Pix2Geomodel: A Next-Generation Reservoir Geomodeling with Property-to-Property Translation. Interesting paper from Al-Fakih et al (2025).Conclusions“This study presented Pix2Geomodel, a pioneering conditional GAN framework, to enhance geological modeling of the Groningen gas field’s Rotliegend reservoir. By leveraging Pix2Pix architecture, the framework successfully predicted facies, porosity, permeability, and water saturation from masked inputs and facilitated property-to-property translation,... Continue Reading →

Narrative“A significant amount of research in the AI field of computer vision is being used to analyse humans in ways that support the development of surveillance technologies, according to new research. By analysing the contents of thousands of research papers, the team behind the work showed that 90% of studies, and 86% of patents resulting... Continue Reading →

Data Study Group Final Report: British Geological Survey - Detecting Shallow Gas from Marine Seismic Images.AbstractThis data study group challenge focused on extracting information from legacy offshore seismic data. The British Geological Survey has an archive of thousands of images of scanned paper records that contain information about the marine subsurface, but these images are... Continue Reading →

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is using Large Language Models to improve real-time monitoring of geological hazards and their impacts.“To date, the real-time impact data that is needed to effectively forecast and monitor geological hazard events has been unavailable or incomplete. The FloodTags platform aims to fill this gap by using large language models (LLMs)... Continue Reading →

Fossil Box for Schools including Special Educational Needs. I met up with Mark Baggott yesterday from the Earth Heritage Trust. He has been doing an absolutely remarkable job sourcing British Fossils in labeled boxes free for schools. So far over 150 schools have benefitted.Reading the handwritten letters first hand, from children who have had the... Continue Reading →

Open access geoscience data: First global scale submarine landform dataset driven by terrain knowledge at 15 arc second.Paper, code and dataset published by Yu et al (2025).This dataset is reported to be “the first global scale submarine landform dataset at 15 arc second, which offers a new perspective on submarine landforms, providing key insights into... Continue Reading →

Enjoyed listening and giving a talk to the AAPG and Mining Young Professionals network yesterday. Excellently organised event and thought provoking discussions.Great session from Graeme Bagley on soft skills, then an inspirational talk from Promise Ekeh .This was followed by geoscience digitalisation talks from Shashwat Verma , Peter Kiss and myself on unstructured data and... Continue Reading →