2023 Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting

 The Rocky Mountain Section of AAPG is seeking oral presentations and posters for its 2023 annual meeting. The theme is “Energy & Plains Solutions” and will cover a wide range of topics related to geologic energy resources, including (but not limited to):

• Petroleum Geology in the Rocky Mountain Region

Williston, Denver-Julesburg, Powder River, San Juan, Piceance-Uinta, Green River, Wind River, Bighorn, Paradox, Washakie Basins, Midland & Delaware Basins

• Carbon Capture, Usage, & Storage (CCUS)

• Critical Minerals Resources

Critical Minerals Exploration, Lithium Resources, Uranium & Thorium, Rare Earth Elements (REEs)

• Data Analytics (machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.)

• Geothermal Resources

Hot-deep geothermal, Engineered Geothermal Systems, Subsurface hydrothermal, Closed-loop heat exchangers

• Economic Geology & Resource Assessments

• Surficial & Engineering Geology

• Environmental Geology & Hydrology

• Geochemistry & Mineralogy

• Hydrogen Resources & Energy Storage

• Oilfield & Environmental Technology

• Paleontology

• Research core displays (standalone or with posters)*

• Source Rocks

Thermal maturation, organic matter source, analytical methods

• Stratigraphy & Sedimentology

• Structural Geology & Tectonics

• Technological & Analytical Tools

Seismic, well logging, rock analytics, integration

*Contact Technical chair with core display ideas (funding for core shipment may be available – contact General Chair for details)

All submissions must include the following:

• Title; authors, affiliations & email addresses; abstract text

• Text limit: 3000 characters (including spaces), no figures or references

• Provide keywords or identify a theme/topic appropriate for

   your abstract

• Optional: Propose a session for your abstract

Abstracts that do not meet the above criteria will not be considered for inclusion in the technical program.

Policies

Presenting authors can withdraw their presentation by writing to the Technical Program Co-Chairs no later than four weeks prior to the meeting if the presenter is unable to attend and no co-author or alternate presenter is available. Presenting authors that withdraw or are a No-Show after this deadline will be placed on the No-Show List unless excused by the Technical Program Co-Chairs. Presenters with accepted abstracts who cannot attend the meeting due to an emergency or other issue should contact the meeting organizers as soon as possible and are strongly encouraged to find a substitute presenter. No-Show presenters who are not excused will be barred from submitting abstracts to RMS-AAPG meetings for 2 years.

If you have any questions about meeting policies, please contact us at: rmsaapg2023@gmail.com 

Commercialism

The goal of the RMS-AAPG meeting is to provide high quality, technical presentations free from excessive commercialism. Presentations that constitute mainly promotion or advertising will not be eligible for inclusion in the technical program but may be presented in an alternative forum associated with the meeting Exhibition (TBD). Please contact us at the email address above for details.