24hrs Global Heat Flow Day
The 24-hour Global Heat Flow Day is an annual event organized by the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) to support the scientific exchange between geoscientists with an particular focus on heat flow research. This event features a continuous 24-hour virtual live support session, enabling participants worldwide to engage in discussions, learn about the latest heat flow developments, new development in heat flow data, and receive guidance on converting their heat flow research data to meet the requirements of the Global Heat Flow Database. The initiative fosters a collaborative environment, aiming to enhance the quality and reliability of heat flow data essential for geoscientific research.
The inaugural Global Heat Flow Day took place on February 22, 2022, followed by subsequent annual events. The initial 3 events focussed on the global assessment process and the revision of the Global Heat Flow Database by offering an exchange format about the new IHFC data strucutre and the quality scheme. The upcoming 4th Global Heat Flow Day is scheduled for February 25, 2025. This year, the event evolves to address current needs within the heat flow community. For instance, the 2025 event is set to adopt an open presentation and webinar format, encouraging participants to deliver 15- to 30-minute presentations on various heat-flow-related topics, such as measurement techniques, data analysis, modeling approaches, and insights into ongoing research projects.
A significant aspect of the Global Heat Flow Day is its role in the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project. This project aims to provide a quality-controlled, authenticated global database of heat flow values and related thermal data. By engaging the global geoscientific community through events like the Global Heat Flow Day, the IHFC promotes collaborative efforts to scrutinize, reassess, and update each data entry compiled since 1939. Contributors to this project are acknowledged as co-authors in the subsequent database releases, with the next update planned for summer 2025.
The IHFC encourages widespread participation in the Global Heat Flow Day, emphasizing that collective efforts can significantly enhance the global heat flow database, benefiting geoscientists worldwide who rely on high-quality research data. For more information and to get involved, interested individuals can contact us.
4th 24hrs Global Heat Flow Day 2025
Presenters team:
- Graeme Beardsmore (1 am GMT) - Thermal conductivity measurement techniques
- Tobias Staal (5 am GMT) - Subglacial heat and ice sheet stability
- Shaopeng Huang (7 am GMT) - AI assisted heat-flow study
- Gianluca Gola (noon) - Heat-flow data in Italy: data review and new determinations
- Sven Fuchs (2 pm GMT) - The IHFC heat flow fellowships: purpose procedures possibilities
- Will Gosnold (4 pm GMT) - Heat flow from uncorrected bottom-hole temperatures
- Elif Balkan-Pazvantoğlu (6 pm GMT) - Temperature measurements techniques; TC measurements techniques
- Rob Harris, (Negrete, Poort, Neumann) (8 pm GMT) - Marine probe heat-flow measurements anno 2025
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