Unbenannt

28th General Assembly 2023 in Berlin, Germany

At the 28th IUGG General Assembly, the IHFC organized:

  • a symposium
  • the heatflow.summerschool
  • workshops on heat flow in Africa, South America and the Southern Atlantic Ocean
  • workshop on heat flow in Antarctia
  • IHFC business meeting

Symposium

JS08 Advances in Heat Flow Studies: From Fundamental Geodynamic Understanding to Geothermal Energy Applications (IASPEI, IAVCEI (IHFC))

Conveners: Ben Norden (Germany, IAVCEI), Ivone Jimenez Munt (Spain, IASPEI), Sukanta Roy (India, IASPEI)

Description Until the 1950s, terrestrial heat flow was only documented in a few specific areas of the globe. Due to the importance of heat flow determinations in characterizing the Earth’s energy budget, geodynamic processes, and its role in geothermal energy exploration, the need for extensive heat-flow measurements and mapping became clear. Since 1963, the International Heat Flow Commission of IASPEI has been advising on the acquisition of heat-flow data through temperature-depth measurements and thermal properties of rocks in a variety of geologic environments and tectonic regimes. This effort has led to significant advances in heat flow studies that have positively influenced many disciplines, e.g. seismology, magnetism, volcanology, geodynamics, and hydrogeology. It is now widely recognized that understanding the mechanisms of heat transfer in continental and oceanic regions is crucial for better appreciation of the thermal structure of the lithosphere. For example, the depth distribution of earthquakes can be related to the brittle-ductile boundary which is thermally controlled. In polar regions heat flow can exert a key influence on ice-sheet temperature, ice rheology, basal melting, and the consequent mechanical decoupling at the ice-bedrock interface. Other contemporary topics that thermal studies address include climate change, permafrost thawing, and mineral resource evaluation. This symposium marks the 60th anniversary of the International Heat Flow Commission with the goal of highlighting the accomplishments of heat-flow studies, as well as the technological advances in borehole and rock thermo-physical measurements, and their relationship to a wide range of geodynamic processes related to the thermal state. We welcome contributions that describe the results of experimental and theoretical works of any geoscientific discipline and the symposium is designed to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, methods, and concepts centered on the thermal aspects of the Earth’s interior.

Monday, 17 Jul 2023, 09:45 - 10:00

  • Rolandone et al.: IUGG23-0737: New heat flow measurements in the Alboran Sea, westernmost Mediterranean Sea
  • Duque: IUGG23-3382: Heat flow density measurements in offshore continental crust
  • Zhu & Liu: IUGG23-0334: Heat flow and thermal structure of the South China Sea
  • Neumann et al.: IUGG23-0438: Heat flow and thermal regime in the Guaymas basin, gulf of California: Estimates of conductive and advective heat transport
  • Negrete-Aranda et al.: IUGG23-0622: Heat transport by hydrothermal circulation in a young rift: Observations from vent fields in the Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California
  • Guimaraes et al.: IUGG23-0996: Heat flow measurements and multiphysical integration studies in Campos basin, southeast Brazil

Monday, 17 Jul 2023, 10:30 - 12:00

  • Scheck-Wenderoth et al.: IUGG23-2747: Deep thermal structure in different plate tectonic settings
  • Furlong et al.: IUGG23-2493: Heat Flow Constraints on Crustal Deformation and Earthquake Activity at the Mendocino Triple Junction, Northern San Andreas Plate Boundary USA
  • Tanaka: IUGG23-2865: Lithospheric thermal constraints from thermal data and indirect proxies
  • Jiménez-Munt et al.: IUGG23-5025: Modeling the Iberian thermal lithosphere. Geodynamic implications and perspectives on deep geothermal studies
  • Wang et al.: IUGG23-0052: Heat flow, thermal structural and its tectonic implication of the south-central section of the Tan Lu Fault Zone
  • Ferraccioli et al.: IUGG23-4213: Upscaling knoweldge of Antarctic subglacial geothermal heat flux heterogeneity from continental to regional scale

Monday, 17 Jul 2023, 13:30 - 13:45

  • Pascal: IUGG23-2012: Heat flow determination in the ICDP COSC-1 borehole and geodynamical implications
  • Ray et al.; IUGG23-1098: Heat flow, heat production, and crustal thermal modeling of the Singhbhum Craton, eastern India
  • Sabatini et al.: IUGG23-2569: Mapping the thermophysical properties of Apennines rocks: Implications for the temperature state of the crust
  • Nunn et al.: IUGG23-2064: Multi-well Horner Correction to Bottom Hole Temperatures in depleted oil and gas fields
  • Słomski et al. IUGG23-1889: Petrophysical measurements and geophysical data integration for the geothermal potential evaluation of SW Poland.
  • Safanda et al.: IUGG23-1561: Signature of climate changes in subsurface temperatures. A case study from Northern Bohemia, Czechia

Monday, 17 Jul 2023, 15:30 - 17:00

  • Spohn: IUGG23-0713: The Surface Heat Flow of Mars – and an attempt to measure it in-situ
  • Saxobidinov & Sidorova: IUGG23-0118: Investigations of potentially promising areas for the development of Renewable Geothermal Energy in Uzbekistan
  • Maystrenko et al.: IUGG23-3807: Deep geothermal potential of Norway based on borehole data
  • Chambers et al: IUGG23-2878: Mapping Ireland’s subsurface temperature: De-risking Ireland’s Geothermal energy potential (DIG)
  • Norden et al: IUGG23-3313: The Global Heat Flow Database: New quality scheme and data release 2023

IHFC Heat Flow Summer 2023

The first edition of the Heat Flow Summer was held in Potsdam in July 2023. The topic was focused on heat flow determination and interpretation. The summer school was partly funded by the IUGG, Project Inner Space, DFG (German Science Foundation) and ILP (International Lithospheric Program) Task Force VI and organized by the GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences). The summer school was planned to provide comprehensive training on heat-flow determination and evaluation to early-career scientists and young researchers. It also encouraged students to focus on this topic in their future careers. The Summer school was successfully attended by 24 students from Europe, Asia, and America. The students were selected among 40 applicants from 30 countries. Graeme Beardsmore (University of Melbourne), Juan Contreras and Raquel Negrete-Aranda (CICESE, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education), Massimo Verdoya (University of Genova), Florian Neumann and Ben Norden (GFZ-Potsdam) lectured. The summer school was followed by a two-day workshop on the heat flow in Antarctica (July 08–09) and a two-day workshop on the heat flow in Africa, South- and Central America (July 10–11).

IHFC Business Meeting

During the 28th General Assembly of the IUGG in Berlin an IHFC (International Heat Flow Commission) business meeting was held on July 17, 2023. See the minutes here.

Group photo of the new members of the International Heat Flow Commission after the election on 17th of July 2023. The new chairwoman Raquel Negrete-Aranda (Cicese, Mexiko) in first row, second person from left. (Photo: Ronald Spelz)