AGU Session: NS004 - Advances in Understanding the Subsurface Through Scientific Drilling

[Cochran, Elizabeth S]

2026 AGU Annual Meeting Session Announcement: NS004 - Advances in Understanding the Subsurface Through Scientific Drilling

Does your research involve any type of data or analysis resulting from scientific drilling/coring or are you a planning future scientific drilling campaign? If so, we welcome your abstract submission to our AGU Session: NS004 - Advances in Understanding the Subsurface Through Scientific Drilling. Abstracts are due Aug. 5. 

 

NS004 Session description: 

Scientific drilling provides access to study in-situ conditions of the subsurface, deployment sites for at-depth instrumentation, and key geologic, geochemical, geobiological, and paleontological/palynological records. Recent and ongoing drilling projects have targeted active fault zones and geothermal systems, and long-term borehole observatories provide insight into local and regional seismic activity and stress states. We welcome research from a broad range of scientific drilling-related studies including fault zone dynamics and tectonic/basin histories, geothermal and fluid migration, borehole geophysical observations (passive and active seismic, distributed acoustic/thermal/strain sensing), lithostratigraphic studies, and mechanical/hydrologic properties of borehole samples, from active projects such as the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), projects leveraging legacy data from past drilling efforts, as well as projects in the planning phases. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions exploring how petrophysical properties, stress distribution and conditions at depth (temperature, fluid pressures and chemistries), and fault zone materials influence one another.

*Our session is listed in Near Surface Geophysics (NS) and co-organized with Seismology, so it can count in either section towards your abstract limit while leaving the other section open. You'll find the session listed in both sections when you click "View Sessions/Submit an Abstract" and browse by section. 

This is the second year for this session. Last year, we received enough submissions to support an oral session and a poster session, and we're hoping to grow bigger this year! Note that session formats are not assigned until after the abstract deadline, and we may end up with any combination of oral, GeoBurst, and/or poster sessions. We look forward to your abstract submissions. Please reach out with any questions about our session to ChrisCarr: cgc...@lanl.gov.

Session Conveners: 

Chris Carr  - Los Alamos National Laboratory 

Brett M. Carpenter - University of Oklahoma 

Elizabeth Cochran - U.S. Geological Survey 

Will Kibikas - Sandia National Laboratories 

Emma Calvert - Oregon State University