4th British Seismology Meeting (BSM2024)
25-27 March 2024, Reading Town Hall, UK
http://bsm2024.isc.ac.uk
The second ISC-organised conference, highlighting and celebrating the diverse research
in the UK and beyond
Organising Committee
Ryan Gallacher Natalia Poiata Tom Garth Dmitry Storchak Lynn Elms Domenico Di Giacomo
Overview
During 25th-27th March 2024, seismologists from the UK and abroad met in Reading for the second conference organised by the International Seismological Centre (ISC) in its 60+ year history. There was great support from the seismology community, with 133 attendees, 6 keynotes, 41 talks, 54 posters and exhibits from GaiaCode, Güralp, Nanometrics, Raspberry Shake and SMARTSOLO Scientific, Royal Astronomical Society, Stryde and the British Geophysical Association. Topics covered at the meeting included: Earth characterization and monitoring; Recent large earthquakes and hazardous fault zones; Seismology and climate change mitigation; Big data, machine learning and geophysical inversion; Novel applications of observational seismology; Industrial and forensic seismology.
Thanks to BGA and AWE sponsorship, BSM2024 hosted six invited speakers: Ross Heyburn (AWE, Blacknest, UK), Daniela Kühn (NORSAR, Norway), Andrew Curtis (University of Edinburgh, UK), Karin Sigloch (CNRS, Geoazur, France), Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge, UK), and David Cornwell (University of Aberdeen, UK).
As per BSM tradition, the prizes for best student poster and the Flinn-Engdahl earthquake game were awarded to Sam Scivier (University of Oxford, UK) and Michael Pasyanos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), respectively. In addition, Tim Craig (University of Leeds, UK) was awarded as the BSM attendee with more papers (since 2012) that have used ISC datasets and services.
During the conference dinner Roger Musson (formerly British Geological Survey) gave an entertaining talk entitled "The Great Reading Earthquake" covering aspects of earthquake reporting in the literature and the press, with a look to the future and the possible use, and consequences, of AI.
Overall, the meeting celebrated the diverse research going on in the UK and abroad. The positive feedback and enthusiasm from BSM2024 attendees highlighted the benefit of a UK-based seismology meeting every two years, and we look forward to BSM2026 in Leeds!
Download the BSM2024 full
abstract booklet.
Special thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors:
BSM2024 Sponsors
Location: Reading Town Hall
The venue chosen to host the BSM2024 conference was The Town Hall in the nearby County town of Reading.
The same location had been used to host the first BSM meeting, BSM2017.
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Exterior photo showing the outside of Reading Town Hall
Interior of the Concert Hall, within the Town Hall - the specific area where BSM2024 took place
Interior of the Concert Hall, within the Town Hall - showing seating in addition to the stage area
Oral Programme
Prizes awarded
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Tim Craig, Uni Leeds (right): Most frequent user of ISC data among the BSM attendees, handed out by Domenico Di Giacomo
Sam Scivier, Oxford Uni (right): Best student poster, handed out by Natalia Poiata
Mike Pasyanos, LLNL (right): EQ competition, handed out by Tom Garth