Non-Student Awards

Best Oral Presentations

The Impact of 3D Sampling on McMurray Formation Imaging
Andrea Crook, Anita Knudsen, Michelle Montano, Mostafa Naghizadeh, Michael Hons

Increasing Longevity and Supply through Geothermal Wellbore Maintenance: A Lakeview, Oregon Case Study
Rochelle Longval, Jason Fisher, Nicholas Fry, Daniel McCall, Scott Langum

Mapping geologic hydrogen resource prospectivity
Geoffrey Ellis

Passive seismic monitoring empowered by AI
Ben Witten, Aaron Booterbaugh, Evgeny Naumov, Sepi Karimi

Best Oral Presentations – Honorable Mention

The Cost of Doing Business in Seismic Acquisition
Warren Cookson

Two decades of research on injection-induced seismicity: What have we learned?
David Eaton

Geologic Map, Well and Seismic database Developments for Structural Assessment of the Cordilleran Foreland Belt
Mark Cooper, Peter Fermor, Karen Fallas, Corey Hooge, Marian Warren

Improved microseismic event detection with CATS: A case study of the QUEST CO2 storage facility, Alberta.
Wardah Fadil, Serafim Grubas, Mirko van der Baan

Bakken OHML Case Study – a low permeability success story
Barrie Furlong

Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and ichnology of the middle Cambrian to Lower Ordovician deposits in subsurface Western Canada
Andrei Ichaso Demianiuk, Luis Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano

Exploring the depths of South America
Tim Truax, Sorrel Holmes

Best Posters

What can isotope geochemistry of shale gas teach us about hydrogen systems?
Jaime Cesar, Andrew Kingston, Ryan Staub, Nathan Scott

Radiogenic heat production (RHP) over an area in SE Alberta calculated from radioactive elements 238U, 232Th and 40K detected by airborne gamma-ray spectrometry survey
Phil Harms, Hassan H. Hassan

Thermochemical Sulfate Reduction Modeling and Its influence on H2S concentrations and Porosity of Carbonate Reservoirs
Wei Wei, Peng Lu, Pan Luo

Best Posters – Honorable Mention

Hydrogen UnderGround (HUG)
Timo Hietava, Taina Karvonen, Jonna Poikolainen

Student Awards

Best Student Oral Presentations

Applications in Utilizing Soil Gas Geochemistry to Calibrate Helium Exploration Models on the Four Corners Platform, USA
Daniel Halford, Mark Andreason, Bill Cathey, Michael Cathey, Gary Rice

Unlocking the Potential of Gas Isotope Geochemistry: Exploring its Applications to the Unconventional Duvernay Fm. of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
Gabriela Gonzalez Arismendi, Karlis Muehlenbachs

Best Student Oral Presentations – Honorable Mention

Impact of Thermal Maturity of Shale on Well Production Performance – A Physical Simulation of Primary Production Stage in the Duvernay
Amin Alinejad, Hassan Dehghanpour

Challenges of 5D interpolation on GPUs using the non-uniform Discrete Foruier Transform
Kai Zhuang, Daniel Trad

Targeted nullspace shuttles of time-lapse full waveform inversion with application to CO2 plume monitoring
Kimberly Pike, Kristopher Innanen, Scott Keating

Denoising of earthquake signals with CATS
Serafim Grubas, Mirko van der Baan

Best Student Posters

Analysis of the Relationship between Hydraulic Fracture Pressure Curve Patterns and Facies of the Montney Formation
Nicole Virginillo, Per Pedersen

Enhancing Geological Model Development through Machine Learning Integration in Mapping Workflows: A Case Study of the Bendigo Zone, Victoria, Australia
Limin Xu, Eleanor Green

Best Student Posters – Honorable Mention

Mesozoic rift-related exhumation along the Newfoundland margin recorded by low-temperature thermochronology
Emily Johns-Buss, Luke Beranek, Eva Enkelmann

Assessing the Potential of Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns -A Lotsberg Case Study
Davood Zivar, Lin Yuan, Hassan Dehghanpour

Congratulations to all of our award winners for their work in preparing the best of GeoConvention 2024!

Award winners were selected by the general convention audience through in-person and virtual delivery voting and reviewed by the GeoConvention judging committee and General/Technical Chairs.

Out of over 300 total presentations, these are the best in show!