SEPM International Sedimentary Geosciences Congress
“Defining the critical role and impact of sedimentology in a sustainable future"
2026 | 15-17 - June | Golden, CO, USA (Colorado School of Mines)
Back by popular demand the next ISGC - this time hosted at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.
Defining the critical role and impact of sedimentology in a sustainable future!
Deadline is January 23rd, 2026!
This will be a 3-day conference with planned short courses and 1-day field trips preceding
the meeting, and multiday field trips planned for after the meeting.
Sedimentologists are playing a pivotal role in addressing global sustainability challenges by decoding the sedimentary record and applying their insights to critical resource and environmental systems. This meeting will convene researchers, industry professionals, and students to explore how sedimentology is advancing solutions in energy, climate resilience, and water security.
The program will highlight cutting-edge research, innovative methodologies, and applied case studies that demonstrate sedimentology’s impact in a sustainable future across five key themes:
Topic 1: Sedimentary Reservoirs, Carbon Mitigation, and Energy Transition.
Explore the role of sedimentary systems as reservoirs—whether for traditional energy extraction, carbon storage, or emerging energy solutions. We welcome research that highlights how sedimentary reservoirs support the energy transition, with a focus on their capacity for storage and resource development.
Topic 2: Water Resources, Hazards, Climate, and Society
Focus on the sedimentological and stratigraphic processes that govern water distribution and movement in the subsurface and across landscapes, including extreme events (e.g., flood hazards, droughts). We welcome work that connects sediment dynamics to water security, flood and drought behavior, and societal impacts under climate change.
Topic 3: Sedimentary Systems Through Time: Processes and Products
Show advances in understanding sedimentary systems across diverse environments, tectonic settings, and geologic time. We invite contributions that investigate depositional, diagenetic, and stratigraphic processes, with a focus on how these shape reservoir characteristics and influence broader geologic interpretations. Submissions are welcome from studies of siliciclastic, carbonate, evaporitic, and mixed sedimentary systems.
Topic 4: Decoding Depositional Systems: Integrating Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Experimental Stratigraphy
Highlight quantitative and integrative approaches to understanding how surface processes shape modern depositional environments and the stratigraphic record. Emphasis is on combining remote sensing, numerical models, laboratory experiments, and data‑driven methods.
Topic 5: Anthropogenic Sediments: Tracking Contaminants and the Human Fingerprint in Sedimentary Systems
Examine how human activity is reshaping sedimentary environments and leaving a lasting imprint on Earth’s stratigraphic record. We invite research that traces contaminants, documents novel sediment types, and evaluates the preservation of human signals over time.
The deadline for abstract submission is Friday January 23rd, 2026
Program Planning Committee
- Cody Miller <codymiller@chevron.com> Co-Chair
- Morgan D. Sullivan (morgandsullivan@aol.com) Co-Chair
- Lisa Stright <lisa.stright@colostate.edu> Co-Chair
- Chelsea Mackaman-Loftand<cmackama@utk.edu>
- Diana Ortega-Ariza <dianalo@ku.edu>
- Michael D. Blum (mblum@ku.edu)
- Rebecca Vanderleest <rebecca.vanderleest@colostate.edu>
- Tracy Frank (Tracy.frank@uconn.edu)
- Lesli Wood <lwood@mines.edu>
- Mary Carr (mcarr@mines.edu)
- Doug Edmonds <edmonds@iu.edu>
- Zane Jobe <zanejobe@mines.edu>