地理、城市与区域地理,计算机应用技术
开始日期：  2014-10-17
结束日期：  2014-10-20
所在国家：  印度
所在城市：  印度
具体地点：  New Delhi (India)
主办单位：  国际数学地球科学协会 
承办单位：  Jawaharlal Nehru University
议题： eostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment: Challenges, Processes and Strategies

[ 重要日期 ]
摘要截稿日期：  2014-03-01

[ 会务组联系方式 ]
联系人：  Mrs. Neelam Kapoor 
E-MAIL：  namms.travel@gmail.com 
会议网站：  http://www.jnu.ac.in/Conference/IAMG2014/
会议背景介绍： 
Earth is a bounty for the sustenance of life and the very existence of the human life depends on natural resources and congenial environment on the planet. Shortage of natural resources caused by a changing climate would have negative impacts in the environmental, socio-cultural, political and economic spheres of society. Dwindling of natural resources (i.e water, energy and ecosystem) due to geogenic and anthropogenic sources continues to be one of the critical challenges adversely affecting the natural ecosystems, agriculture, human health and productivity. In the present day world, wood, fossil and nuclear fuels are the major natural resources of energy whose consumption is increasing at an alarming rate. Continuing the use of these fuels is increasing the levels of toxins, residues and trace species in the environment-threatening life on this planet. The development of science and technology is transforming from a mainly descriptive stage to a more quantitative stage. In this transition, qualitative interpretations such as conceptual models are complemented with quantification such as numerical models, fast dynamic geologic models, deterministic and stochastic models. Due to an increase in the complexity of the problems faced by the geoscientists, it is require a common effort to establish new conceptual and numerical models to develop new paradigms. There is a need for understanding the synergy between classical geosciences and mathematics which can provide the methodological tools to tackle the complex problems in modern geosciences. Mathematics plays a key role in the mantle, oceans and atmosphere creating climate, causing natural disasters, and influencing fundamental aspects of life and life-supporting systems and many other processes affecting Planet Earth, both as a fundamental discipline and as an essential component of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

The aim of IAMG is to promote international support and make use of mathematics in geosciences research and in technology to gather innovative thoughts and information from international reputed scientists, directly and indirectly involved with natural resources and environment. The IAMG Annual Conference creates a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience and techniques through studies, investigation and practical application related to natural resource management. The Conference is intended at scientists, researchers, students, engineers, geostatistical analysts, geospatial specialists, consultants and government officials. The conference will allow the world's environmental, natural resource and mathematical geosciences community to celebrate together by exchanging innovative technologies pertinent to mathematics in the geosciences. The interactions among the multi-disciplinary participants of the Conference will also serve to recognize limitations of existing analysis approaches and help identify future research avenues. Mathematical geosciences have progressed tremendously and must continue to evolve in order to address global issues such as natural resources management, geostatistical and geospatial approaches.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) considers IAMG2014 would be an excellent opportunity for academicians' researchers and scientists from countries all over the world to exchange thoughts, knowledge and experience. At present mathematical geosciences are not so popular in India; the IAMG2014 conference (organizing first time in Indian sub-continent) will provide platform for key specialists in the geological fields to share knowledge with international reputed scientist and preparation of roadmap for the spreading mathematical geosciences in Indian geological community. Sixteenth IAMG conference will be organized by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will be held in New Delhi (India) from October 17-20, 2014.
征文范围及要求： 
Session 1: 3D Visualization in Geo- and Environmental Sciences
Convener: Peter Wycisk (peter.wycisk@geo.uni-halle.de) Martin Luther University, Germany

The importance of 3D visualization in geosciences and environmental sciences is increasing permanently. The thematic fields of interest are geography, geo-ecology, hydrogeology and hydrology. Here, beside the application of available tools the development of task specific routines often is needed. The session is addressed to all attendents who use GIS, 3D and 4D-modelling or programming as a methodological approach in order to work on data visualization and interpretation. The session calls for contributions which are related to development of methodological approaches or results on scientific or applyed projects by GIS and 3/4D/Modelling

Session 2: Hydrology and Time Series Analysis
Convener: Wolfgang Gossel (wolfgang.gossel@geo.uni-halle.de) Martin Luther University, Germany

Time series analysis is applied outside of earth sciences in a wide area. The special conditions of hydrological and hydrogeological time series make it necessary to establish other methods that fill gaps in registration, select outliers and find systematical errors before a conventional solution via FFT or another algorithm can be applied. Other techniques base on irregular datasets that can be used also in a wide range of geological applications.

Session 3: Isotope Hydrology
Convener: U. Saravana Kumar (vsk@barc.gov.in) Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India
Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes for better understanding and solving various issues related to environmental sciences is known for the last few decades. Human efforts in this area of knowledge has got further boost by major developments in high precision and sensitive instrumentation. These developments have opened-up new areas of research, resulting in even widening and deepening insight of geochemical processes around us leading to new discoveries. This versatile field has got applications in almost every compartment of environmental studies to name a few, atmospheric sciences, geology, hydrology and water resources management, oceanography, geochemistry, soil sciences and agriculture, radiation and health physics etc. This session would emphasise on recent developments in isotope hydrology techniques and associated analytical methods and modelling approaches etc.

Session 4: Environmental Geochemistry and Pollution
Converners: N Janardhana Raju, (njraju1963@yahoo.com) Jawaharlal Nehru University; AL Ramanathan (alrjnu@gmail.com) Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Environmental geochemistry is concerned with the chemical processes that are responsible for the distribution of elements in solid earth, its ocean and the atmosphere and how they have changed as a function of space and time. Human influence on the environment in tandem with natural processes that occur in geochemical cycle of an element. Environmental Pollution due to geogenic and anthropogenic i.e municipal, agricultural and industrial sources continues to be one of the critical challenges adversely affecting the natural ecosystems, agriculture and human health. The proposed session emphasize geochemical processes and pollution aspects of water, air, soil, coastal. Case studies on arsenic and fluoride and other heavy metal pollution etc in the natural environment.

Session 5: Climate and groundwater Functioning: the need for correct questions
Convener: Joel Carrillo Rivera (joeljcr@igg.unam.mx) UNAM, Mexico.

The understanding of groundwater functioning is a key element in the evaluation of the effects of any change in the prevailing climatic conditions. The groundwater flow system theory proposes a sound alternative to investigate how groundwater is vulnerable to changes in the climatic conditions, situation that is crucial when the water supply leans on groundwater, as it is the case in most arid and semiarid conditions worldwide. Case studies could provide additional insight on the processes involved as to start defining a suitable methodology that is consistent with groundwater recharge processes under different climatic conditions through the understanding of observed discharge conditions.

Session 6: Numerical Solutions in Hydrogeology
Convener: Wolfgang Gossel (wolfgang.gossel@geo.uni-halle.de) Martin Luther University, Germany.

Numerical solutions are widely used for highly complex equation systems, in hydrochemical modeling as well as in groundwater flow and transport modeling. Parallelization techniques for recent computer architectures improve the performance of the solutions dramatically but well-established algorithms have to be adapted to the new architectures.

Session 7: Geostatistics in hydrology
Convener: Andras Bardossy (Andras.Bardossy@iws.uni-stuttgart.de) Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

Session 8: Engineering Geology and Geotechnical engineering
Conveners: Robert Marschallinger (Robert.marschallinger@oeaw.ac.at) University of Salzburg, Austria; Shilpa Pal (shilpa@gbu.ac.in) Gautam Buddha University, India.

The session will devote the relevant topics such as Earthquake forecasting and early warning systems, Seismic Microzonation, vulnerability assessment and urban planning, Role of engineering geology in construction of infrastructure like buildings, dams, etc. Mass Movements (Landslides & Avalanches), Ground  Water Modeling for Optimum Utilization of available water resources, Artificial ground water recharge techniques in Metro cities, Approaches for appropriate methods for disposal of disastrous garbage's like nuclear waste etc., Numerical Modeling of Hydropower project (Dams) construction on different geological rock formations, Modeling of Tunnel Excavation, Application of GIS and Remote sensing techniques for optimum use of natural resources(minerals, ground and surface water, etc.) in geosciences perspective and Geo-statistical analysis of available natural resources in Indian perspective.

Session 9: Trendy geostatistics
Convener: Jaime Gomez-Hernandez (jgomez@upv.es) Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

Geostatistics has evolved much since its inception as a set of tools for the estimation of mineral reserves. Nowadays, new algorithms are being developed to handle complex curvilinear heterogeneity patterns, non-Gaussian random functions, multivariate problems, or inverse modeling for better understanding of the natural world. This session aims to attract presentations of the trendiest topics of Geostatistics, either as new algorithms or as applications of recently developed ones.

Session 10: Mathematical Geosciences and Planetary Geology
Conveners: Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn (vera.pawlowsky@udg.edu) Universidad de Girona, Spain; Prof. Jesús Martínez Frías Geosciences Institute, Spain.

The application and use of Mathematics in geological research and technology is not only focused on dealing with specific issues of our planet. Study findings in Mathematical Geosciences are also extremely important for the research of meteorites, impact events, and Planetary Geology and exploration (sensu lato), including the characterization of Mars analogs on the Earth. Contributions to this vast field of science are welcome.

Session 11: Multivariate Geostatistics
Convener: Hans Wackernagel (Hans.Wackernagel@mines-paristech.fr) MINES Paris Tech, France.

Session 12: Medical Geology
Convener: Pierre Goovaert (pierre.goovaerts@biomedware.com) University of Florida, USA.

Medical geology is an emerging interdisciplinary scientific field studying the relationship between natural geological factors and their effects on human and animal health. It also aims to improve our understanding of the ways in which the geological environment has an impact on the geographical distribution of health problems. This session welcomes talks on modeling the spatial distribution of geology related health issues, such as the relationship between groundwater arsenic or radon and cancer, or health impact of mining activities.

Session 13: Classical Statistics in the earth sciences
Convener: John Schuenemeuer (jackswsc@q.com) Southwest Statistical Consulting, USA.

The session will be devoted to novel methodologies relevant to the advancement of modeling in the earth sciences by statistical methods exclusive of temporal or spatial information.

Session 14: Compositional Data Analysis and its Applications
Conveners: Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn (vera.pawlowsky@udg.es) University of Girona, Spain; Juan José Egozcue (juan.jose.egozcue@upc.edu) Technical University of Catalonia, Spain.

Compositional data are defined as parts of some whole, like concentrations, molar compositions, and the like. As such, they carry only relative information. New tools for their analysis have been developed in recent years, which open up a new field of research and a new perspective for understanding natural phenomena. This session will emphasize developments in the theory and application of compositional data analysis in the Geosciences.

Session 15: Prediction and characterization of natural disasters
Convener: David Carttar (David.Carttar@rms.com) Risk Management Solutions, USA.

As the earth's human population grows, its interaction with phenomena such as earthquakes, windstorms, floods, and wildfires grows more complex.  This session explores emerging applications of space-time statistics in the modeling of natural hazards, as well as their associated consequences for the built environment.

Session 16: Fractal Modeling
Conveners: Qiuming Cheng (qiuming@yorku.ca) York University, Canada; Frits Agterberg (agterber@NRCan.gc.ca) Geological Survey of Canada, Canada.

Fractals and chaos have become parts of mathematical geoscience during the past 30 years. They help to explain various random components in statistical models that otherwise are mostly deterministic such as those considered in various applications of the general linear model and in kriging. It has become clear that fractals and power-law relations usually are associated with relatively simple laws of self-similarity or scale independence. Multifractal modeling and the theory of self-organized criticality have opened new avenues for further research as well. Many non-linear modeling techniques in our field have been borrowed from physics and chemistry where non-static solutions of equations can result in singularities. These theoretical developments have already resulted in new practical approaches such as singularity mapping in geochemical exploration for new mineral deposits. Mathematical geoscientists are invited to contribute papers on all types of fractal and nonlinear modeling to this session.

Session 17: Multiple point geostatistics
Convener:

Multiple-point geostatistics (MPS) has seen a tremendous growth in both algorithms and applications over the last decade, from reservoir modeling to medical imaging. This session will treat both new algorithmic developments to improve pattern reproduction and computational performance of MPS algorithms, whether based on traditional frameworks or novel approaches such as pattern-based modeling or higher-order cumulants. In addition, papers on novel applications of MPS in the Earth Sciences (e.g. multi-variate MPS, climate modeling, remote sensing, inverse modeling) are specifically targeted.

Session 18: Marine Geology and Oceanography
Conveners: Jan Harff (jan.harff@io-warnemuende.de) University Szczecin, Poland; Jiaxue Wu (jesse-wu@tongji.edu.cn) Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Today, as in ancient times, and even increasingly in the future the societal development depends on the interaction of oceans and continents and changing environments of the coastal zone. This holds for the supply of energy, natural marine resources, threats of disasters, and coastal erosion. Marine geology and oceanography provide the scientific base for an understanding of the natural processes and their driving forces. Mathematical models of these processes allow today numerical simulations, and realistic future scenarios of marine environments in front of the currently changing climate. These scenarios can be used by planning agencies and national and international authorities for the elaboration of strategies to protect, but also to use of our natural marine environment. Geologists, oceanographers, mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers, but also socio-economists are invited to join the session in order to present and to discuss new results in basic marine geosciences, as well as applications in disaster mitigation, coastal protection, exploitation of marine mineral resources and renewable and nonrenewable energy resources. In this sense, the session proposed here will serve as a trans-disciplinary platform to face present and future challenges of populations living along the coasts of the oceans and their marginal seas.

Session 19: Advances in mining assessment
Convener: R. Mohan Srivastava (mosrivastava@benchmarksix.com) Benchmark Six Inc., Canada.

The assessment of the technical and economic viability of mining projects is becoming more challenging as the industry pursues more difficult projects, usually with lower grades and often with metallurgical complications that impinge on process recovery. Adding to the challenge are political, environmental and social factors. This session will include presentations of methods and case study examples of assessments of mineral deposits, such as: resource and reserve estimation; simulation for incorporating risk and uncertainty; production planning and reconciliation. Talks on metals examples are welcome, as are talks focused energy fuels or industrial minerals.

Session 20: Petroleum systems
Convener: Sanjay Srinivasan (ssriniva@mail.utexas.edu), The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
The development of new petroleum resources such as shale gas and liquids, methane hydrates as well as optimized development of existing oil and gas resources in ultra-deepwater and other difficult to access environments require a host of new tools and new workflows. Along with new methods for resource and subsurface characterization, there is also a need to develop new approaches for uncertainty assessment and risk assessment. This session will feature talks on the following topics: Modeling complex reservoirs – fractures, faults etc.; Integrated inversion of seismic attributes in complex reservoir environments; Mulltiscale, multiphysics modeling of fluid flow in reservoirs; Real time assimilation of well and reservoir flow performance data; New methods for assessment of uncertainty in reservoir performance.

Session 21: Digital Rock Geophysics
Convener: Tapan Mukerji (mukerji@stanford.edu) and Nishank Saxena (nishank@stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA.

The fundamental aim of rock physics is to discover, understand and model relations between remotely-sensed geophysical observables and in-situ rock properties. Digital rock physics, using computation and high resolution imaging, has rapidly emerged as a potential source of rock propety relations (elastic, flow, electrical, etc.) and fundamental understanding of pore-scale processes governing these properties. This session invites presentations on all aspects of digital rock physics including: high resolution imaging; 2-d and 3-d visualization, processing and segmentation; quantitative characterization of complex pore morphologies; computation of physical properties and simulation of multi-physics processes on digital rocks.

Session 22: Mathematical Morphology in Geosciences and Geoinformatics
Convener: B. S. Daya Sagar (bsdsagar@isibang.ac.in) Indian Statistical Institute, India.

Mathematical morphology offers numerous original ideas, concepts, transformations, algorithms to deal with studies related to information retrieval, information analysis and reasoning, and spatiotemporal modeling of various phenomena and processes of relevance to geosciences. The topics for this session on "Mathematical morphology in geosciences and geoinformatics' include, but not limited to, Mathematical morphology in shape analysis and characterization; remotely sensed data processing and analysis; random spread modeling; filtering and segmentation; information retrieval, analysis and reasoning; quantitative spatial reasoning; Geographic Information Science (GISci).

Session 23: Remote Sensing and Geo-informatics for natural resources management
Conveners: S. Sreekesh (sreekesh@mail.jnu.ac.in) CSRD, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shakel Romshoo (shakilrom@yahoo.com) University of Kashmir, India.

Remote sensing and geographical information system provide geospatial techniques to assess, monitor, and manage natural resources. The environmental and ecosystem services offered by the natural resources underpin the social and economic well being of the humans on the planet Earth. It is essential to monitor the changes in the status of natural resources and assess the dynamics of changes over space and time. The advancement in the field of remote sensing and GIS in the last few decades has enabled the scientific community to monitor the status and dynamics of the varied natural resources in different ecosystems all over the globe over space and time. Understanding of the historical changes and futuristic projections of the natural resources at various spatial and temporal scales is important to understand many of the land surface processes linked to hydrology, climatology, land degradation and other processes. Modeling in GIS environment using the inputs from remote sensing can help in understanding the patterns of change in natural resources and how human activities are impacting these changes and vice versa. The thematic session is proposed to deliberate on the latest development in application of geo-informatics in natural resource management.

Session 24: Sedimentary Basin Analysis
Conveners: Daniel M. Tetzlaff, (dtetzlaff@slb.com) Schlumberger Information Solutions, USA; Cedric Griffiths (Cedric.Griffiths@csiro.au) CSIRO, Australia.

This session deals with the quantitative analysis, description, and modeling of the processes of erosion, transport, deposition, compaction and diagenesis of sediments as well as with post depositional basin processes such as heat flow, and hydrocarbon maturation and migration. The stratigraphic expression of primary depositional processes and its effect on the subsequent evolution of the basin fill are the main thread of the session. The focus is on quantitative methods and computer models developed by research, academic, and industry (mining and petroleum) groups with both an applied as well pure research goals. Emphasis will be placed on the feedback and interaction mechanisms that can give rise to complexity that cannot be explained by considering each process individually. Though the main subject is sedimentation, the session includes deterministic and statistical mathematical treatments as well as computer science issues that arise in the implementation of sedimentation models, making this session interdisciplinary.

Session 25: Modeling Aquifer Heterogeneities By Means of 3D-Geostatistics
Convener: Maria-Theresia Schafmeister (schaf@uni-greifswald.de) Greifswald University, Germany.

Solute transport strongly depends on aquifer heterogeneities with respect to properties, e.g. permeability or sorptive parameters. The major goals of this session are (i) to introduce geostatistical tools which are able to reproduce the heterogeneity of aquifers in 3d-space and (ii) to present first results, which represent 'analogues' of relevant aquifers word-wide.

Session 26: Observed changes in Himalayan Cryosphere
Conveners: AL Ramanathan (alrjnu@gmail.com) Jawaharlal Nehru University; Anil Kulkarni (anilkulkarni@caos.iisc.ernet.in) Indian Institute of Sciences, India.

The Himalayan Crosypshere region is too large and it is difficult to consider them as a single climatic region. Large climatic gradients occur from Eastern Himalaya to the western Karakoram over 2000 km of its length. In Eastern and central Himalayan glaciers were strongly affected by the monsoon precipitation as snow at high elevation. Further the Himalayan glaciers are surrounded by densely populated countries that are strongly dependent on water originating in the Himalayas. Climate change may cause considerable changes of water availability in river systems. However, the importance of meltwater from snow and ice to the total basin runoff varies. There is a lot of contradictory information published about the state and fate of the Himalayan glaciers. A proper understanding of the processes affecting them, combined with the diversity of climatic conditions and the extremes of topographical relief within the region etc will be addressed in the Session which help us to understand the changing dynamic in Himalayan cryopshere in the recent past.

Session 27:Computer Application in Earth Sciences
Conveners: Gang Liu (liugang67@163.com) China University of Geoscience, China and A.P. Dimri (apdimri@hotmail.com) Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

This session will provide a forum for the presentation of recent advances in computer applications in earth sciences. Contributions to theory, method, solution and practice for geoscience information science and technology are welcomed. The related topics include but not limited: 3D/4D modeling, spatial/temporal data model and management, 3D geological survey, 3D spatial analysis, reservoir modeling and simulation, intelligent computation application in Earth sciences, application of the Internet of Things, system integration with multi-source data, high performance computing in Earth sciences, cloud computing and web applications, big data management and data mining for Earth sciences, spatial information infrastructure, strategy and solution for "Glass Earth", intelligent mine, intelligent city, intelligent Earth.

Session 28: Spatiotemporal Modeling
Convener: Alexander Kolovos (alexander.kolovos@spacetimeworks.com) Space Time Works, USA

In recent years, spatiotemporal modelling has established a central role in data analysis in mathematical geosciences. Its importance follows an ascending trend in the wake of an increasing abundance of monitored space-time-referenced data, in addition to technological progress that enables their more accurate and faster processing. The current session presents scientific advances and challenges in space-time modelling for the characterization of natural attributes. Spatiotemporal modelling links the analysis of this information to specific study goals, and aims to explain the behavior of natural systems by utilizing prediction, simulation, and visualization techniques. This session focuses on the basic research level of conceptual and scientific challenges in spatiotemporal modelling, where the spotlight is on advanced notions, methodologies and techniques for space-time data analysis. The session conjures a versatile panel of such experts to present a broad collection of topics from environmental, geostatistical and health perspectives, and investigates in further depth contemporary challenges, strategies and directions in spatiotemporal modeling.

Session 29: Agriculture, Environment & Ecosystems
Convener: Sudip Mitra (sudipmitra@yahoo.com) Tezpur University, India.

Today, attaining food security is a major challenge to the most of the developing countries. Meeting this challenge is most likely to lead to marked conversion of forest and rangeland ecosystems. Increasing demand of water to sustain the required production is another challenge that this world is facing today and which could lead to over extraction of water and thus increases the impacts of natural disasters and the resultant loss of biodiversity. Intensification and diversification of agriculture can't be avoided at present context, but the absence of clear understanding of its impacts on the environment could lead to both immediate and long-term consequences that directly impact the livelihoods of the poor. Climate change will only multiply these impacts. Experts argue that mainstreaming ecosystem management approach into national agricultural and economic development plans is critically important to address the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the face of climate change.

Session 30: New Frontiers of Mathematical Geology for Resources Exploration
Conveners: Katsuaki Koike (koike.katsuaki.5x@kyoto-u.ac.jp) Kyoto University, Japan; Ryoichi Kouda (roy.kouda@aist.go.jp) Geological Survey of Japan, AIST.

For the sustainable world, developments of new technologies of resources exploration are of the uppermost importance. This session aims at combining state-of-the-art theories and technologies of mathematical geology, geoinformatics, GIS, economic geology, geophysics, and geochemistry for exploring and assessing renewable and nonrenewable resources. The topics contains: Advanced data-analysis and GIS methods for exploring and assessing renewable and on renewable resources; Advanced geostatistics for ore grade mapping and for characterizing petroleum, coal, geothermal, natural gas, and methane hydrate reservoirs; Hyper-spectral remote sensing for detecting mineral manifestations; New technologies and data analyses for geophysical and geochemical prospecting; Highly precise ethods for modeling geologic structures; New paradigms for resource assessment, risk analysis and exploration strategies; Reconsideration of genetic mechanisms of ore deposits; and Advanced hydrological analysis of ground and surface water management and monitoring.

Session 31 : Advances on Stochastic Non Linear Methods and Inverse Problems for Dynamic Models
Convener: J A Vargas-Guzmán (vargasja@aramco.com), Saudi Aramco, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Geosciences, hydrology and petroleum science are putting strong emphasis on dynamic modeling of nonlinear stochastic processes. The fundamental inputs to such endeavors are skewed distributed parameters; which require inverse solutions that integrate parameter fields from nonlinear geostatistics with numerical solutions of stochastic differential equations. This session offers a venue to discuss practical modeling of nonlinear stochastic fields in a multidisciplinary framework, as required for practical applications.