The conference was attended by 2 members of the Geological Mapping Programme from Geological Survey Ireland as well as geologists from other European Geological Surveys and representatives from 3D geological model software companies. 

Geologist Beatriz Mozo Lopez, form our Geological Mapping Programme, gave a short presentation about the state of the 3D geological modelling in GSI.

Image: Group of all the participants in the 6th European Meeting on 3D Geological Modelling

By the numbers the meeting included:

• ​​One day field trip to the Holy Cross Mountains
• A four-hour tour of Warsaw city centre led by history guides who presented historical sites of geological interest and members of the Polish Geological Institute
• ​19 European Geological Surveys
• 19 countries gave an update of their 3D modelling, including Ireland
  
• ​23 Scientific presentations divided in five themes:

1.  ​Communicating geological models
2. ​New challenges and solutions in geomodelling for meeting civil society needs
3. New challenges and solutions in urban geology modelling
4. ​Novel methodologies and approaches to geomodelling for clean, efficient and at scale energy systems and mining.
5. ​Communicating and justifying a need for basic, general-purpose geomodelling​
   

• ​Four thematic breakout sessions:
1. ​Communication and outreach and visualization
2. Stakeholders and policy makers
3. Unvertainty of 3D geological models
4. Transition of sedimentary modelling to hard rock basin mdelling​
• ​21 posters
• 3 software presentations and demonstrations from various companies​​​

​About the European 3D geological modelling community 

At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in 2011 a group of representatives from European geological surveys recognised the need to establish a series of meetings and workshops exploring the subject of 3D geological modelling. 

The aim of this community is "to exchange progress, problems and solutions to better understand and communicate the 3D composition and properties of the subsurface to support science-based decision making".

The first meeting took place in 2013 in Utrecht and since then every two years the surveys meet in different places.

You can visit the European 3D geological modelling community website HERE.​