2009 SEG election nominations | Klaas Koster
Klaas Koster holds a PhD in geophysics from Delft in The Netherlands. His first job was with Amoco in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where he initially worked on multicomponent acquisition. He subsequently joined a team of Amoco and Pemex geophysicists to find solutions for some of Mexico’s seismic data quality challenges. Koster’s next assignment was to the Denver, USA, office where he worked on 3D acquisition and processing. He also worked with Schlumberger colleagues on early applications of the dipole-sonic. Koster started working on quantitative interpretation and seismic inversion for Shell in 1994. In this position, he worked on fields from Greenland to Nigeria to Peru and New Zealand. In 1997, he moved to Norway where he was part of the multidisciplinary team responsible for time-lapse monitoring of Draugen. In 2000, Koster joined Woodside, where he became head of quantitative interpretation. This position allowed frequent interaction with fellow geophysicists at Curtin University and CSIRO. When he became head of subsurface technology implementation with Shell in New Orleans in 2004, his team also covered geomechanics and geochemistry. He recently joined Apache in Aberdeen as senior technical advisor responsible for subsurface activities in the Forties Field.
Koster joined SEG in 1986. He was elected president of the Australian SEG in 2003 and vice president of SEG in 2004. He was awarded Life Membership in 2008 and is the recipient of a Best Paper in TLE award. He has chaired the Governance Review, Constitution and Bylaws, International Showcase, and Meetings Review and Planning committees.
Position statement In my discussions with members of the SEG Council, it has become clear that they are keen to play a greater role. At the moment, the agenda for the annual Council meeting is dominated by matters dictated by SEG’s constitution and bylaws. I’m keen to provide additional opportunities for Council members to influence decisions about issues relevant to the members they represent. As membership becomes more diverse, SEG has to cover an ever-expanding range of geophysical methods at all levels—from simply raising awareness to in-depth discussion. Other societies—like SPE and EAGE, but also CSEG and SEGJ or AGU and NSG—all have material that is relevant to SEG members. This is an opportunity for SEG to efficiently increase its coverage of the entire field. In addition to developing proprietary content, SEG can improve access to relevant activities and content available from other societies. I have had the privilege to work with dedicated SEG members and staff in many capabilities. It would be an honor to ensure as president that SEG will continue to play a significant role in the life of geophysicists wherever they are located; just as it has in mine. | | Brad Birkelo
Brad Birkelo, a 24-year member of SEG, has served the Society in a number of capacities over the years. He was secretary-treasurer in 2006–07, chaired the Finance and Audit Committee in 2007–08, and is vice-chairman of the Strategic Finance Policy Committee for 2007–09. He served as chairman of the DISC Subcommittee (2003–05) and the SEG/EAGE Joint DISC Committee (2004–05), and was a member of the Committee on Nominations (1999–2001). He is currently a member of the Continuing Education, Membership, Online Technology, and Online Content committees. Birkelo previously served as president of the Permian Basin Geophysical Society (1998–99). He is an active member of SEG, AAPG, EAGE, and the Geophysical Society of Houston.
Birkelo received his MS in geophysics from the University of Kansas (1987) and degrees from the University of Minnesota (BS geology in 1982 and BS geophysics in 1983). He recently joined Spectraseis as principal geophysicist where he will work on integrating low-frequency passive seismic data with conventional oil and gas data. He is an owner of Digital Prospectors, an oil and gas consulting firm, and managed their Houston, USA, office for the past 10 years. Prior to Digital Prospectors, Birkelo worked for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA, and Odessa, Texas, USA, where he processed and interpreted seismic data on numerous exploration and development projects. He has also worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division; Kansas Geological Survey; Minnesota Geological Survey; and Delta Environmental Consultants. He is a licensed professional geoscientist in Texas. Position statement The SEG mission is to promote the science of applied geophysics, which it does in two primary ways, education and networking. The primary challenge in front of SEG is to continue to deliver these services to an increasingly diverse membership effectively and efficiently. We as a Society need to hold on to our core values while allowing our methods and our organization to change to accommodate our changing membership. We are not becoming a global organization; we are a global organization. Executive committees for the next several years will be making difficult decisions to best operate SEG in financially challenging times. Many years of strong member support and prudent leadership have made SEG strong. Two of the executive committee’s primary goals should be to ensure it remains strong financially and relevant to all its members. SEG can help remain relevant by finding ways to expand our educational offerings, effectively using SEG Online to reach all members globally, and supporting students who constitute our second largest member group. I am honored to be asked to run for SEG president-elect and, if elected, I will rely on my SEG experience to help chart a wise course for the future. |
Lee Bell
Lee Bell received his BA in physics (1970) from the University of California, San Diego, USA, and his MS (1973) and PhD (1977) in geophysics from Stanford University. He joined Mobil R&D in Dallas, USA, as a research geophysicist and then Digicon as managing director of the Aramco Research Group (1981). Bell started the data processing company Entropic Geophysical in 1984 and merged it with Geosignal in 1991, where he served as vice president and then president. After Geosignal was acquired in 1997, Bell became vice president of technology for Western Geophysical. After the formation of WesternGeco, he managed its Reservoir Services Division. In 2004, Bell accepted the position of president of Geophysical Development Corporation and in 2007 became the chief geophysicist of the parent company, Geokinetics.
Bell has been a member of SEG since 1972. He has authored and coauthored numerous presentations for the annual and regional meetings in the fields of signal processing and inversion. He has served as an SEG district representative, is currently the treasurer of the Board of Directors of SEG Global, Inc. (a for-profit subsidiary of SEG), and also serves on the EAGE-SEG Collaboration Committee. He is a member of EAGE and the Geophysical Society of Houston.
Position statement
The role of SEG has been the promotion of new technology and the continuing education of its members through meetings, publications, workshops, and Internet resources. In recent years, SEG has branched out to actively recruit new and younger members through its globalization efforts and has transformed into a truly diverse and dynamic international organization. Now, SEG brings the skills and knowledge from a multitude of cultures into not only the fields of hydrocarbon exploration but broader issues such as groundwater, CO2 sequestration, and other environmental concerns.
As a member of SEG Global, Inc., I have actively supported this ongoing transformation, and as a member of the EAGE-SEG Collaboration Committee, I have promoted education not only for established geophysicists but for those early in their professional careers. In addition, at the first SEG General Assembly, I encouraged SEG’s efforts to more closely cooperate with the associated societies to recruit new members and advance joint educational programs and technical gatherings.
I believe that my experience in the geophysical sciences—from producing it to managing companies, along with my SEG activity to promote the dissemination of science—will benefit our organization in the navigation through these difficult times. | | David Lumley
David Lumley has spent over 25 years as a practicing geophysicist in many areas of direct interest to SEG members, with a focus on energy and environment applications. This includes industry operations and research roles at Western Geophysical, Mobil, Arco, and Chevron, adjunct positions at Stanford (PhD in 1995) and the University of Southern California, and is now at the University of Western Australia where he holds the inaugural Woodside-Chevron chair and is director of the new Petroleum Geoscience Centre. Lumley has also spent the past decade as a business owner, including cofounder, president, and CEO of 4th Wave Imaging, a geophysical company specializing in 4D seismic technology, which was acquired by Fugro in 2007. Lumley has been a member of SEG for 25 years and has served as an associate editor of Geophysics, on several technical program committees for the Annual Meeting, the Research Committee, a cofounder of the CO2 Sequestration Subcommittee, and as chairman of several SEG workshops including the annual Summer Research Workshop (twice). Lumley has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SEG, SPE, and AAPG, and has received several professional society awards including the SEG Clarence Karcher Award for his pioneering work on developing the 4D seismic technique. Lumley has served as an adviser to the US National Academy of Science and is a member of the Geological Survey of Western Australia’s advisory committee on petroleum exploration and development.
Position statement
Over the past 25 years, it has been my pleasure to donate time and expertise to SEG—whether technical, academic, or business—and I look forward to serving on the executive committee as first vice president should I be elected. My main priorities are:
- Business first. With the dramatic shift in the global economy, there will be big challenges ahead (and thus new opportunities!) for SEG, and I plan to use my business ownership skills to help provide careful stewardship of the Society’s strategic mission and resources.
- Teaching and research. It is imperative that as a Society we continue to enhance the recruiting and development of future scientists and engineers to renew our field. I plan to use my experience and connections as a researcher and educator to assist SEG in its mission to help develop the next generation of geophysicists.
- Energy and environment. As a Society we will increasingly need to get smarter about developing our energy sources (hydrocarbon or otherwise), while simultaneously finding better ways to protect our precious environment. I plan to promote a balanced view of energy and environment within SEG.
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Klaus Holliger
Klaus Holliger received MSc (1987) and PhD (1990) degrees in geophysics from ETH Zurich and a postgraduate degree in economics (2000) from the University of London. After an extended postdoc at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA, he joined ETH’s newly founded applied and environmental geophysics group in 1994. He now holds a chaired professorship in applied geophysics at the University of Lausanne and currently serves as vice-dean of research.
Holliger has been an SEG member since 1995 and was secretary of the Near-Surface Geophysics Section from 2003 through 2005. He has been serving as an associate editor of Geophysics since 2004 and recently became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Geophysics. Holliger has broad scientific interests and has worked in a variety of fundamental and applied research domains. To date, he has co-authored more than 90 peer-refereed papers, 18 of which were published in Geophysics. Currently, his main research interest is the emerging and inherently interdisciplinary field of hydrogeophysics. He co-organized SEG’s first workshop on this topic in 2006 and presently serves as editor for a hydrogeophysics special issue to be published in Near Surface Geophysics.
Position statement
Exploration geophysics is an increasingly globalized endeavor, and the backgrounds of those involved in the field are now more diverse than ever. SEG plays a pivotal role in the creation and dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge in this field and hence must adapt to this evolution and seek to capitalize on the associated opportunities. In my view, important issues that arise in the given context and that I would like to work on, should I get elected, concern (1) the ongoing enhancement of our scientific and educational efforts and (2) the development and expansion of our interactions with related societies.
I fully realize that these are complex, long-standing problems, and I do not claim to have any ready solutions. Based on my background and experience, I am, however, keenly aware of the issues at stake and can make positive contributions to corresponding team efforts. I am honored to have been nominated for this position, and I would be delighted to serve you as a member of SEG’s executive committee. | | John H. Bradford
John Bradford received BS degrees in both physics and engineering physics from the University of Kansas in 1994 and was named outstanding senior in both disciplines. He attended Rice University from 1994 to 1999 where he received a PhD in geophysics and held a US EPA STAR graduate fellowship. From 1995 to 1999, Bradford held the position of research scientist at the Houston Advanced Research Center and worked on topics ranging from utility detection with GPR to spectral decomposition for seismic exploration. He worked as a research scientist at the University of Wyoming (1999–2001) and then as a research professor at the Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface (CGISS) at Boise State University from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, Bradford joined the academic faculty in the Department of Geosciences at BSU where he currently holds the rank of associate professor. He served as CGISS director from 2006 to 2009. He has worked extensively in methodology development for near-surface seismic and GPR applications with emphasis on imaging, attenuation, offset-dependent reflectivity, and 3D field methods and analysis. He has published on a diverse array of topics that includes hydrocarbon detection, hydrogeophysics, glaciology, and polar ecology. Bradford has organized a number of workshops and technical sessions at national and international meetings. He has served as associate editor for Geophysics (2005–2008) and currently serves on the advisory and publication committees for SEG’s Near-Surface Section as well as the Hydrogeophysics Technical Committee for AGU.
Position statement Unprecedented challenges face the global society including climate change, water resource depletion, and the critical issue of energy resources. Geophysics is a scientific discipline that will play a crucial role in understanding and finding solutions for many of these problems. I believe that my broad scientific background provides a unique base from which I can draw to communicate the important role of geophysics to government agencies, environmental regulators, and concerned citizens groups. I will: - Promote the science of applied geophysics within government agencies—an important ongoing effort to ensure that universities have the resources necessary to provide rigorous training for coming generations of geophysicists
- Promote Geoscientists Without Borders and work to facilitate communication and collaboration for this endeavor within academia and our international offices
- Work to strengthen existing ties and build new understanding between industry-based exploration geophysics and the academic community
- Recognize that SEG is truly an international organization and work to strengthen bonds with our sister societies abroad
It is an honor to have been nominated to run for the position of SEG second vice president and, if elected, I will do my utmost to serve the Society well. |
Wafik B. Beydoun
 Wafik B. Beydoun, an SEG member since 1981, has co-organized various SEG research workshops and meeting sessions, promoted SEG internationally (e.g., invited SEG President Brian Russell in 1999 to Angola to initiate contacts with the local chapter), and co-organized international conferences in Istanbul and Angola. More recently, he has been active in SEG’s International Showcase and Global Theater.
Beydoun is the business development manager for Total’s E&P Technology and R&D, with worldwide interactions in E&P technologies encompassing academia, R&D labs/institutes, service companies, and other oil and gas companies. His previous assignments for Total include geoscience research in the United Kingdom, operations and interpretation projects in France, chief geophysicist and then southern area exploration manager in Angola. Following the merger of TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine, he was appointed manager of Total’s Geophysical Operations and Technology Department in France, overseeing worldwide geophysical operations and technology. In 2003, he became senior negotiator in Total’s E&P New Ventures and Asset Management Division. Beydoun’s first job was at Arco’s Research and Technical Services in Plano, Texas (1987–1991). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an MSc in Earth sciences (1982) and a PhD in geophysics (1985). He has over 70 publications and communications. To summarize Beydoun’s global and technical exposure: He has lived, studied, and/or worked in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and in Asia. For the past six years, he has been evaluating and promoting emerging technologies and processes along the E&P value chain, including geophysics. Position statement SEG membership has more than doubled in 15 years—with two thirds of the members residing outside the US. The Society is more active worldwide than ever. As Global Affairs Committee chairman (1994–1996), I had the opportunity to lead and implement the Society’s vision of a global geophysical community. GAC’s current geographically oriented structure was set up then. The first SEG International Showcase was also “tested” in Houston in 1995 by GAC and the Annual Meeting Steering Committee. Among the aspects of our Society I most value are its continuously improving service to all geophysicists, volunteerism, support of its members, and the transparency of its business. These key qualities drive SEG in fulfilling its mission as the premier international society for applied geophysicists. Should I proudly serve as a member of your executive committee, my interest would be in increasing our global effectiveness and local impact by further “shrinking” our world by developing faster local education/communication programs and regional offices; becoming the global reference in helping applied geophysicists manage career transitions (e.g., for juniors, seniors, in the US, and between countries); strengthening synergies with EAGE; and increasing the number of active members and their involvement in the Society. | | Arthur C. H. Cheng
Arthur C. H. Cheng is a senior rock physics advisor at OHM/Rock Solid Images and a director at Cambridge GeoSciences. He received a BSc with distinction in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1973 and an ScD in geophysics from MIT in 1978. He was one of the co-founders of the Earth Resources Laboratory at MIT in 1982 and project leader of the MIT Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium from 1982–1996. In 1996, he joined Western Atlas (now Baker Atlas) as its manager of Acoustic Science. He served in various technical managerial roles at Western Atlas and Baker Hughes Inteq. Since 2000, he has been a founder and director
in Cambridge GeoSciences, consultants in borehole geophysics and petrophysics. He has published over 90 technical papers, and co-authored three patents and two books on borehole acoustics. He currently serves on the board of directors for Nexus GeoSciences and New England Research.
Cheng has been an SEG member since 1974. Currently, he is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the SEG SEAM Corporation, associate editor for Geophysics in Borehole Geophysics and Rock Properties, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the SEG Beijing Office. Previously he had chaired the Research Committee (2004–2006) and the Student Section-Academic Liaison Committee
(1996–1998); served on the SEG Council (1990–1993) and the Annual Meeting Technical Program Committee in 1993, 1999, and 2008. He has helped organize over 20 SEG summer, international, and postconvention workshops and symposia.
Position statement
SEG’s mission is to promote the science of geophysics and the education of applied geophysicists. There are several initiatives already undertaken by current and previous executive committees, and I look to help continue and expand these initiatives. SEG opened the Beijing office last year, and will open other regional offices in the near future. We need to provide support to make sure these offices serve the needs of our global membership. In particular, we need to organize more international meetings, workshops, and continuing
education courses. We have done very well with our Honorary Lecture program, but more work still needs to be done, especially with regard to continuing education short courses. I was involved with the formation of SEAM, and we are beginning to see the results of that effort. I will work to continue and expand cooperative geophysical research through such efforts. |
Anna Shaughnessy
Anna Shaughnessy’s educational background is in oceanography with an emphasis on marine geophysics. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and her MSc is from MIT. Shaughnessy started her career with Mobil Oil in 1980 and has since worked for Saudi Aramco, Texaco, Kerr-McGee, and Anadarko. She has had the opportunity to work in many sectors within the energy industry, from new ventures and exploration to technology, strategic planning, and business improvement. Her assignments have allowed her to travel throughout the world and live in Dallas, New Orleans, and Houston within the US as well as in Saudi Arabia and Norway.
Shaughnessy has been a member of SEG since 1980. She became a member of the SEAM Audit Committee in the beginning of 2008. During 2008, she was also a member of the Board of Directors for SEG Global, Inc. This SEG affiliate was responsible for driving the opening of the international SEG office in China. She was also an active member of the Foundation Campaign Cabinet that raised over US$17 million for SEG.
Position statement
The last two years of active participation on SEG committees have given me a great appreciation for what the Society does, how it does it, and what new opportunities and challenges lay ahead. I have taken great pleasure in helping to drive several key SEG initiatives and have truly enjoyed working with many dedicated fellow Society members.
During this work, I have also been reminded that the success of any team effort depends greatly on the commitment and energy of each team member. I am honored to be nominated for secretary-treasurer of SEG and would look forward to committing the time and effort necessary for this position, should I be elected. The current global economic environment makes it essential that we as a Society understand our financial commitments, our strategy, and goals for the future. We need to ensure that we remain in a strong financial position in order to fulfill our aspiration to “Advancing geophysics today—inspiring geoscientists for tomorrow.” | | Thomas A. Smith
Tom Smith has been a member of SEG since 1967. He joined as an undergraduate student while at Iowa State University where he received BS and MS degrees in geology. His MS research was a shallow refraction investigation of the Manson astrobleme. In 1971, he joined Chevron Geophysical as a processing geophysicist and resigned in 1980. During that time, he took courses in geophysics at the University of Houston and received his PhD in geophysics under Fred Hilterman in 1981. He started a geophysical consulting practice and taught five-day seminars in seismic interpretation, seismic acquisition, and seismic processing through OGCI. He incorporated Seismic Micro-Technology for seismic interpretation software in 1984. As the KINGDOM software grew in popularity, Smith acquired extensive business and leadership skills. He eventually had to drop consulting (15 years) and teaching (14 years). SEG awarded Smith the SEG Enterprise Award in 2000. ISU awarded him the Distinguished Alumnus Lecturer Award in 1996 and Citation of Merit for National and International Recognition in 2002. SMT received a GSH Corporate Star Award in 2005. Smith has assisted several SEG Annual Meeting committees. In 2007, he and his wife sold the majority position of the company to a group of investors, but he retains a position on the Board of Directors. In 2008, he founded Applied Geophysical Research where he and several other geophysicists are investigating fundamental geophysical problems. Smith is also a member of GSH, EAGE, SIPES, AAPG, HGS, Sigma XI, SSA, and AGU.
Position statement
Our current strong financial position has been aptly documented in the April 2009 issue of TLE. We are fortunate to have at this time a strong financial position and SEG officers and staff who are aggressively addressing our Society operations in light of the worldwide economic crisis. To meet our current and future needs, I suggest placing emphasis on the following areas:
- Steady and careful financial planning that addresses both long-term needs and near-term flexibility
- Coordination with the Foundation to ensure that we are balancing our resources for optimum efficiency
- Focusing on our core mission to promote geophysics and educate applied geophysicists through efforts to expand our worldwide membership, fund additional scholarships, and promote continuing education which most effectively addresses the needs of our members
- Maintain no debt by improvement of operations and promotion of the benefits of our Society
- Grow SEG Online
As mentioned in my biography, I bring broad experience in industry, training, business practices, and leadership to the position with a commitment to solve problems and at the end of the term leave the Society in better shape than before. |
Vladimir Grechka
Vladimir Grechka received his PhD (1990) in geophysics from the Institute of Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia. He came to the United States as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Dallas. Then he worked as a postdoc at the Center for Wave Phenomena, Colorado School of Mines. He later became a research associate professor and a co-leader of the Center for Wave Phenomena. In 2001, he joined Shell E&P in Houston, Texas, USA.
Grechka’s work, in both academia and industry, covers various aspects of seismic wave propagation in anisotropic media, velocity analysis, anisotropic parameter estimation, reservoir simulation and monitoring, microseismic, VSP, and fracture characterization. To date, he has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and one book. He also co-teaches with Ilya Tsvankin the SEG Continuing Education Course, “Seismic Anisotropy: Basic Theory and Applications in Exploration and Reservoir Characterization.”
Grechka has served on the editorial board of Geophysics since 2001, first as associate editor on Seismic Anisotropy and later as assistant editor. While serving as assistant editor, he co-edited the “Rainbow in The Earth” and “Seismic Anisotropy” special sections of Geophysics.
Position statement
Having been on the Geophysics editorial board for eight years, I am honored to be nominated as SEG editor. If elected, I will use my knowledge and experience to focus on the following objectives during the next two years:
- Maintaining the reputation of Geophysics as a world-class technical journal
- Further reducing turnaround time and making Geophysics more user-friendly for readers, authors, and editors
- Continuing the efforts of previous SEG editors to attract papers from SEG membership and outside on a broad range of subjects of applied geophysics
- Promoting supplements, special issues, and sections of Geophysics and stimulating cross-fertilization between different disciplines
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Colin Farquharson
Colin Farquharson is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received a BSc in geophysics from the University of Edinburgh in 1990 and a PhD in geophysics from the University of British Columbia in 1995. He held postdoctoral fellowship and research associate positions, and a limited-term assistant professor position, at the University of British Columbia before joining the Inco Innovation Centre at Memorial University in 2005 as a research associate. He became an assistant professor at Memorial University in 2008. His research interests include numerical modeling and inversion of geophysical electromagnetic data. He is a member of the SEG’s Mining and Geothermal Committee. | | Andre Pugin
Andre Pugin joined the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa in 2006 and is leading research projects using 3-C high-resolution seismic reflection for groundwater reservoir modeling and earthquake civil engineering applications. He received his PhD in 1989 at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and then obtained postdoc grants at the University of Toronto, ETH-Zurich, and at the University of Geneva. Due to his broad understanding of geological processes and geophysical methods, he has been involved as a consultant or as a researcher in various parts of the world, including Canada, Nepal, the Azores, Italy, France, and Germany. In 2000, he joined the Illinois State Geological Survey where he developed very high-resolution shear-wave reflection methods using landstreamers and various source configurations. He is a member of SEG, AGU, the Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society, and is a fellow of the Geological Society of America. |
Jesse Costa
Jesse Costa is an adjoint professor in the Faculty of Geophysics at the Federal University of Para, Brazil. He received a diploma in physics (1983) and a doctoral degree in geophysics (1993) from the Federal University of Para. He was a summer student at Schlumberger Cambridge Research in 1991 and 1992. He spent 1994 and 1995 as a postdoctoral student in the Stanford Tomography Project at Stanford University. His fields of interest include seismic anisotropy, tomography, and seismic imaging. He is an active member of SEG. He is also member of EAGE and the Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf). | | Jörg Schleicher
Jörg Schleicher holds an MSc (1990) in physics, and a PhD (1993) in geophysics from Karlsruhe University, Germany. From 1990 to 1995, he was employed as a research fellow at KU’s Geophysical Institute. From 1995 to 1996, he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computing of State University of Campinas in Brazil with joint grants from the Brazilian Council for Technology and Development and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since October 1996, he has been an associate professor for applied mathematics at IMECC/UNICAMP. In 1998, he received SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award. He is a co-author of Seismic True-Amplitude Imaging, published by SEG, and more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed scientific international journals, the majority in GEOPHYSICS. His research interests include all forward and inverse seismic methods, in particular amplitude-preserving imaging methods, velocity analysis, ray tracing, and model-independent stacking. Schleicher joined SEG in1993 and became an active member in 2001. He has been a member of the Online Governing Board (now split into Online Contents and Online Technology Committees) since 2004. He is also a member of EAGE, SBGf, SBMAC, and DGG. |
Irina O. Bayuk
Irina O. Bayuk received an M.S. (1981) in applied mathematics from the Department of Applied Mathematics of Moscow Aviation Institute and a PhD (1990) in geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include theoretical modeling of effective elastic and transport properties of porous/cracked rocks and their upscaling. She is a leading researcher of the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences and consults in scientific projects for Devon Energy.
Marwan Charara
Marwan Charara, research program manager of Schlumberger Moscow Research and principal research scientist. After receiving his MS and PhD degrees in geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in 1996, he joined Schlumberger Riboud Product center (France) where he worked and supervised various projects: borehole seismic interpretation, reservoir monitoring and control, permeability logging and wireless telemetry. In 2006, he moved to Schlumberger Moscow Research where he is in charge of research program dedicated to multi-physics numerical modeling and full waveform inversion. He holds four U.S. patents and has published more than 20 papers in international scientific journals. | | Boris Kashtan
Boris Kashtan is a professor of geophysics at St. Petersburg State University in Russia. He received his PhD (1981) and Doctor of Science degree (1987) in geophysics of the same university. Kashtan is an expert in advanced problems of seismic wave propagation in anisotropic and complex media. Currently he is head of the Laboratory of Dynamic Elastic Media in the Department of Physics of the Earth of St. Petersburg State University. He is also a leader of the St. Petersburg Shell Cluster that performs advanced geophysical studies. He is a member of EAGE and SEG.
Namaz Yusubov
Namaz Yusubov has been a member of SEG since 1994 and an active member of SEG since 2006. He graduated from Azerbaijan Oil Academy with a specialty as a Mining Engineer Geophysicist in1970. From 1970 to 1978 worked as a geophysicist-programmer. He led geophysical data processing and interpretation work from 1979 to 1986 and operated as a senior geophysicist in the Geophysics Department from 1986 to 1988. He has been the head of the Exploration Geophysics Department Since 1992. His scientific activity mainly targets such problems as seismic stratigraphic analysis and geological section forecasting in the basis of seismic records filtering (convolution and deconvolution) and spectral analysis, dynamic and kinematic parameters analysis of seismic wave area, seismic geological modeling. He has been working with the geological and seismic data interpretation in last ten years. He is author of one scientific monograph, four books and 56 articles. He received his PhD in 1986 and the doctor of geology and mineralogy sciences in 2006. |
| Samir Abdelmoaty Samir Abdelmoaty received Life Membership in SEG for his contribution to the Global Affairs Committee (GAC) in addition to leading and organizing SEG conferences in Cairo. Samir served as the program chairman of IPTC 2007 in Dubai. Samir received his BSc degree from Cairo University (1971), followed by a Diploma and MSc in geophysics. Samir worked with the Academy of Scientific Research, GUPCO, BG Egypt, and in 1993 became the president of PGS Tensor Middle East. In 1995, he joined BP Egypt (then Amoco) where he is now the deputy exploration performance unit leader. Samir has served as SEG District Representative, chairman of the Global Affairs Committee, and currently is president of the Egyptian Geophysical Society. Samir was selected by SEG to be the 2009 Honorary Lecturer for Africa and Middle East. | | |
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