LinksJournalsProfessional Societies Universities AGU Mineral and Rock Physics Focus Group Rock Physics at the U.S. Geological Survey Scattering and Heterogeneity in the Earth Poronet - PoroMechanics Internet Resources iMechanica - Web of Mechanics and Mechanicians Free Online MIT Course Materials in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Meetings of the Rock Physics Special Interest Group of the Geophysical Society of Houston Houston Geomechanics Discussion Group SPWLA - Logging Mnemonics Physics news from PhysOrg.com Earth science news from PhysOrg.com Nature Physics Insight Mont Terri Project - International Research Project for the Characterisation of the Opalinus Clay | IntroductionRock Physics provides the connections between elastic properties measured at the surface of the earth, within the borehole environment or in the laboratory with the intrinsic properties of rocks, such as mineralogy, porosity, pore shapes, pore fluids, pore pressures, permeability, viscosity, stresses and overall architecture such as laminations and fractures. Rock Physics provides the understanding and theoretical tools required to optimize all imaging and characterization solutions based on elastic data.The present site is a collection of resources for rock physicists and those who use the results of rock physics in their work. Rock Physics NewsThe 2nd International Workshop on Rock Physics (2IWRP) will take place in Southampton, U.K., August 4-9, 2013. Abstract submission deadline is 15 April 2013. Selected papers from 1IWRP have been published in a special issue of Geophysical Prospecting on Rock Physics for Reservoir Exploration, Characterisation and Monitoring The March 2013 meeting of the Rock Physics Special Interest Group of the Geophysical Society of Houston on Wednesday 6 March 2013 featured a talk by Leon Thomsen "On the Fluid Dependence of the Parameters of Anisotropy". Abstract is available here. The January 2013 meeting of the Rock Physics Special Interest Group of the Geophysical Society of Houston on Tuesday 15 January 2013 featured a talk by Michael A. Payne on "Reflections on Rock Physics Modeling and Fluid/Solid Substitution". Abstract is available here. A post-convention workshop on the "Physics of Rocks" took place following the 2012 SEG Annual Meeting - see http://www.seg.org/web/annual-meeting-2012/technical-program/friday for details. Additional information is available here. The abstracts from the 15th International Workshop on Seismic Anisotropy are available here. The list of presentations made at the 3rd EAGE Shale Workshop is available here. The 1st International Workshop on Rock Physics (1IWRP) took place at the Colorado School of Mines, August 7-12, 2011. See the technical agenda for the list of presentations. Many of the abstracts and several of the presentations and posters are available here. Evan Bianco's notes from the workshop can be found by clicking on the following links:
| MeetingsMeeting of the Rock Physics Special Interest Group of the Geophysical Society of Houston "On the Fluid Dependence of the Parameters of Anisotropy" by Leon Thomsen, Houston, 6 March 2013. AAPG 2013 Annual Convention & Exhibition, 19 - 22 May 2013, Pittsburgh, USA. 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition, 10 - 13 June 2013, London, UK. SPWLA 54th Annual Symposium, 22 - 26 June 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 2nd International Workshop on Rock Physics (2IWRP), 4 - 9 August 2013, Southampton, UK. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 12 - 14 August 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA. SEG International Exhibition and 82nd Annual Meeting, 22 - 27 September 2013, Houston, Texas, USA. 2013 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 30 September - 2 October 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. SPWLA Seismic Petrophysics Workshop, 28 - 30 October 2013, Taos, New Mexico, USA. Second EAGE Workshop on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, 8 - 11 December 2013, Muscat, Oman. Second EAGE Workshop on Rock Physics & Quantitative Geophysics, 12 - 15 January 2014, Muscat, Oman. 4th EAGE Shale Workshop, 9 - 12 March 2014, Portugal. |