The International Rock Imaging Summit - 2025
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Both Panel Sessions from iRIS-2025 are OPEN ACCESS and so are freely available to view for all RISIG members.
Tuesday 8th April 2025
Session: K1 - "Keynote Day 1"
Moderated by: Alan Butcher, Hafren-
Imaging Void Space: Experiences in Crystalline Reservoirs and Geoenergy Applications by Alan Bischoff, GTK and University of Turku
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Session: 1 - "Mineral Exploration"
Moderated by: Wesley De Boever, Tescan-
Parallel Machine Learning Workflow for High-Resolution Mineral Mapping and Critical Material Identification: Lisheen Ore Case Study by Francesco Perrone, University of Glasgow
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Imaging rocks for best-practice mineral exploration - what are the industry needs? by Nick Cook, University of Queensland
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Session: 2 - "Digital Rock Analysis" 
Moderated by: Martin Blunt, Imperial College
Sponsored by Core Laboratories-
Core Predict - An AI Tool to Obtain Petrophysical and Geological Analog Data by Alan Swanson, Core Lab
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Multiscale Pore Network Modelling of Multiphase Flow in Complex Microporous Media. by Sajjad Foroughi, Imperial College London
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Digital Rocks Enable Porosity and Flow Anisotropy Analyses: Mega-Porous Reservoir Study by Ivan Deshenenkov, Saudi Aramco
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Session: 3 - "Mineralogy and Geochemistry"
Moderated by: Cindy Broderick, Natural History Museum London -
X-ray Mapping of Volcanic Groundmass Glass: New Insights into Zircon Crystallisation from Volcanic Rocks by Alejandro Cortes-Calderon, Natural History Museum
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Quantifying complex trace element mineral maps by combining automated mineralogy and LA-ICP-MS by Yannick Buret, Natural History Museum London
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Automated Mineralogy with Li-bearing Phases, getting by with a little help from Raman by George Stonadge, Oxford Instruments X-Ray Technology
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Session: 4 - "Panel Session #1"
Moderated by: Wesley De Boever, Tescan-
What do we do with the data?
James Shreeve, Digital Lithics Ltd
Alan Bischoff, GTK
Rich Taylor, Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
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Wednesday 9th April 2025
Session: K2 - "Keynote Day 2"
Moderated by: Rich Taylor, Zeiss-
From Manuscripts to Rocks, how the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) can help collaborative scholarship by Glen Robson, IIIF
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Session: 5 - "Rock Textures"
Moderated by: Ross Davidson, EXPROBIZ-
Entropy-based textural heterogeneity measure applied to Brazilian pre-salt carbonate rocks by Luan Coelho Vieira da Silva, COPPE UFRJ
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Insights from combining CT and XRF - applied to hard rock drill core by Mikael Bergqvist, Orexplore Systems AB
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Session: 6 - "ML Applied to Rock Imaging"
Moderated by: Gunn Anita Løvrød, Stratum Reservoir-
Redox Reactions in Platinum-Group Element Rich Chromitite “Conestructures”: Characterisation by Deep-Learning Fusion of X-Ray Datasets. by Matt Divers, University of Glasgow
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Comparative Core Image Classification Using Transfer Learning and Advanced Data Augmentation
by Debastuti Ghosh, University of Alberta
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Towards a Data Driven Lithographic Classification of the Cold Bokkeveld Carbonaceous Chondrite by Joshua F. Einsle, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Decomposition of cuttings and core scans into constituent parts: a case study from the Ness Fm, Osprey Field, North Sea by Joseph Emmings, Geotek Ltd
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Session: 7 - "CT-based Rock Characterisation" 
Moderated by: Ivan Deshenenkov, Aramco
Sponsored by Core Specialist Services-
On the use of spectral tomography for rock characterization by Pascale Senechal, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
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From digital images of subsurface cores to rock typing. Example from North Sea Rotliegendes sandstones by Wesley De Boever, Tescan
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Imaging serpentinised rocks from the Mid-Atlantic ridge through µ-CT, spectral CT and 2D techniques: towards a better characterisation of alteration reactions by Noe Muckensturm, DMEX X-ray imaging - Université de Pau et des pays d'adour
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Session: 8 - "Panel Session #2" 
Moderated by: James Shreeve, Digital Lithics
Sponsored by Digital Lithics Ltd-
How do we communicate the value?
Russell Rogers, Geological Survey Ireland
Craig Lindsay, Core Specialist Services
Dr Jeremy Rushton, British Geological Survey
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Thursday 10th April 2025
Session: K3 - "Keynote Day 3"
Moderated by: Ross Davidson, Rock Imaging-
Core Scanning, Resistors and The Technology Triangle by James Shreeve, Digital Lithics
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Session: 9 - "Automated Mineralogy"
Moderated by: Ross Davidson, Rock Imaging-
ABC of Automated Mineralogy: Applications, Band width, Colours by Stefanie Lode, Geological Survey of Norway (NGU)
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SEM Automated Quantitative Mineralogy (AQM) - towards a greener future by Nynke Keulen, GEUS (Geological Survey for Denamrk and Greenland)
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Automated Selection of Sites for Chemical Microanalysis Using Image Segmentation by Ethan Tonks, Natural History Museum, London
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Session: 10 - "Software Tools & Platforms"
Moderated by: Craig Lindsay, Core Technical Services-
Integrated Mineralogical Characterization of the Vaca Muerta Formation Using SEM and Maps Min: Insights for Unconventional Hydrocarbon Exploration by Salomé Larmier, Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Geoslicer open source platform for digital rock image analysis by Rafael Arenhart, LTrace
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Stratbox Core Explorer, the digital twin of core stores - a new platform in maximizing the potential of well core datasets; applications in automated core data integration. by Claudia Ruiz-Graham, Imaged Reality
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