Previewing the International Exposition and 83rd Annual Meeting

Abstract

SEG's International Exposition and 83rd Annual Meeting, which will be held on 22–27 September at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, is positioned to be the most successful of the 21st century in several important areas. The Technical Program will include the most presentations ever. In 2012, SEG received an unexpectedly large 1500 submissions for the Technical Program, several hundred more than usual. Consequently, many quality papers had to be rejected due to insufficient space. As a result, extra presentation rooms were added this year and that adjustment proved prescient as 1415 abstracts were submitted (the second highest total ever). Nearly 1000 will be offered in Houston as traditional oral (624 papers) or poster presentations (176), or as one of the 192 ePosters (a successful innovation at last year's convention and likely here to stay). The Technical Program will include five special sessions on topics of great current interest in the geophysical community: Arctic Exploration Challenges, Environmental Challenges in Unconventional Resources Development, Hydrogeophysics, Recent Advances and the Road Ahead, and Africa.