- The ISPC will be held on Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Sheraton Grand Rio Hotel & Resort.
- Students at an accredited university or having graduated from within 12 months preceding the ISPC are qualified and invited to submit their paper at their relevant degree category: Undergraduate (B.Sc.), Masters (M.Sc.), or Doctorate (Ph.D.)
- Students affiliated with a local SPWLA Student Chapter must first submit and present their paper (abstract and presentation) to their Student Chapter as part of the Internal Student Chapter Paper Contest (ISCPC). The local Student Chapter will rank and nominate up to three students at each degree category from their chapter to submit to the ISPC. ISCPC are run independently by the local Student Chapter and must be complete by Friday, March 1, 2024.
- Students without a local SPWLA Student Chapter are invited to submit their paper at their relevant degree category directly to ISPC.
- All papers must be submitted to the ISPC online by Friday, March 1, 2024. There are no exemptions.
- All paper submissions to the ISPC must include online entry form, online abstract, and online sponsoring professor declaration.
- All papers submitted to the ISPC are allowed multiple student author(s)/presenter(s) and faculty author(s). Awards conferred at the ISPC are shared equally among student presenter(s). Faculty author(s) must have mentored or contributed directly to the study and are not allowed to present.
- To be eligible for presentation at the ISPC, the paper must be authored and presented by a qualifying student(s) and must not have been submitted (even with no decision), accepted, presented, or published to any other venue, conference, or publication, including those of the SPWLA itself.
- Students selected to present at the ISPC will be notified by email by Friday, March 15, 2024.
- Students selected to present at the ISPC must submit presentation file (MS PowerPoint attachment) online by Thursday, May 9, 2024. All presentations must use the ISPC template, which will be downloadable from here soon.
- All submissions – both abstract and presentation – must be in English.
- Please contact papercompetition@spwla.org for questions.
Kelly Skuce // SPWLA VP Education, 2022-2024
Gisela Miranda de Souza Almeida // Chair of 2024 SPWLA International Student Paper Contest