One of SEG’s great traditions is the special recognition of individuals and organizations for their contributions to geophysics and to the Society. The 2009−2010 Honors and Awards Committee would like to solicit your nominations for deserving recipients to be honored at the 2010 Annual Meeting.
SEG’s 80th Annual Meeting will be held 17–22 October 2010. In order to guarantee that all deserving individuals and organizations receive consideration for appropriate recognition, please submit all nominations by 1 January 2010 to allow the Honors and Awards Committee enough time for appropriate investigation, deliberation, and recommendations to the Executive Committee.
Nominations should be sent to:
SEG Honors and Awards Committee c/o SEG Business Office/Mandi Duckworth P. O. Box 702740 Tulsa, OK 74170-2740, USA
Nominations may also be sent by fax +1.918.497.5560 or by e-mail.
Please include a brief summary describing the specific achievement or contribution that you think merits formal recognition by SEG. Supporting information and letters of recommendation are very useful to the committee.
Your timely input is vital to this important function of the SEG. If you have any questions, please send them via e-mail. Thank you very much for your assistance in making SEG’s Honors and Awards Program a meaningful and representative activity of the Society.
Distinguished Awards
The awards presented by SEG are listed below. Click on the name of the award for a detailed description of each award as well as a list of past recipients.
The Maurice Ewing Medal shall be awarded from time to time to a person who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and of the Executive Committee, is deserving of special recognition through having made major contributions to the advancement of the science and profession of exploration geophysics. The award of the Maurice Ewing Award shall confer Honorary Membership on its recipients.
1978 Cecil H. Green 1979 C. Hewitt Dix 1981 J. Tuzo Wilson 1982 Frank Press 1983 W. Harry Mayne 1984 L. L. Nettleton 1985 N. A. Anstey 1986 J. E. White 1987 Arthur A. Brant 1988 Franklyn K. Levin 1989 Sven Treitel 1990 Milo M. Backus 1991 Theodor C. Krey 1992 Jon F. Claerbout 1993 M. Turhan Taner
1995 Harold O. Seigel 1996 Ken Larner 1997 Thomas R. LaFehr 1998 Robert E. Sheriff 1999 Gerald H. F. Gardner 2000 Stanley H. Ward 2001 Enders A. Robinson 2002 Gordon F. West 2003 A. J. Berkhout 2004 Vlastislav Cervený 2005 Robert J. Graebner 2006 Fred Hilterman 2007 Roy Oliver Lindseth 2008 John W. C. Sherwood 2009 David W. Strangway
Honorary Membership
Honorary Membership shall be conferred upon persons who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, have made distinguished contributions, which warrants exceptional recognition, to exploration geophysics or a related field or to the advancement of the profession of exploration geophysics through service to the Society.
1930 L. Mintrop 1930 E. L. DeGolyer 1936 Wallace E. Pratt 1936 L. P. Garrett 1940 Donald C. Barton (posthumous) 1950 John C. Karcher 1952 E. A. Eckhardt 1954 Cecil H. Green 1954 James B. Macelwane 1954 Paul Weaver 1956 Lewis L. Nettleton 1957 W. Maurice Ewing 1958 Burton McCollum 1958 William Shriever 1959 W. T. Born 1959 Frank Rieber (posthumous) 1959 Louis B. Slichter 1960 M. King Hubbert 1962 Dave P. Carlton 1962 Sigmund I. Hammer 1963 Arthur A. Brant 1963 Roy L. Lay 1965 Ralph D. Wyckoff 1966 L. Y. Faust 1966 O. F. Ritzmann 1967 Frank Goldstone 1967 Paul L. Lyons 1968 Norman H. Ricker 1968 J. P. Woods 1969 C. Hewitt Dix 1969 Raymond A. Peterson 1970 F. A. Van Melle 1971 John C. Hollister 1971 Eugene McDermott 1971 H. B. Peacock 1971 O. S. Petty Sr. 1971 Henry Salvatori 1971 G. H. Westby 1972 Frank Press 1973 Antonio Garcia Rojas 1973 J. Tuzo Wilson 1974 Daniel Silverman 1975 Albert W. Musgrave 1976 Roland G. Henderson 1976 James E. White 1977 Nigel A. Anstey 1977 Bastiaan Baars 1978 Howard R. Breck 1978 John M. Crawford 1978 Milton B. Dobrin 1978 Franklyn K. Levin 1978 W. Harry Mayne 1978 Vincent E. McKelvey 1978 M. Turhan Taner 1978 Sam P. Worden 1979 Sidney Kaufman 1979 Thomas R. LaFehr 1979 Robert E. Sheriff 1978 Robert Van Nostrand 1980 Samuel J. Allen 1980 Bimal K. Bhattacharyya (posthumous) 1980 Kenneth E. Burg 1980 Carl H. Savit 1981 Charles C. Bates 1981 Santos Figueroa 1981 Richard A. Geyer 1981 Theodor C. Krey 1982 Klaus Helbig 1982 William M. Rust Jr. 1982 J. Dan Skelton 1982 Stanley H. Ward 1983 Michel T. Halbouty 1983 Robert B. Rice
1983 Enders A. Robinson 1983 David W. Strangway 1983 Sven Treitel 1984 Roy O. Lindseth 1984 Aaron J. Seriff 1984 Paul C. Wuenschel 1985 Jon F. Claerbout 1985 Booth B. Strange 1985 Peter R. Vail 1985 Keeva Vozoff 1986 Allan V. Cox 1986 S. Norman Domenico 1986 Lucien J. B. LaCoste 1987 Craig Ferris 1987 Albert A. Fitch 1987 Misac N. Nabighian 1988 Milo M. Backus 1988 Gu Gong-Xu 1989 J. G. Hagedoorn 1989 Fabio L. Rocca 1989 Ethel Ward-McLemore 1990 Peter N. S. O'Brien 1990 William A. Schneider 1990 Sabba S. Stefanescu 1991 Gerald H. F. Gardner 1991 Pierre L. Goupillaud 1991 Gordon F. West 1992 Vlastislav Cerveny 1992 Gerald W. Hohmann (posthumous) 1992 John H. Hyden 1993 A. J. Berkhout 1993 John W. C. Sherwood 1993 James R. Wait 1994 Ernest R. Kanasewich 1994 Johann W. Sattlegger 1995 Robert J. Graebner 1995 Fred Hilterman 1995 Paul Newman 1995 Weng Wen-Bo (posthumous) 1996 Amos M. Nur 1996 Roy E. White 1997 Anders Farestveit 1997 Peter Hubral 1997 Edward Rudolph Prince Jr. 1998 William S. French 1998 Robert H. Stolt 1999 H. Frank Morrison 1999 M. Nafi Toksöz 2000 A. Peter Annan 2000 Larry R. Lines 2001 Robert J. Garotta 2001 Douglas W. Oldenburg 2001 Gerald M. Mavko 2002 L. Decker Dawson 2002 Michael Schoenberger 2003 Mike Graul 2003 Richard O. Hansen 2003 Ian G. Jack 2004 Aleksander A. Kaufman 2004 Tadeusz J. Ulrych 2004 Ronald W. Ward (posthumous) 2005 Norman Bleistein 2005 James D. Robertson 2006 Alistair R. Brown 2007 Virgil Bardan 2007 Bob A. Hardage 2008 William N. Barkhouse 2008 Rutt Bridges 2008 L. C. (Lee) Lawyer 2008 Brian H. Russell 2009 Samir Abdelmoaty 2009 Don Steeples 2009 Sally G. Zinke
Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal Award
The Kauffman Gold Medal is awarded to a person who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the science of geophysical exploration as manifested during the previous five years. The contribution may be of a technical or a professional nature.
1966 Cecil H. Green 1967 Lucien J. B. LaCoste 1968 Howard A. Slack 1969 Robert E. Sheriff 1970 Roy O. Lindseth 1971 Joseph Zemanek 1972 Nigel A. Anstey 1973 Samuel J. Allen 1974 David W. Strangway 1975 Stephen Chelminski 1976 Peter R. Vail 1977 M. B. Widess 1978 William J. Zwart 1979 Carl H. Savit 1980 A. R. Barringer 1981 S. Norman Domenico 1982 J. T. Cherry 1982 Kenneth H. Waters 1983 Sidney Kaufman 1983 Jack E. Oliver 1984 Fred J. Hilterman 1985 William J. Ostrander 1986 John W. C. Sherwood 1988 Stuart Crampin 1989 Ira David Hale
1990 Richard M. Alford 1991 Oz Yilmaz 1994 Davis W. Ratcliff 1995 Fred J. Barr Jr. 1995 Joe I. Sanders 1996 Ilya Tsvankin 1997 George A. McMechan 1998 Michael S. Bahorich 1999 Eivind W. Berg 1999 James E. Martin 1999 Bjørnar A. Svenning 2001 Patrick Connolly 2002 Michael L. Batzle 2002 Zhijing (Zee) Wang 2003 Gregory A. Partyka 2004 N. Ross Hill 2005 Robert J. Greaves 2005 Terry Fulp 2006 Dirk Jacob (Eric) Verschuur 2007 Terje Eidesmo 2007 Svein Ellingsrud 2007 Leonard James Srnka 2008 Carl J. Regone 2008 John T. Etgen 2009 No award
Cecil Green Enterprise Award
The Enterprise Award was established to recognize the importance of an individual enterprise to the economic vitality of our industry and shall be conferred from time to time on persons who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, have demonstrated courage, ingenuity, and achievement while risking their own resources and future in developing a product, service, organization, or activity which is recognized as a distinct and worthy contribution to the industry.
1989 Roy O. Lindseth 1991 Rutt Bridges 1992 Charles R. Pelton 1993 James Duncan McNeill 1995 Kenneth L. Zonge 1996 Daniel Patrick Hampson 1996 Brian H. Russell 1997 L. Decker Dawson 1998 David B. Robson 1999 Harold A (Andy) Hildebrand 1999 Robert S. Limbaugh 1999 John O. Mouton 1999 H. Roice Nelson Jr. 2000 Thomas A. Smith 2001 Aubra E. Tilley 2002 James (Pat) Cunneen 2003 Paul van Riel
2004 Fred J. Hilterman 2004 Reginald N. Neale (posthumous) 2004 John W.C. Sherwood 2005 Alan Faichney 2005 Alastair Hay (posthumous) 2005 David Phillip (posthumous) 2006 A. Peter Annan 2006 Charles David Leggatt 2006 Steve Cosway 2006 Lowry T. Chua 2007 (no award recipients this year) 2008 Billy F. Mitcham Sr. 2009 Tom LaFehr 2009 Kwok C. Chan
Reginald Fessenden Award (formerly Medal Award)
The Reginald Fessenden Award is given to a person who has made a specific technical contribution to exploration geophysics, such as an invention or a theoretical or conceptual advancement, which, in the opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, merits special recognition.
1961 Beno Gutenberg (posthumous) 1961 Raoul Vajk 1965 W. Harry Mayne 1967 John M. Crawford 1967 William E. N. Doty 1967 Milford R. Lee 1969 Enders A. Robinson 1969 Sven Treitel 1971 R. A. Broding 1971 G. C. Summers 1971 C. B. Vogel 1972 W. D. Mounce 1973 Jon F. Claerbout 1974 Sam P. Worden 1975 Victor Vacquierv 1976 Leroy C. Paslay 1977 Norman H. Ricker 1978 J. W. Miller 1979 Peter Hubral 1980 R. H. Stolt 1981 Haines C. Hibbard 1982 E. V. McCollum 1983 Harold A. Sears 1984 Richard N. Jolly 1984 Franklyn K. Levin 1985 Ralph A. Harris 1986 T. R. Madden 1987 Byron L. Gariepy 1987 John H. Koonce
1989 Reinhard K. Bortfeld 1990 Vaino Ronka 1993 Leon Thomsen 1994 Donald W. Rockwell 1995 Derecke Palmer 1996 Luis L. Canales 1997 Jean P. Morlet 1998 Elmer Eisner 1998 Ben F. Giles 1998 E.R. (Harry) Harrison 1998 Donald L. Howlett 1998 Roy C. Johnston 1998 Robert J. Loofbourrow 1998 James Vanderford 1999 James E. Rickenbacker 1999 John J. Sallas 2000 Robert E. Howard 2001 (no recipient awarded this year) 2002 George C. Smith 2002 P.M. (Maurice) Gidlow 2003 Kurt-Martin Strack 2004 Biondo L. Biondi 2005 John P. Castagna 2005 Matthew L. Greenberg 2006 Dan Hampson 2007 Paul C. Sava 2008 Paul M. Krail 2008 Dwight V. Sukup 2009 Keeva Vozoff
J. Clarence Karcher Award
To honor the memory of Clarence Karcher and his enormous contribution to exploration geophysics, the J. Clarence Karcher Award is given in recognition of significant contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics by a young geophysicist of outstanding abilities who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, merits such recognition. Recipients must be less than 35 years of age on November 1 of the year preceding presentation of the award. A maximum of three awards can be given each year.
1996 Maarten de Hoop 1996 David E. Lumley 1996 James W. Rector III 1997 Eric Verschuur 1997 Spyros K. Lazaratos 1997 Vladimir Grechka 1998 Tariq Ali Alkhalifah 1998 John E. Eastwood 1998 Jörg Schleicher 1999 Kenneth H. Matson 1999 Andreas Rüger 2000 Fernanda Araújo Gasparotto 2000 Tapan Mukerji 2000 Tamas Nemeth 2001 Sergey B. Fomel 2001 Muhammad M. Saggaf
2002 Rob W. Vestrum 2002 Oleg V. Mikhailov 2003 Edward Jenner 2004 Henning Kuehl 2004 Yu Zhang 2005 Mustafa Naser Al-Ali 2005 Andrey V. Bakulin 2005 Simon A. Shaw 2006 Kristopher A. Innanen 2007 Robert G. Clapp 2007 Antoine Guitton 2007 Matthew M. Haney 2008 Dirk-Jan van Manen 2009 Bogdan G. Nita 2009 Haiyan Zhang
Distinguished Achievement Award
The Distinguished Achievement Award shall be given from time to time to a company, institution, or other organization for a specific technical contribution or contributions that have, in the opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, substantially advanced the science of exploration geophysics.
1986 Geophysical Service Inc. 1986 Texas Instruments Inc. 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1989 Geophysical Service Inc. 1991 Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics 1994 DigiCOURSE Inc. 1995 Stanford University, Department of Geophysics 1997 Allied Geophysical Laboratories, University of Houston 1998 Western Geophysical 1999 Exxon Production Research Company 2001 Laboratory of Seismics and Acoustics, Delft University 2002 Kansas Geological Survey
2003 CREWES Project, University of Calgary 2004 Curtin University Reservoir Geophysics Consortium 2005 Robert Ballard's Institute for Exploration 2006 Compagnie Générale de Géophysique 2006 Geological Survey of Canada 2007 CSEM: Statoil Research Centre, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Southampton, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company 2008 Shell Exploration and Production Company, WesternGeco, BP, BHP Billiton, Chevron, ExxonMobil 2009 GOCAD Consortium
Life Membership Award
Life Membership may be conferred on persons who have voluntarily rendered exceptionally meritorious service to the Society that, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, warrants recognition.
1954 William W. Butler 1954 O. F. Ritzmann 1968 Virgil Kauffman 1968 O. D. Waters Jr. 1973 Craig Ferris 1973 Frank Searcy 1975 Raoul Vajk 1978 Bettye Athanasiou 1979 Alfred J. Hermont 1980 Roy F. Bennett 1980 E. V. McCollum 1980 Hugh M. Thralls 1981 Ralph B. Ross 1981 Benjamin F. Rummerfield 1982 J. Frank Rollins 1983 Donald R. Brown 1983 Norman J. Christie 1983 Jack M. Proffitt 1983 W. B. Robinson 1984 David L. Yowell 1985 Anton W. Smit 1986 Harold J. Kidder 1986 William E. Laing 1987 Kenneth L. Cook 1988 Richard L. Fentem 1988 Elwin M. Peacock 1989 Edwin B. Neitzel 1989 Reginald G. Nelson 1989 Ben B. Thigpen 1990 Stanley B. Jones 1990 K. M. Lawrence 1991 Richard A. Baile 1991 Paul C. Wuenschel 1992 Meng Ersheng 1992 Richard E. Schneider 1994 Elmer Eisner 1994 Hugh W. Hardy 1995 Jack C. Weyand 1995 Paul Farren 1996 Valery Garipov
1996 Brian R. Spies 1996 Don W. Steeples 1997 Michael J. G. Cox 1997 J. Pat Lindsey 1997 Norman S. Neidell 1998 Zuchuan Chen 1998 Gary M. Hoover 1998 Nicolay A. Savostyanov 1998 Yoram Shoham 1999 Peter M. Duncan 1999 Kay Dautenhahn Wyatt 2000 Georgiy N. Gogonenkov 2000 Jean-Claude Grosset 2000 L.C. (Lee) Lawyer 2001 Joe A. Dellinger 2001 Joseph H. Rosenbaum 2002 John (Jack) G. Caldwell 2002 Richard W. Verm 2002 Samir Abdel Moaty 2003 Bob A. Hardage 2003 Gene W. Sparkman 2003 Simon Spitz 2004 Paul S. Cunningham 2004 David H. Johnston 2005 Ananda Gopal Pramanik 2005 Brian H. Russell 2005 Wenrong Xu 2006 William H. Dragoset 2006 Robert R. Stewart 2007 William L. Abriel 2007 James E. Gaiser 2008 Klaas Koster 2008 Susan Mastoris Peebler 2008 Gary G. Servos 2009 Maria Angela Capello 2009 Panos G. Kelamis 2009 Rosemary Knight 2009 David Monk 2009 Aldo Vesnaver
Special Commendation
SEG established Special Commendation for the purpose of recognizing and honoring deserving persons for meritorious services to the public, the scientific community, or to our profession. This award may be for recognized community leadership, professional leadership, or for contributions outside the main stream of geophysics which, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, warrant special recognition.
1980 J. Edward Snyder 1981 R. A. Frosch 1983 Stanley B. Jones 1990 Fritz Gassman 1991 Lawrence W. Funkhouser 1992 George C. McGhee 1992 Robert Shrock 1994 Özer Altan 1995 Albert W. Bally 1996 Wagner Freire 1996 Robert E. Sheriff 1997 M. E. (Shorty) Trostle 1997 Milo M. Backus 1997 Robert J. Graebner 1998 Fred Aminzadeh 1998 Alain Bamberger 1998 Jean Brac 1998 Alistair R. Brown 1998 Norman R. Burkhard 1998 Pierre Duclos 1998 Bob A. Hardage 1998 Timothy J. Kunz 1998 E. O. Nestvold 1998 Laurence Nicoletis 1998 Fabio L. Rocca 1998 Kay Dautenhahn Wyatt 1999 Carlos A. Diaz 1999 J. Derek Fairhead 1999 J. Michael Graul
2000 W. Scott Baldridge 2000 George R. Jiracek 2000 Stephen J. Hill 2000 Lu Bang-gan 2001 Mahboub Al-Chalabi 2001 Horst Rüter 2002 Mahboub Al-Chalabi 2002 John W. Stockwell Jr. 2002 Jack K. Cohen 2002 Einar Kjartansson 2002 Joshua (Shuky) Ronen 2003 James Eduardo Jaramillo E. 2004 (no award recipients this year) 2005 Alf Klaveness 2006 L.C. (Lee) Lawyer 2006 Rhonda Boone 2006 Michael H.B. Golding 2006 Thomas K. Fulton 2006 D. Gene Womack 2007 Katharine Lee Avary 2007 Martha Lou Broussard 2007 Michael M. Deal 2007 Randi S. Martinsen 2007 Charles R. "Chuck" Noll 2007 Roger M. Slatt 2007 Mary Beth Hattaberg 2007 James V. White 2008 Richard (Dick) A. Baile 2009 No award
Best Paper inGeophysics Award
The Best Paper in Geophysics is selected by the Editor for consideration as a candidate for the award. Recognized minimum requirements are permanent interest, form and readability, and potential for the advancement of the geophysical profession.
1947 "The fundamental equations of electrical prospecting," R. Maillet
1949 "The direct approach to magnetic interpretation and its practical application," L. J. Peters
1950 "Fault interpretation from seismic data in southwest Texas," Miller Quarles Jr.
1951 "Seismic velocity as a function of depth and geologic time," L. Y. Faust
1952 "The significance of diffraction in the investigation of faults," T. Krey
1953 "The refraction arrival in water covered layers," C. B. Officer Jr.
1954 "Reflection quality a fourth dimension," B. F. Rummerfield
1955 "The synthesis of seismograms from well log data," R. A. Peterson, W. R. Fillippone, and F. B. Coker
1956 "Investigation of shear waves," R. N. Jolly
1957 "The Gulf seismic profile printer," E. M. Palmer
1958 "Directivity effect of elongated charges," A. W. Musgrave, G. W. Ehlert, and D. M. Nash Jr.
1959 "Water reverberations their nature and elimination," M. M. Backus
1960 "Continuous signal seismograph," J. M. Crawford, W. E. N. Doty, and M. R. Lee
1961 "Wave-front charts and three-dimensional migrations," A. W. Musgrave
1962 "Head waves from a bed of finite thickness," F. K. Levin and J. D. Ingram
1963 "Standard curves for interpretation of magnetic anomalies over long tabular bodies," S. Parker Gay Jr.
1964 "Principles of digital filtering," E. A. Robinson and Sven Treitel
1965 "Velocity and frequency filtering of seismic data using laser light," Milton B. Dobrin, Arthur L. Ingalls, and James A. Long
1966 "The development and use of a high-precision downhole gravity-meter," Lynn G. Howell, K. O. Heintz, and A. Barry
1967 "The digital processing of seismic data," Daniel Silverman
1968 "Deep crustal seismic reflections at near-vertical incidence," R. M. Clowes, E. R. Kanasewich, and G. L. Cumming
1969 "Predictive deconvolution†theory and practice," K. L. Peacock and Sven Treitel
1970 "Three-dimensional seismic modeling," Fred J. Hilterman
1971 "Seismic stratigraphic exploration†Parts I, II, & III," John D. Marr
1972 "Three-dimensional seismic method," G. G. Walton
1973 "Use of wavefront curvature to relate seismic data with subsurface parameters," Pravin M. Shah
1974 "Effect of water saturation on seismic reflectivity of sand reservoirs encased in shale," S. N. Domenico
1975 "Three-dimensional induced-polarization and electromagnetic modeling," Gerald W. Hohmann
1976 "Residual static analysis as a general linear inverse problem," Ralph A. Wiggins, Ken Larner, and Robert D. Wisecup
1977 "Peg-leg multiples and dipping reflectors," F. K. Levin and P. M. Shah
1978 "Mineral discrimination and removal of inductive coupling with multifrequency induced-polarization," W. H. Pelton, S. H. Ward, P. G. Hallof, W. R. Sill, and P. H. Nelson
1979 "Magnetotellurics with a remote magnetic reference," Thomas D. Gamble, Wolfgang M. Goubau, and John Clarke
1980 "Channel wave mapping of coal seams in the United Kingdom," Iain M. Mason, David J. Buchanan, and Anthony K. Booer
1981 "The airborne electromagnetic discovery of the Detour zinc-copper-silver deposit Northwestern Quebec," Laurie E. Reed
1982 "Field development with three-dimensional seismic methods in the Gulf of Thailand: A case history," C. G. Dahm and Robert J. Graebner
1983 "Analysis of seismic data using horizontal cross-sections," M. R. Bone, B. F. Giles, and E. R. Tegland
1984 "A time-domain electromagnetic system measuring the step-response of the ground," G. F. West, J. C. Macnae, and Y. Lamontagne
1985 "Direct hydrocarbon detection using comparative P-wave and S-wave seismic sections," James D. Robertson and William C. Pritchett
1986 "Automatic estimation of large residual statics corrections," Daniel H. Rothman
1987 "Three-dimensional seismic monitoring of an enhanced oil recovery process," R. J. Greaves and T. J. Fulp
1988 "Cooperative inversion of geophysical data," Larry R. Lines, A. K. Schultz, and Sven Treitel
1989 "Time slices from two-dimensional surveys," M. H. Miller and William S. French
1990 "Analysis of conventional and converted mode reflections at Putah Sink, California using three-component data," Clint W. Frasier and Don Winterstein
1991 "Sources of aeromagnetic anomalies over Cement oil field (Oklahoma), Simpson oil field (Alaska), and the Wyoming-Idaho-Utah thrust belt," R. L. Reynolds, N. S. Fishman, and M. R. Hudson
1992 "Imaging salt with turning seismic waves," David Hale, N. Ross Hill, and Joseph Stefani
1993 "Bullwinkle: A unique 3D experiment," James K. OêConnell, Madhu Kohli, and Scott Amos
1994 "Remote sensing of seismic vibrations by laser Doppler interferometry," A. J. Berni
1995 "Integrated reservoir characterization: Beyond tomography," Larry R. Lines, Henry Tan, Sven Treitel, John Beck, Richard L. Chambers, John Eager, Charles Savage, John Queen, William D. Rizer, Paul L. Buller, V. Dale Cox, John B. Sinton, James H. Ballard, George F. Kokkoros, Antoine Track, Philippe Guerendel, Jerry Harris, Spyros K. Lazaratos, and Mark A. Van Schaack.
1996 "Effects of salt-related mode conversions on subsalt prospecting," Jeffrey S. Ogilvie and Guy W. Purnell
1997 "Automatic conversion of magnetic data to depth, dip, and susceptibility contrast using the SPI™! method," Jeffrey B. Thurston and Richard S. Smith
1998 "3D seismic attributes using a semblance-based coherency algorithm," Kurt J. Marfurt, Steven L. Farmer, Rodney Lynn Kirlin, and Michael S. Bahorich
1999 "Manual seismic reflection tomography," Gary E. Murphy and Samuel H. Gray
2000 "On unified dual fields and Einstein deconvolution," Dan Lowenthal and Enders A. Robinson
2001 "Discrimination between pressure and fluid saturation changes from time-lapse seismic data," Martin Landrø
2002 "Characterization of fluid transport properties of reservoirs using induced anisotropy," Serge A. Shapiro, Elmar Rothert, Volker Rath and Jan Rindschwentner
2003 "A new sea-floor gravimeter," Glenn S. Sasagawa, Wayne C. Crawford, Ola Eiken, Scott Nooner, Torkjell Stenvold and Mark A. Zumberge
2004 "Experimental design: Electrical resistivity data sets that provide optimum subsurface information," Peter Stummer, Hansruedi Maurer, and Alan G. Green
2005 "Theory of true-amplitude one-way wave equations and true-amplitude common-shot migration," Yu Zhang, Guanquan Zhang and Norman Bleistein
2006 "Green's function representations for seismic interferometry," Kees Wapenaar and Prof. Jacob T. Fokkema
2007 "Field tests of electroseismic hydrocarbon detection," Arthur H. Thompson, Scott C. Hornbostel, James S. Burns, Thomas J. Murray, Robert Raschke, John C. Wride, Paul Z. McCammon, John R. Sumner, Greg Haake, Mark Bixby, Warren S. Ross, Benjamin S. White, Minyao Zhou, and Pawel Peczak
2008 "Velocity model building by 3D frequency-domain, full-waveform inversion of wide-aperture seismic data," Hafedh BEN-HADJ-ALI, Stéphane Operto, and Jean VIRIEUX
Honorable Mentions (Geophysics)
1998 "3D symmetric sampling," Gijs J. O. Vermeer
1998 "Bounds on low-frequency seismic velocities in partially saturated rocks," Gerald (Gary) M. Mavko and Tapan Mukerji
1998 "Smiles and frowns in migration velocity analysis," Jinming Zhu, Larry R. Lines, and Samuel H. Gray
1998 "Some remarks on surface multiple attenuation," William H. Dragoset and Zeljko Jericevic
1999 "Converted-wave reflection seismology over inhomogeneous, anisotropic media," Leon Thomsen
1999 "Imaging structures below dipping TI media," Robert W. Vestrum, Donald C. Lawton, and Ron Schmid
1999 "Estimating depth of investigation in dc resistivity and IP surveys," Douglas W. Oldenburg and Yaoguo Li
1999 "Concepts of normal and dip moveout," Christopher L. Liner
1999 "3D moveout inversion in azimuthally anisotropic media with lateral velocity variation: Theory and a case study," Vladimir Grechka and Ilya Tsvankin
2000 "3D prestack Kirchhoff beam migration for depth imaging," Yonghe Sun, Fuhao Qin, Steve Checkles, and Jacques P. Leveille
2000 "Shear-wave velocity and density estimation from PS-wave AVO anaysis: Application to an OBS dataset set from the North Sea," Side Jin, G. Cambois, and C. Vuillermoz
2000 "Phase encoding of shot records in prestack migration," Louis A. Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia, Curtis C. Ober, and Scott A. Morton
2000 "Drill-bit signal separation for RVSP using statistical independence," Flavio Poletto, Fabio L. Rocca, and Luca Bertelli
2001 Seismic migration problems and solutions," Samuel H. Gray, John Etgen, Joe Dellinger, and Dan Whitmore
2001 "Prestack Gaussian-beam depth migration," N. Ross Hill
2001 "Use of multiattribute transforms to predict log properties from seismic data," Daniel P. Hampson, James S. Schuelke, and John A. Quirein
2001 "Potential-field inversion: Choosing the appropriate technique to solve a geologic problem," João B.C. Silva, Walter E. Medeiros, and Valéria C.F. Barbosa
2002 "PP + PSS = SS," Vladimir Gretchka and Ilya Tsvankin
2002 "Seismic modeling," Jose Carcione, Gerard Herman and Fons Ten Kroode
2002 "Seismic anisotropy in sedimentary rocks, part 1: A single-plug laboraroty method," Zhijing Wang
2002 "A new approach to offshore drill-bit reverse seismic vertical profiling (RSVP)," Flavio Poletto and Guiliano Dordolo
2003 "Angle-domain common-image gathers by wavefield continuation methods," Paul C. Sava and Sergey Fomel
2003 "Focusing in dip and AVA compensation on scattering-angle/azimuth common image gathers," Sverre Brandsperg-Dahl, Maarten V. e Hoop and Bjørn Ursin
2003 "Seismic trace interpolation in the Fourier transform domain," Necati Gülünay
2003 "An efficient finite-difference scheme for electromagnetic logging in 3D anisotropic inhomogeneous media," Sofia Davydycheva, Vladimir L. Druskin and Tarek Habashy
2004 "Efficient waveform inversion and imaging: A strategy for selecting temporal frequencies," Laurent Sirgue and R. Gerhard Pratt
2004 "Diffraction imaging by focusing-defocusing: An outlook on seismic superresolution," V. Khaidukov, Evgeny Landa, and T. J. Moser
2004 "Coupled geomechanics and flow simulation for time-lapse seismic modeling," Susan E. Minkoff, Charles Mike Stone, Steven L.Bryant, and Malgorzata Peszynska
2004 "Expanded uncertainty quantification in inverse problems: Hierarchical Bayes and empirical Bayes," Alberto Malinverno and Victoria A. Briggs
2005 "Full-resolution 3D GPR imaging," Mark P. Grasmueck, Ralf J. Weger and Heinrich Horstmeyer
2006 "The virtual source method: Theory and case study," Andrey Bakulin and Rodney W. Calvert
2006 "Properties of surface waveguides derived from separate and joint inversion of dispersive TE and TM GPR data," Jan van der Kruk, Rita Streich, and Alan Green
2006 "Induced polarization meassurements on unconsolidated sediments from a site of active hydrocarbon biodegradation," Gamal Abdel Aal, Lee Slater, and Estella Atekwana
2006 "Correlation of random wavefields: An interdisciplinary review," Eric Larose, Ludovic Margerin, Arnaud Derode, Bart van Tiggelen, Michel Campillo, Nikolai Shapiro, Anne Paul, Laurent Stehly, and Mickael Tanter
2007 "Multitransient electromagnetic demonstration survey in France," Anton Ziolkowski, Bruce A. Hobbs, and David Wright
2007 "Seismic modeling of gas chimneys," Borge Arnsten, Lars Wensaas, Helge Loseth, and Christian Hermanrud
2007 "A tutorial on complex seismic trace analysis," Arthur E. Barnes
2007 "Forward modeling of fracture-induced sonic anisotropy using a combination of borehole image and sonic logs," Adam Donald, Romain Prioul, Randy Koepsell, Zakariae El Marzouski, and Tom Bratton
2008 "Estimating quality factor and mean grain size of sediments from high-resolution marine seismic data," Luke Pinson, Timothy Henstock, Justin Dix, and Jonathan Bull
2008 "Nonlinear 3D tomographic least-squares inversion of residual moveout in Kirchhoff prestack-depth-migration common-image gathers," Frank Adler, Reda Baina, Mohamed Amine Soudani, Pierre Cardon, and Jean-Baptiste Richard
2008 "Real-time completion monitoring with acoustic waves," Andrey Bakulin, Alexander Sidorov, Boris Kashtan, and Mikko Jaaskelainen
2008 "Plane-wave migration in tilted coordinates," Guojian Shan and Biondo Biondi
Best Papers inThe Leading Edge Award
The Best Paper in The Leading Edge is selected by the Editorial Board for consideration as a candidate for the award. Recognized minimum requirements are permanent interest, form and readability, and potential for the advancement of the geophysical profession.
1999 "Recent advances in multicomponent processing," Zianhuai Zhu, Suat Altan, and Jianchao Li
2000 "Time-lapse seismic surveys in the North Sea and their business impact," Klaas Koster, Pieter W. Gabriels, Matthias Hartung, John Verbeek, and Rob Staples
2001 "The petrophysical basis for shallow-water flow prediction using multicomponent seismic data," Alan R. Huffman and John P. Castagna
2002 "Interactive seismic facies classification using textural attributes and neural networks," Brian P. West, Steven May, John E. Eastwood and Christine Rossen
2003 "Interpretation and practical applications of 4C-3D seismic data, East Cameron gas fields, Gulf of Mexico," Jay W. Nahm and Mike P. Duhon
2004 "Jotun 4D: Characterization of fluid contact movement from time-lapse seismic and production logging tool data," Wenceslau P. Gouveia Jr., David H. Johnston, Arne P. Solberg, and Morten Lauritzen
2005 "The first 3D/4-C ocean bottom seismic surveys in the Caspian Sea: Acquisition design and processing strategy," Jack Bouska and Rodney G.K. Johnston
2006 "High-resolution multicomponent seismic imaging of deepwater gas-hydrate systems," Milo M. Backus, Paul E. Murray, Bob A. Hardage, and Robert J. Graebner
2007 "Multi-azimuth and wide-azimuth seismic: Shallow to deep water, exploration to production," Brian J. Barley and Timothy Summers
2008 "Continuous seismic surveillance of Valhall Field," Jean-Paul van Gestel, Jan H. Kommedal, Olav Inge Barkved, Ivar Mundal, Roger Bakke, and Kevin D. Best
2008 "Identifying time, temperature, and mineralogical effects on chemical compaction in shales by rock physics relations," Vidar Storvoll and Ivar Brevik
Honorable Mentions (TLE)
1999 "Elastic impedance," Patrick Connolly
1999 "Improving seismic data for detailed structural interpretation," Jonny Hesthammer
2000 "Using legacy seismic data in an integrated time-lapse study: Lena Field, Gulf of Mexico," David H. Johnston, John E. Eastwood, Robert J. Vauthrin, Jung-Gi (Jane) Shyeh, and Larry R. Stanley
2001 "The next wave in reservoir monitoring: The instrumented oil field," Dr. David E. Lumley
2001 "Quantitative evaluation of the geotechnical risk associated with a stratigraphic trap in the Neuquen Basin of Argentina," Jean-Pierre Blangy
2002 "Integrated seismic and subsurface characterization of Bonga Field, offshore Nigeria," Mark Chapin, Peter Swinburn, Raphic van Der Weiden, Dieter Skaloud, Sola Adesanya, David Stevens, Chris Varley and Jacob Wilkie
2003 "3D/4C Emilio: Azimuth processing and anisotropy analysis in a fractured carbonate reservoir," Laura M. Vetri, Eugenio Loinger, James E. Gaiser, Heloise B. Lynn and Andrea Grandi
2003 "Factors affecting frequency content in preSDM packaging," Ian F. Jones and Juergen K. Fruehn
2003 "Pushing the limits of resolution at Holstein: A case history from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico," Alexander S. Calvert, Eric J. Eksstrand, John T. Etgen, Frederick J. Billette, Vikramaditya Sen, Carl J. Regone, M. Mark Truxillo, Yannick Cobo, Bill McLain, Tomm Byrd and Scott Young
2004 "Predicting the economic impact of acquisition artifacts and noise," Richard T. Houck
2004 "Seismic challenges of developing the pre-Pliocene Akhen Field offshore Nile Delta," Robert F. Marten, Mark Shann, James E. Mika, Sondra Rothe, and Yan Quist
2004 "Seismic amplitudes from low gas saturation sands," John J. O'Brien
2005 "Structural interpretation of the deepwater Gunashli Field, facilitated by 4-C OBS seismic data," Dominic M. Manley, Sean F. Mohammed, Nigel D. Robinson and Rowland W. Thomas
2005 "4D time-lapse monitoring of Chirag Field," Nigel D. Robinson, Alan J. Ford, John M. Howie, Dominic M. Manley, Martin C. Riviere, Simon Stewart, and Rowland W. Thomas
2005 "Developing the long-term seismic strategy for Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, South Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan," John M. Howie, Nigel D. Robinson, Martin C. Riviere, Thomas A. Lyon, and Dominic M. Manley
2006 "Application of spectral decomposition to detection of dispersion anomalies associated with gas saturation," Emeka Odebeatu, Jinghua Zhang, Mark Chapman, Enru Liu, and Xiang-Yang Li
2006 "Seismic interferometry—turning noise into signal," Andrew Curtis, Peter Gerstoft, Haruo Sato, Roelof Snieder, and Kees Waperaar
2006 "Marine electromagnetic methods—a new tool for offshore exploration," Steven Constable
2007 "Covenant Field: A major oil discovery in the Sevier Thrust belt of central Utah," Keith Johnson, Douglas K. Strickland, John P. Vrona, Dan Schelling, and Dave Wavrick
Best Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting
Awards are given for the best presentation of technical papers at the Annual Meeting each year.
1959 "A new marine seismic system," F. J. McDonal (General Session) 1959 "Plane compressional Voight waves," Francis Collins Jr.
1960 "Geophysical studies of basin structures along the eastern Sierra Nevada," John Healy (General Session) 1960 "Inverse convolution filters," R. B. Rice (Research Session)
1961 "The estimation of depth using gravity data," Thomas R. LaFehr (General Session) 1961 "The calculation of amplitudes of first arrivals of seismic waves from underground nuclear explosions," Glenn C. Werth (Research Session)
1962 "A seismic section of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands," George D. Hobson and A. Overton (General Session) 1962 "SH waves from explosive sources," R. L. Geyer and S. T. Martner (Research Session) 1962 "Characteristic curves for the quantitative interpretation of geophysical anomalies," F. S. Grant (Mining Session)
1963 "Sources of the geomagnetic field," L. R. Alldredge (General Session) 1963 "Solid friction as a source of seismic attenuation," J. E. White (Research Session) 1963 "Analysis for magnetite utilizing magnetic susceptibility," L. O. Bacon and P. D. Shandley (Mining Session)
1964 "Correlation techniques—A review," N. A. Anstey (General Session) 1964 "Dispersive body waves, a model study," P. C. Wuenschel (Research Session) 1964 "The distinction between induced and remanent magnetization of rocks in situ," N. E. Goldstein (Mining Session)
1965 "A comparison of deconvolution processes," John R. B. Whittlesey and F. F. Reynolds (General Session) 1965 "Deep well observations of short period seismic noise," A. J. Seriff, C. J. Velzeboer, and R. J. Haase (Research Session) 1965 "Optimum flight line direction in aeromagnetic surveying for induced dipole sources," F. E. M. Lilley (Mining Session)
1966 "A new marine processing system—Part I," William A. Schneider, Milo M. Backus, Robert J. Graebner, and Jack H. Pizante (General Session) 1966 "Recursion filters for digital processing," John L. Shanks (Research Session) 1966 "Discovery case history of the Pyramid ore bodies, Pine Point, Northwest Territories, Canada," Harold O. Seigel, J. Baird, and Henry L. Hill (Mining Session)
1967 "The recognition of multiple reflections," A. C. Armstrong (General Session) 1967 "Maximum entropy spectral analysis," John P. Burg (Research Session) 1967 "Sensors from space," William A. Fischer (Mining Session) 1967 "Data reduction, signal analysis, and accuracy of shipboard gravity meter operations," T. R. LaFehr (Oceanography Session)
1969 "Remote sensing—Geochemical techniques," A. R. Barringer 1969 "Parameter optimization for the vibroseis system," R. L. Geyer 1969 "Evaluation of inductive induced electrical polarization," G. W. Hohmann
1970 "3-D seismic method," G. G. Walton (General Session) 1970 "Least squares smoothing operators," L. C. Wood and S. N. Hockens (Research Session) 1970 "Comparison of pulse and frequency IP methods," W. A. Sauck, K. L. Zonge, and J. S. Sumner (Mining Session) 1970 "Optimal processing of surface-ship gravity data," T. R. LaFehr, M. J. Hall, and A. T. Herring (Oceanography Session)
1971 "Seismic pitfalls in interpretation," Paul Tucker and Howard Yorston (General Session) "The interrelation of statics and dynamics," John F. Bradshaw and T. M. Perry (Research Session) "Induced-polarization field phase measurements," W. J. Scott, W. M. Telford, and L. S. Collett (Mining Session) "Ideas and thoughts on deep sea anomalies with special consideration of the Gulf of Mexico," Lewis R. Tucker (Oceanography Session)
1972 "Digitized logs + digital computer = A new exploration tool, "Phillip L. Work (General Session) "Extrapolation of wave fields," Jon F. Claerbout (Research Session) "Magnetic relaxation and the electromagnetic response parameter," G. R. Olhoeft and D. W. Strangway (Mining Session) "Underwater imagery by mapping sonar," E. F. Haye (Oceanography, Engineering, and Geothermal Session)
1973 "Pulse compression by spectrum extrapolation," Dale G. Stone (General Session) 1973 "The vertical array in reflection seismology—Some experimental studies," Paul C. Wuenschel (Research Session) 1973 "Magnetic susceptibility mapping: The first year’s experience," F. S. Grant (Mining Session) 1973 "Streamer design and system configuration for marine high resolution seismology," Norman S. Neidell and Neil A. Moore (Oceanography Session)
1974 "CDP techniques and crooked traverses," Edward R. Tegland (General Session) 1974 "Reflection time through layers having lateral velocity gradients," M. Aftab Alam (Research Session) 1974 "Electromagnetic coupling, a comparison of removal techniques and the cultural coupling problem," Jeffrey C. Wynn (Mining Session) 1974 "Toward estimating a regional geothermal resource base for Iceland: A status report," John F. Hermance, Richard Thayer, and Axel Bjornsson
1975 "A new dimension in seismic displays," R. C. Farrell (General Session) 1975 "The application of the borehole gravimeter to the evaluation and exploration of oil and gas reserves," James W. Bradley (Gravity and Magnetics Session) 1975 "Automatic residual statics analysis using the general linear inverse method," Kenneth L. Larner (Research Session) 1975 "Field application of mini-computers as used in economic mineral exploration," K. L. Zonge (Mining Session) 1975 "A seismic reconnaissance of the African continental margin," Alistair Brown (Oceanographic Session) 1975 "Computer techniques applied to formation evaluation," R. H. Merkel (Special Session)
1976 "Large scale finite difference modeling," R. M. Alford, K. R. Kelly, and N. D. Whitemore 1976 "Extended arrays for marine seismic acquisition," G. T. Bennett and J. H. Lofthouse 1976 "Single-channel white noise estimators for predictive deconvolution," Jerry H. Mendel 1976 "Inversion of two-dimensional induced polarization and resistivity data," W. H. Pelton, L. Rigo, and C. M. Swift Jr.
1977 "Advances in three-dimensional seismic exploration," G. H. F. Gardner, R. V. Hetrick, J. Kotcher, and S. D. McGehearty 1977 "A new marine subbottom profiler for engineering studies," R. A. Kirby and D. R. Young II
1978 "Simulated plane-wave seismic sections, an update," M. Turhan Taner 1978 "High-resolution seismic study in the gas hills uranium district, Wyoming," James K. Applegate, P. R. Donaldson, E. B. Neitzel, and D. A. Emilia 1978 "Wave migration of seismic data from inhomogeneous media," Leslie Hatton, K. L. Larner, and B. S. Gibson
1979 "Radiation patterns of a shear wave vibroseis source in a transversely isotropic medium," James D. Robertson
1980 "Method for direct estimation of interval velocities in the near surface," Phillip H. Schultz
1981 "Three-component vertical seismic profiles: Orientation of horizontal components for shear wave analysis," James P. DiSiena 1981 "Seismic response of the evaporate sequence in the Castille Formation of the Delaware," H. Mack
1982 "Ship Shoal Block 91 field, offshore Louisiana: An evolution of geologic models to conform with current drilling activity," Rosanne Roux
1983 "Bright spot validation using comparative P-wave and S-wave seismic sections," J. D. Robertson
1984 "A magnetic survey for buried 3000-year-old basalt monuments in Mexico," Sheldon Breiner
1985 "Geophysical interpretation of Jurassic structures and norphlet deposition, Alabama state and federal waters," Nat S. Turner
1986 "Tomographic mapping of the weathered layer," Thomas J. Dillon Jr.
1987 "Seismic modeling: Recent advances and future directions," Kurt J. Marfurt
1988 "IP effects in transient EM data," Gerald W. Hohmann
1989 "Zero-velocity layer migration from irregular surfaces," Craig J. Beasley
1990 "Effects of source and receiver motion on seismic data," G. Hampson
1991 "Is there a difference between 'static' and 'dynamic' moduli of concrete?," K. H. Stokoe II
1992 "Approach to optimum slant stack and its application as a seismic noise attenuator," David J. Monk
1993 "Seismic attribute calibration using neural networks," David H. Johnston
1994 "3-D seismic exploration for the Victorio Peak treasure," J. Washbourne
1995 "Parallel computing: What we did right," Thomas A. Dickens, Louis J. Maher Jr., David Y. Wang, Dennis E. Willen, and James W. Juszczak
1996 "Detection of hydrocarbons with lithostratigraphy," Fred Hilterman, John W. C. Sherwood, Robert W. Schellhorn, Bradley L. Bankhead, and Bryan C. DeVault
1997 "Assessing the technical risk of a 4D seismic project," David E. Lumley, Ronald A. Behrens, and Zhijing (Zee) Wang
1998 "Improving prestack imaging by using a new ray selection method," David E. Nichols, Paul A. Farmer, and Gopal K. Palacharla
1999 "Fault whispers: Transmission distortions on prestack reflection seismic data," Paul J. Hatchell
2000 "Developing an exploration tool in a mature trend: A 3-D AVO case study in south Texas," Mark E. Gregg and Charles T. Bukowski, Jr.
2001 "Imaging through gas clouds: A case history from the Gulf of Mexico," Steve Knapp, Nigel Payne and Tony Johns
2002 "Atomic meshing of seismic images," Ira David Hale and Mark Jeffrey Emanuel
2003 "Kirchhoff or wave equation?", Zhiming Li, Chen-Bin Su, Wesley Bauske and Sharma V. Tadepalli
2004 "Gaussian beam migration of common-shot records," Samuel H. Gray
2005 "Reconstruction of sparsely sampled data using a high-resolution version of the focal transform," Dirk Jacob (Eric) Verschuur and A.J. Berkhout
2006 "Virtual shear check shot with airguns," Albena Alexandrova Mateeva, Andrey Bakulin, Dr. Rodney W. Calvert, and Patsy R. Jorgensen
2007 "Diffraction processing of downhole passive-monitoring data to image hydrofracture locations," Brian Fuller, Les Engelbrecht, Richard R. Van Dok, and Marc Sterling
2008 "Estimating interval shear-wave splitting from multicomponent virtual shear checkshots," Albena Alexandrova Mateeva and Andrey Bakulin
Honorable Mentions (Best Paper, Annual Meeting)
1989 "Wave-type separation in 3-D anisotropic media," J. Dellinger
1989 "3-D f-k filtering," R. R. Stewart
1989 "Seismic-stratigraphic analysis of Plio-Pleistocene depositional facies, east and west Cameron, offshore Louisiana," J. A. Pacht
1989 "Statistical examination of linear trends in a compilation of aeromagnetic data from the southwestern U.S., V. J. S. Grauch
1989 "Magnetotellurics in Papua New Guinea", K. E. Christopherson
1989 "Attenuation of water-column reverberations using pressure and velocity detectors in a water-bottom cable," F. J. Barr
1989 "Converted P-SV wave analysis of a fractured reservoir, Silo Field, Wyoming," D. Emmer
1989 "Inversion of observed gravity profiles by the ridge regression method," J. A. Lehman
1989 "Phase-modulated geotectonic imaging of the gravity field of North America," F. B. Davies
1990 "3-D depth migration via McClellan transformations," D. Hale
1990 "Radon multiple elimination, a practical methodology for land data," P. Kelamis
1990 "Bullwinkle: A unique 3-D experiment," J. J. O’Connell
1990 "Gravity corrections for earth curvature," T. R. LaFehr
1990 "Modern technology in an old area: Bay Marchand Field revisited," Roger Wright
1990 "Effect of viscoelasticity and anisotropy on amplitude-versus-offset interpretation," J. P. Blangy
1990 "Aeromagnetic structural interpretation using neural networks: A case study from the northern Denver-Julesberg Basin," J. M. Wiener
1990 "Efficient migration through irregular water-bottom topography," W. Lynn
1991 "An examination of amplitude-versus-offset attributes of a middle Devonian carbonate bank margin at the Caroline giant gas pool, Alberta," R. G. Morris
1991 "Steep-dip time migration and residual depth migration," J. L. Black
1991 "Exact two-pass full dip (90 degrees) 3-D migration for vertically inhomogeneous media," Naide Pan
1991 "Fluid saturation effects on extensional wave attenuation," C. S. Yin
1991 "Prestack frequency-wavenumber (f-k) migration in a transversely isotropic medium," A. Gonzalez
1991 "Accurate finite-difference calculations of WKBJ traveltimes and amplitudes," L. C. Pusey
1991 "Where are the fault-plane reflections?," S. MacKay
1992 "Models of seismic wave radiation from borehole sources in fast and slow formations, R. Gibson
1992 "Sensitivity analysis of cross-well electromagnetics," B. Spies
1992 "High-resolution cross-well imaging of a west Texas carbonate reservoir: Part I, data acquisition and project overview," J. M. Harris
1992 "Ergonomics in 3-D depth migration," K. Wyatt
1992 "Improving prestack f-k migration velocity analysis using residual moveout," P. Fowler
1992 "Do core sample measurements record group or phase velocity?," J. Dellinger
1992 "Seismic data integration in reservoir simulations through a multivariate statistical calibrating approach," F. Fournier
1992 "Inverse borehole coupling theory and its application to hydrophone vertical seismic profiling," T. L. Marzetta
1992 "Defining the salt with walkaway VSPs and a salt proximity survey, Auger Field, Gulf of Mexico," T. B. Barker
1993 "Multicomponent VP/VS correlation analysis," James E. Gaiser
1993 "Modeling a priori information on the velocity field in reflection tomography," D. Sinoquet
1993 "Comparison of AVO indicators: A modeling study," J. P. Castagna
1993 "Geometric constraints on seismic inversion," Roelof Versteeg
1993 "Tomography with multiple arrivals: How to handle noise corrupted data?," F. Delprat-Jannaud
1993 "Possibilities and limitations of turning ray tomography—a synthetics study," J. P. Stefani
1993 "A gravity study of Cameroon (West Africa) and geodynamical implications," Y. H. Poudom Djomani
1993 "Parameter testing of ground-penetrating radar for geological investigations in a poor-data area," Leigh Wood
1993 "Prestack elastic migration by displacement potential extrapolation and time consistent image," S. Greenhalgh
1994 "SEG Distinguished Lecture: Environmental geophysics—fad or future?," Phillip R. Romig
1994 "Subsalt imaging over the Mahogany salt sill," Davis W. Ratcliff
1994 "Stability of explicit depth extrapolation through laterally-varying media," John T. Etgen
1994 "AVO as an exploration tool: Gulf of Mexico case studies and examples," David Hall
1994 "Ultrasonic laboratory measurements of the elastic properties of shales," Brian E. Hornby
1994 "Nonbright spot AVO: Two examples," Christopher P. Ross
1994 "Effect of strain amplitude and frequency on compressional and shear wave velocities and amplitudes in sandstones," Azra Tutuncu
1994 "Heimdal monitoring I: Establishing feasibility from cores and logs," Diane Jizba
1994 "Successful estimation of Q from surface seismic data: Methodology and case studies," R. A. Clark
1994 "Laboratory observations of azimuthal velocity variations caused by borehole stress concentrations,v Kenneth W. Winkler
1995 "Accurate migration using offset-checkshot surveys," Jerome R. Krebs, Daniel R. Fara, and Allen E. Berlin
1995 "Seismic signatures of partial saturation," Rosemary J. Knight, Jack P. Dvorkin, and Amos Nur
1995 "A deterministic approach to reservoir description via 3-D poststack inversion and petrophysical analysis," Panos G. Kelamis and Nabil A. Akbar
1996 "Kirchhoff migration of seismic data compressed by matching pursuit decomposition," Bin Wang and Keh Pann
1996 "The use of ground-penetrating radar for aquifer characterization: A geostatistical approach," Rosemary Knight and Jane Rea
1996 "3-D beam steering—A powerful signal enhancement tool for noisy 3-D data," William A. Schneider, Robert Windels, Craig Artley, and Thomas R. Nickoloff
1998 "Ground truth results of 3D prestack subsalt imaging for structure and stratigraphy," William L. Abriel, Elisha A. Buckner, Joseph P. Stafani, David C. Bartel, and Greg S. Raskin
1999 "What is the best seismic attribute for quantitative seismic reservoir characterization?," Dennis A. Cooke, Arcangelo Gabriele Sena, Gregory P. O’Donnell, Tetang Muryanto, and Vaughn Ball
1999 "AVO lithology prediction using multiple seismic atributes," Daniel P. Hampson and Todor Todorov
1999 "Velocity-independent datuming of seismic data," Panos G. Kelamis, D. J. (Eric) Verschuur, A. J. Berkhout, and Kevin E. Erickson
1999 "Meren field, Nigeria: A 4D seismic case study," David E. Lumley, Alan G. Nunns, Guy Delorme, A. A. Adeogba, and Michel F. Bee
2001 "MEMS for Geophysicists," Jon Tessman, Bruce Reichert, Jim Marsh, Jeff Gannon, and Howard Goldberg
2001 "Can joint PP and PS velocity analysis manage to corner the anisotropic depthing parameter?" Francois Audebert and Pierre-Yves Granger
2001 "AVO processing: Myths and reality," Guillaume Cambois
2002 "Removing distortions caused by water velocity variations: Method for dynamic correction," Scott MacKay and Jonathan Fried
2003 "Seismic interpretation using global image segmentation," Ira David Hale and Mark Jeffrey Emanuel
2003 "A brief history and recent advances of seismic technology in Mexico," Efrain Mendez-Hernandez
2004 "Using thumpers as a seismic source," David J. Monk, Jim Ross, William J. Mooney
2005 "Azeri 4C Time-lapse design using 3D 4C OBS imaging decimation tests," Jack Bouska, John Howie, Bertram Nolte, Rodney G.K. Johnston, Richard Alexandre and Richard Walters
2006 "Detecting hydrocarbon reservoir with seabed logging in deepwater Sabah, Malaysia," Chin Keong Choo, Mark Rosenquist, Eleanor Rollett, Kamal Ghaffar, John Voon, and H.F. Wong
2007 "Assessing estimated velocity depth models: Finding the ‘error bars’ in tomographic inversion," Eric Verschuur, Dana Chitu, and Mustafa Al-Ali
2008 "Case history: Converted-wave splitting estimation and compensation," Jim Simmons
Best Poster Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting
Awards are given for the best poster presentation of technical papers at the Annual Meeting each year.
1987 "Integrated analysis of seismic data: Using wireline logs and biostratigraphy: Examples from the Texas offshore Pliocene-Pleistocene," John M. Armentrout
1988 "An expert system to assist in processing vertical seismic profiles," Peter A. Crisi
1989 "Ambient seismic field in three dimensions," Stephen P. Cole
1990 "Implementation of the optical stack method," Richard Arnold
1994 "Three-dimensional landslide structure from seismic refraction data analysis: A case study from Blind Canyon, northern Santa Ana Mountains, California," Jeffrey J. Johnston
1995 "Non-uniqueness of structural mapping from 2-D seismic," Richard T. Houck, Marvin L. Johnson, and Nancy J. House-Finch
1996 "Imaging salt structures in the Gulf of Mexico using 3-D turning wave migration," H. Sam Hussein, James F. Desler, and Gary D. Miller 1996 "A cross-dipole reciprocity “paradox,” Joe Dellinger and Bertram Nolte
1997 "Optimized design of geophysical experiments," Hansruedi Maurer and David E. Boerner
1998 "3D seismic survey design as an optimization problem," Christopher L. Liner, William D. Underwood, and Ralph R. Gobeli
1999 "The construction of subsurface illumination and amplitude maps via ray tracing," Glenn W. Bear, Chih-Ping J. Lu, Richard Shih-Ming Lu, Ian Watson, and Dennis E. Willen
2000 "A model to relate P-wave attentuation to fluid flow in fractured tight gas sands," Jorge O. Parra, Chris L. Hackert, and Pei-Cheng Xu
2001 "A look into the Val Verde Basin, Texas," Azad Khan, Catherine Ferris, Carl Burdick and Neil Grant
2002 "3D multi-arrival Kirchhoff versus wave equation migration: Application to the SEG/EAGE Salt Model," Bertrand Duquet, Sheng Xu and Gilles Lambare
2003 "Key elements in the recovery of relative amplitudes for prestack, shot record migration," Stephen M. Kelly and Jiaxiang Ren
2004 "Heavy oils: Seismic properties," Michael Lee Batzle, Brian J. Zadler, Ronny Hofmann, and De-hua Han
2005 "Estimating polarization attributes with an adaptive covrariance method in the wavelet domain," Mamadou Sanou Diallo, Mikhail Kulesh, Matthias Holschneider, Kristina Kurennaya and Frank Scherbaum
2006 "Local seismic attributes," Sergey Fomel
2007 "Seismic attributes for fault/fracture characterization," Satinder Chopra and Kurt Marfurt
2008 "Fault and natural fracture identification from multicomponent seismic at Rulison Field, Colorado," Elizabeth LaBarre and Thomas Davis
1989 "Section restoration and balancing as an aid to seismic interpretation: GSI line TWTS-83- = 13 (Regional well-tie line, offshore Galveston, Texas)," R. Ratliff 1989" Geophysical investigation of a potential meteorite impact site, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada," A. Edwards
1990 "A radial 3-D seismic survey at Exxon’s Grande Isle 16 field, Gulf of Mexico," R. R. Beebe 1990 "Seismic physical modeling using laser ultrasonics," B. Pouet and P. N. J. P. Rasolofosaon
1993 "Combining reflection tomography with layer replacement for velocity analysis of near surface reefs," Greg Beresford
1994 "The generation and measurement of electrical fields by fish: Can we learn from them?," E. John Northwood 1994 "Equivalent offset CRP gathers," John C. Bancroft 1994 "Uncertainties in depth imaging: A multitechnique approach on real data," Jean-Luc Piazza and Pascal Desegaulx 1994 "From prestack migration to migration to zero-offset," Alexander M. Popovici 1994 "The design of prestack migration-demigration operators," Luigi Zanzi and Claudio Bagaini
1996 "Seismic response to porosity and permeability variations at Priobskoye Field, western Siberia," Debra H. Phillips, Carl Sondergeld, Richard F. Sigal, Richard E. Larese, Eric S. Lewis, Peter R. Manoogian, Vladislav I. Kuznetzov, and Radiy K. Razyapov 1996 "3-D prestack Kirchhoff depth migration: From prototype production in a MPP environment," Herman Chang, Marcelo Solano, John P. VanDyke, George A. McMechan, and Duryodhan Epili
1997 "A refraction seismic field study to determine the anisotropic parameters of shales," Jennifer D. Cunningham, Donald C. Lawton, Jennifer M. Leslie 1997 "High resolution imaging in sub-horizontal well using a single well high frequency seismic system," Dominique Gehant, Jean Laurent, Patrick H. Meynier, Sylvain Serbutoviez 1997 "Velocity shift in heterogeneous media with anisotropic spatial correlation," Tapan Mukerji and Yann Samuelides
1998 "Symmetric Alford diagonalization," Joe A. Dellinger, Bertram J. Nolte, and John T. Etgen
1999 "Development of alternative interpretation models and discriminating between them using a borehole gravity survey and a walkaway checkshot survey," Terry G. Knighton, Stephen K. Western, Glenn Morton, Robert S. Fleming Jr., and Alan T. Herring
2001 "A detailed 3D seismic interpretation of a salt dome and its caprock, a case study in the northeastern Netherlands," Ed Duin
2001 "July/Ramadan: A 3D imaging project of 6 surveys," Frederic Billette and Jim Mika
2002 "Reinterpretation of the Sembakung oilfield, Kalimantan, Indonesia, utilizing modern 3D seismic data," Tony Edwards and Rick Walia
2003 "How much wind is enough?", Peter A. Crisi and Timothy J. Perrin
2004 "Longhorn: Depth migration and the birth, life, and death of a prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico," Paul J. Singer, Jean-Marc Rodriguez, and John Wu
2005 "Solving an imaging problem in Kuwait Oil Company's Minagish field using single-sensor acquisition and processing," Jonathan Anderson, Andrew Smart, Ayman Shabrawi, Adel El-Emam and Ghassan Rached
2006 "Edge preserving filtering on 3D seismic data using complex wavelet transforms," Michael Jervis
2007 "Linear amplitude patterns in Corpus Christi Bay Frio Subbasin, South Texas: Artifacts or depositional features?," Hongliu Zeng, Robert Loucks, and Ursula Hammes 2007 "Applications of nonstationary regression," Sergey Fomel
2008 "Target oriented illumination analysis using wave equation," Gustavo Catao Alves, Andre Bulcao, Djalma Manoel Soares Filho, Carlos Eduardo Theodoro, Luiz A. Santos, and Marcos Gallotti Guimaraes
Best Paper Presented by a Student at the Annual Meeting
Awards are given for the best presentation of technical papers by a student at the Annual Meeting each year.
1996 "Morrow valley fill sandstone reservoir characterization with 3-D, 3-C reflection seismology," J. Edward Blott, Thomas L. Davis, and Robert D. Benson
1997 "Shear anisotropy observations at a deep monitor reservoir," Bruce W. Mattocks, Coauthors: Thomas L. Davis and Robert D. Benson
1998 "Separating aeromagnetic anomalies using wavelet matched filters," Thomas A. Ridsdill-Smith
1999 "Robust and stable velocity analysis using the Huber function," Antoine G. Guitton
2000 "A study of near-surface seasonal variability using Rayleigh wave dispersion," Kristen S. Beaty
2000 "Multi-modal investigation of geoscientific data—adding touch and sound to 3D visualization of surface-based data," Chris Harding
2001 "Two-phase flow in complex porous media using Lattice-Boltzmann method," Youngseuk Keehm
2002 "Pressure-transient experiments and the elastic characterization of fractures," Reynaldo Cardona, Erdal Ozkan and Michael Batzle
2003 "Joint stochastic inversion of prestack seismic data and well logs for high-resolution reservoir delineation and improved production forecast," Omar J. Varela
2004 "Hybrid optimization for a binary inverse problem," Richard A. Krahenbuhl
2005 "Automatic detection of UXO magnetic anomalies using extended Euler deconvolution," Kristofer J. Davis
2006 "3D magnetic inversion for total magnetization in areas with complicated remanence," Peter G. Lelievre, Coauthors: Douglas W. Oldenburg and Nigel Phillips
2007 "Waveform tomography of marine seismic data: What can limited offset offer?," Andrew J. Brenders
2008 "Velocity analysis with multiples - NMO modeling for layered velocity structures," Tristan van Leeuwen
Awards of Merit (Best Student Paper, Annual Meeting)
1996 "Electromagnetic coupling removal from frequency domain IP data in 2D environments," Partha S. Routh and Douglas W. Oldenburg
1997 "The transition zone between effective medium theory and ray theory for the propagation of electromagnetic waves," Christina Y. Chan
1998 "Improving seismic resolution with nonstationary deconvolution," Alana R. Schoepp, Coauthor: Gary Margrave
1998 "Focusing of inversion images," Oleg N. Portniaguine, Coauthor: Michael S. Zhdanov
1999 "Multi-configuration ground penetrating radar data," Jean-Paul Van Gestel
1999 "Wave-equation migration velocity analysis," Paul Constantin Sava
2000 "Approximate reflection coefficients of P-S waves in anisotropic media," Petr Jilek
2000 "Filter bank deconvolution of seismic data with application to compression and denoising," Laurent Duval
2001 "Amplitude-preserved common image gathers by wave-equation migration," Paul Sava
2001 "Shear-wave velocity dependence on fluid saturation," Reynaldo Cardona
2001 "Optimization of the shape of Gaussian beams," Karel Zacek
2002 "Analysis of high resolution aeromagnetic anomalies from the south-central Alberta Foothills, Canada," Christian Abaco, Don Lawton and Deborak Spratt
2003 "Noncontacting ultrasonics for visualizing and exploiting multiple scattering," Alison E. Malcolm
2003 "3D refraction migration for depth imaging of West Africa salt walls," Connie J. VanSchuyver
2004 "Wavefield extrapolation in Riemannian coordinates," Paul C. Sava
2005 "Multicomponent georadar imaging that corrects for total-field radiation," Rita Streich
2006 "Geomechanical modeling as a reservoir characterization tool at Rulison Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado," Shannon M. Higgins, Coauthors: Thomas L. Davis and Tom Bratton
2007 "Investigating active deepwater sedimentation near a gas-hydrate system with high-resolution seismic data," Pete A. Christianson
2008 "Iterative reconstruction algorithm for nonlinear operators," Robert A. Eso
Best Poster Paper Presented by a Student at the Annual Meeting
Awards are given for the best poster presentation of technical papers by a student at the Annual Meeting each year.
1995 "Identifying noise in seismic data from the Gippsland Basin (Australia)," Jarrod C. Dunne
1996 "Determination of basement depth and Paleozoic thickness using an integrated geophysical approach in the northern Arabian platform, eastern Syria," Graham E. Brew, Robert K. Litak, Dogan Seber, Muawia Barazangi, Anwar Al-Imam, and Tarif Sawaf
1997 "A refraction seismic field study to determine the anisotropic parameters of shales," Jennifer M. Leslie Coauthors: Don C. Lawton and Jennifer D. Cunningham
1998 "Comparison of imaging in anisotropic media using P-wave and S-wave data," M. Graziella Kirtland Grech Coauthors: J. Helen Isaac and Don C. Lawton
1999 "Analysis of seismic wave dynamics by means of integral presentation and method of discontinuitie," Anton A. Duchkov
2000 "Combined vertical-incidence and wide-angle seismic study of deepwater bright spot reflections," Christian Müller
2001 (No award given for this year)
2002 "A preliminary study of salt flank illumination at Vinton Dome, Louisiana: Do we need lateral wavefield continuation?", Cory J. Hoelting, Warren S. Duncan, Mariana Gherasim, Kurt J. Marfurt and Hua-Wei Zho
2003 "Passive seismic imaging in the presence of white noice sources: Numerical simulations," Deyan S. Draganov
2004 "Effects of porestructure on sonic velocity in carbonates," Ralf J. Weger
2005 "Plane-wave attenuation anisotropy in orthorhombic media," Yaping Zhu
2006 "Scattering regimes and the influence of heterogeneity on the seismic detection of mineral exploration targets," Elizabeth L'Heureux
2007 "Suppression of ambient seismic noise in 2D arrays using multichannel Wiener filter," Jingbo Wang
2008 "Adaptive F-X interpolation of curved seismic events via exponentially weighted recursive least squares (EWRLS)," Mostafa Naghizadeh
Awards of Merit (Best Student Poster Paper, Annual Meeting)
1996 "Electromagnetic coupling removal from frequency domain IP data in 2D environments", Partha S. Routh and Douglas W. Oldenburg
1997 "The transition zone between effective medium theory and ray theory for the propagation of electromagnetic waves," Christina Y. Chan
1998 "Land vertical cable acquisition and anlysis: Results from the Blackfoot high-resolution 3-C seismic survey," Jitendra S. Gulati Coauthors: Robert R. Stewart, Brian H. Hoffe, and Henry C. Bland
1999 "AVO analysis for converted waves," Katiusca del Valle Álvarez
2000 (No award given this year)
2001 (No award given this year)
2002 "The kernel trick: using linear algorithms to solve nonlinear geophysical problems," Heidi Kuzma
2003 "Propagator inversion for shallow structure," Robbert Van Vossen
2003 "Using seismic attributes as a QC for velocity model building — Vinton Dome, Louisiana," Warren S. Duncan
2004 "Non-stretch stacking in the tau-p domain: Exploiting long-offset arrivals for sub-basalt imaging," Hassan Masoomzadeh
2005 "Mapping geology and structure using multispectral and hyperspectral data and evaluating topographic correction methods: Case study, Salmon River Mountains of east-central Idaho," Yardenia Martinez, Schuhab Khan, Paul Link, and Nancy Glenn
2006 "Application of 3D electrical resistivity imaging in an underground potash mine," Robert A. Eso, Coauthors: Douglas W. Oldenburg and Nigel Phillips
2007 "Investigation of core data reliability to support time-lapse interpretation in Campos Basin, Brazil," Marcos Grochau
2008 "Visualizing spectral decomposition using the view locked color image grand tour," Bradley C. Wallet
