Tuesday 14th April 2026

Session: WK1 - "Workshop 1 - Unassigned"

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Session: WK2 - "Workshop 2 - Group Project"
Moderated by: Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

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Wednesday 15th April 2026

Session: K1 - "Keynote Day 1"
Moderated by: Ross Davidson, Rock Imaging
• 09:00-09:30 Flow in Porous Media in the Energy Transition. by Martin Blunt, Imperial College London
  

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Session: P1 - "Posters Day 1"

• CoreSpecViewer: An open-source desktop application for hyperspectral drill-core processing, visualisation, and analysis by Russell Rogers, Geological Survey Ireland
  
• The vexing variable vesicles of low viscosity explosive volcanism: what makes mafic magma explode? by Corin Jorgenson, University of Strathclyde
  
• SmartRocks™: Complete DRA workflows available in the cloud by Vegar Ravlo, Petricore
  
• Unsupervised textural clustering of drill core imagery at the Nautanen North IOCG deposit to support geometallurgical studies by Francisco Cuadra , University of Tasmania
  
• Visualising Evaporation-Driven Salt Precipitation in CT-Derived Pore Networks During CO₂ Injection by Yuxi Liang, Imperial College London
  
• XCT analysis of critical raw material potential in abandoned Pb-Zn mining waste from the Leadhills-Wanlockhead Orefield, South Scotland. by Andie Bryce, University of Strathclyde and British Geological Survey
  
• Pore-Scale hydro-mechanical damage evolution of reservoir sandstones during subsurface energy storage: insights from in-situ X-ray CT by Bengang Chen, The University of Manchester
  

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Session: 1 - "Applications of Micro-CT Imaging"

• 09:30-10:00 Understanding dynamic processing during hydrometallurgy using time-resolved spectral micro-CT imaging. by Wesley De Boever, Tescan
  
• 10:00-10:30 MicroCT-Based Assessment of Formation Damage in Reservoir Rocks: A Three-Dimensional Evaluation of Pore Structure Alterations by Jhonatan Jair Arismendi Florez, University of São Paulo
  

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Session: 2 - "Correlative Characterisation"

• 11:00-11:30 Correlative Characterisation of Trace Elements in the Cloudy Zone of the Imilac Meteorite by Emily Wackan, University of Glasgow
  
• 11:30-12:00 What Is a Digital Twin in Deep Time? Twinning Planetary Processes Through High‑Resolution Correlative Microanalysis by Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
  

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Session: 3 - "Image Segmentation"
Moderated by: Wesley De Boever, Tescan
• 13:00-13:30 3D SAM-Mamba: A New Perspective for Generalized Segmentation of Multiphase Flow Micro-CT Images by Rui Zhang, Imperial College London
  
• 13:30-14:00 The Segmentation Bottleneck: Benchmarking Deep Learning vs. Traditional Segmentation for 3D Data by Daniel Bribiesca Sykes, University of Glasgow
  
• 14:00-14:30 A machine learning method to automatically segment solid and multiple fluid phases in time-dependent 3D (4D) images by Zhuangzhuang Ma, Imperial College London
  

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Session: WK3 - "Workshop 3 - Group Project"
Moderated by: Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

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Thursday 16th April 2026

Session: K2 - "Keynote Day 2"
Moderated by: Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
• 09:00-09:30 IM3AGES – a new imaging Facility for the geoscience community by Kate Dobson, University of Strathclyde
  

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Session: P2 - "Posters Day 2"

• CoreSpecViewer: An open-source desktop application for hyperspectral drill-core processing, visualisation, and analysis by Russell Rogers, Geological Survey Ireland
  
• The vexing variable vesicles of low viscosity explosive volcanism: what makes mafic magma explode? by Corin Jorgenson, University of Strathclyde
  
• SmartRocks™: Complete DRA workflows available in the cloud by Vegar Ravlo, Petricore
  
• Unsupervised textural clustering of drill core imagery at the Nautanen North IOCG deposit to support geometallurgical studies by Francisco Cuadra , University of Tasmania
  
• Visualising Evaporation-Driven Salt Precipitation in CT-Derived Pore Networks During CO₂ Injection by Yuxi Liang, Imperial College London
  
• XCT analysis of critical raw material potential in abandoned Pb-Zn mining waste from the Leadhills-Wanlockhead Orefield, South Scotland. by Andie Bryce, University of Strathclyde and British Geological Survey
  
• Pore-Scale hydro-mechanical damage evolution of reservoir sandstones during subsurface energy storage: insights from in-situ X-ray CT by Bengang Chen, The University of Manchester
  

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Session: 4 - "Sample Analysis"
Moderated by: Wesley De Boever, Tescan
• 09:30-10:00 AI Regression Model for Soil Core Image Analysis by Joanne Boulos, Lyon University (INSA)
  
• 10:00-10:30 High-Resolution SEM & Maps Min Automated Mineralogy for Emerging Geo-Energy Systems: From Natural Hydrogen to Geothermal Reservoirs and Carbon Mineralization by Salomé Larmier, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  

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Session: 5 - "CO2 Storage Studies"

• 11:00-11:30 Pore-scale Imaging of CO2-Brine Relative Permeability Reduction and Hysteresis in a Reservoir Carbonate by Rukuan CHAI, Imperial College London
  
• 11:30-12:00 Multi-scale Numerical Simulation of the CO2 and Brine Migration Behavior In Reservoir Conditions by Meiheriayi Mutailipu, Xinjiang University
  

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Session: 6 - "Digital Rock Analysis"
Moderated by: Ross Davidson, Rock Imaging
• 13:00-13:30 Rock surface imaging for wettability studies: micro-XRF as a non-destructive alternative to SEM/MLA workflows by Jhonatan Jair Arismendi Florez, University of São Paulo
  
• 13:30-14:00 Digital Rock Analysis: Obtaining SCAL properties from complex rocks by applying a multi-scale pore network modeling approach by Vegar Ravlo, Petricore
  
• 14:00-14:30 "SPEAKER WITHDRAWN"

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Session: WK4 - "Workshop 4 - Group Project"
Moderated by: Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

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Friday 17th April 2026

Session: K3 - "Keynote Day 3"

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Session: P3 - "Posters Day 3"

• CoreSpecViewer: An open-source desktop application for hyperspectral drill-core processing, visualisation, and analysis by Russell Rogers, Geological Survey Ireland
  
• The vexing variable vesicles of low viscosity explosive volcanism: what makes mafic magma explode? by Corin Jorgenson, University of Strathclyde
  
• SmartRocks™: Complete DRA workflows available in the cloud by Vegar Ravlo, Petricore
  
• Unsupervised textural clustering of drill core imagery at the Nautanen North IOCG deposit to support geometallurgical studies by Francisco Cuadra , University of Tasmania
  
• Visualising Evaporation-Driven Salt Precipitation in CT-Derived Pore Networks During CO₂ Injection by Yuxi Liang, Imperial College London
  
• XCT analysis of critical raw material potential in abandoned Pb-Zn mining waste from the Leadhills-Wanlockhead Orefield, South Scotland. by Andie Bryce, University of Strathclyde and British Geological Survey
  
• Pore-Scale hydro-mechanical damage evolution of reservoir sandstones during subsurface energy storage: insights from in-situ X-ray CT by Bengang Chen, The University of Manchester
  

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Session: 7 - "Image-Driven Sample Analysis"

• 09:30-10:00 Cone-structures in PGE Ore: Fossilised Remains of Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities? by Matt Divers, University of Manchester (NXCT)
  
• 10:00-10:30 Unlocking a Century of Subsurface Intelligence: Digital Transformation of Malaysia’s Drill Cuttings Archive by Richard Hewitt, Geolog and Guy Oliver, Geolog
  

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Session: WK5 - "Workshop 5 - Group Project"
Moderated by: Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

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Session: 8 - "Awards & Closing Remarks"
Moderated by: Alan Butcher, Hafren

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