2014 Honors and Awards Nominations One of SEG's great traditions is the special recognition of individuals and organizations for their contributions to geophysics and to the Society. The 2013-2014 Honors and Awards Committee would like to solicit your nominations for deserving recipients to be honored at the 2014 Annual Meeting. The SEG International Exhibition and 84th Annual Meeting will be held 26-31 October 2014. In order to guarantee that all deserving individuals and organizations receive consideration for appropriate recognition, please submit all nominations by 1 January 2014 to allow the Honors and Awards Committee enough time for appropriate investigation, deliberation, and recommendations to the SEG Board of Directors. Nominations should be sent to: SEG Honors and Awards Committee c/o SEG Business Office/Cindy Blackshear P. O. Box 702740 Tulsa, OK 74170-2740, USA Nominations may also be sent by fax +1.918.497.5560 or by email. 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 email. Thank you very much for your assistance in making SEG's Honors and Awards Program a meaningful and representative activity of the Society. Outstanding Educator Award (New award approved 15 May 2013) | The Outstanding Educator Award honors individuals for excellence in geophysics education, and is awarded to a person who, in the unanimous opinion of the Honors and Awards Committee and the Board, merits such recognition, based on his or her educational qualities and contributions that may include: - Outstanding contributions in teaching of geophysics classes at any educational level;
- Impact on education programs by commitment to excellence in geophysics education;
- Special dedication to advising, supervising, and mentoring students;
- Providing extraordinary inspiration to the next generation of geophysics professionals.
A maximum of two awards can be given each year. | | 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 2010 Anthony R. Barringer 2010 M. Nafi Toksöz 2011 Amos M. Nur 2012 George A. McMechan | | 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 2010 Michael S. Bahorich 2010 Walter S. Lynn 2010 Professor Bjørn Ursin 2011 Peter M. Duncan 2011 Öz Yilmaz 2011 Roel Snieder 2012 Kurt J. Marfurt 2012 Mark D. Zoback | 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 Öz 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 2010 Gerard Thomas Schuster 2010 Kees Wapenaar 2012 Dr. Yu Zhang | 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 2010 No award 2011 Chen-Bin Su, Wes Bauske, and Zhiming Li 2012 KMS Technologies | 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 2010 Samuel Gray 2010 Arthur Benjamin Weglein 2011 Norman Daniel Whitmore, Jr. 2012 Xianhuai Zhu 2012 Jie Zhang | 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 2010 Deyan Draganov 2010 Jeffrey Shragge 2011 Dr. Mostafa Naghizadeh 2011 Ramesh (Neelsh) Neelamani 2011 Guojian Shan 2012 Jyoti Behura 2012 Pawan Dewangan 2012 Alison E. Malcolm | 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 2000 Geophysics Laboratory of the University of Toronto 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 2010 Amoco Research Center 2010 Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf) 2012 Edinburgh Anisotropy Project: British Geological Survey, Edinburgh University, CNPC Geophysical Key Laboratory (China University of Petroleum) | | 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 2010 Bradley A. Birkelo 2010 Steve Danbom 2010 Mary L. Fleming 2010 John R. Sumner 2011 Shivaji Dasgupta 2011 Joseph Michael Reilly 2012 John H. Bradford 2012 Frank D. Brown 2012 R. A. (Bob) Wyckoff | | 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 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 recipients this year) 2010 Jerry Freel 2011 (no award recipients this year) 2012 Cezar Iacob | Best Paper in Geophysics 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 2009 "Role of the inhomogeneity angle in anisotropic attenuation analysis," Jyoti Behura and Ilya Tsvankin 2010 "Oscillating oil drops, resonant frequencies, and low-frequency passive seismology," Michael K. Broadhead 2011 "Investigation of injection-induced seismicity using a coupled fluid flow and rate/state friction model," Mark W. McClure, Roland N. Horne | Honorable Mentions (Geophysics) | 1987 "Cascaded migration: Improving the accuracy of finite-difference migration," Ken Larner and Craig Beasley 1988 "Elastic wave-field inversion of reflection and transmission data," Peter Mora 1988 "Normal moveout revisited: Inhomogeneous media and curved interfaces," Eric de Bazelaire 1988 "Imaging discontinuities on seismic sections," E.R. Kanasewich and S.M. Phadke 1988 "Seismic contouring: A unique skill," Paul Tucker 1988 "Cellular-automaton fluids: A model for flow in a porous media," Daniel Rothman 1988 "A three-dimensional perspective on 2-D moveout," David Forel and Gerald Gardner 1988 "Reflection seismology over azimuthally anisotropic media," Leon Thomsen 1989 "In quest of the flank," K.L. Larner, Craig Beasley and Walt Lynn 1989 "Integrated Seismic Analysis: Kidney Area, Northern Alberta, Canada," R.R. Stewart 1989 " A case history of velocity problems in the shadow zone of a large growth fault in the Frio Formation, Texas Gulf Coast," J.L. Allen and J.M. Burso 1990 "An accurate and efficient scheme for wave propagation in linear viscoelastic media," H. Tal-Ezer, J.M. Carcione, and D. Kosloff 1990 "Apparent layering in common-midpoint stacked images of two-dimensionally heterogeneous targets," B.S. Gibson and A.R. Levander 1990 "Ground-roll: Rejection using polarized filters," C-F. Shieh and R.B. Herrmann 1990 "Reflection shear-wave data collected near the principal Axes of Azimuthal anisotropy," H.N. Lynn and L.A. Thomsen 1990 "Schlumberger soundings near Medicine Lake, California," A.A.R. Zohdy and R.J. Bisdorf 1990 "Seismic traveltime inversion for transverse isotropy," B.S. Byun and D. Corrigan 1990 "The electrical field in a borehole with a casing," A.A. Kaufman 1990 "Three-dimensional migration of Swath Surveys," by J.R. Krebs 1990 "Transient electromagnetic responses of significant polarizable patches," G.W. Hohmann and G.A. Newman 1990 "Velocity-depth ambiguity of reflection traveltimes," S.H. Bickel 1991 "Why don't we measure seismic signatures?" A. Ziolkowski 1991 "The use of drill-bit energy as a downhole seismic source," J.W. Rector III and B.P. Marion 1991 "Fresnel zones in the light of broad-band data," R.W. Knapp 1991 "The generalized gravity anomaly: Endoscopic microgravity," J. Lakshmanan 1991 "Conductivity-depth imaging of airborne electromagnetic step-response data," J.C. Macnae, R. Smith, B.D. Polzer, Y. Lamontagne, and P.S. Klinkert 1992 "A physical model study of shear-wave splitting and fracture intensity," R.H. Tatham, M.D. Matthews, R.K. Sekharan, C.J. Wade, and L.M. Liro 1992 "A scattered equivalent-source method for interpolation and gridding of potential-field data in three dimensions," L. Cordell 1992 "Fresnel volume ray tracing," V. Cerveny and J.E.P. Soares 1992 "Magnetic interpretation using the 3-D analytic signal," W.R. Roest, J. Verhoel, and M. Pilkington 1992 "Radiation pattern and seismic waves generated by a roller-cone drill bit," J.W. Rector III and B.A. Hardage 1992 "Velocity modeling of a long period static anomaly, West Cameron Block 225, a Gulf of Mexico case history," J.E. Pickard 1993 "Identifying remanent magnetization efforts in magnetic data," W.R. Roest and M. Pilkington 1993 "A finite-difference time-domain solution for three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling," T. Wang and G.W. Hohmann 1993 "Resolution limits in ray tomography due to wave behavior: Numerical experiments," P.R. Williams and M.H. Worthington 1994 "Porosity, permeability, shear strength: Crosswell tomography below an iron foundry," T. Yamamoto, T. Nye, and M. Kuru 1994 "Modeling of streaming potential responses caused by oil well pumping," B. Wurmstich and F. Morgan 1994 "Inversion of induced polarization data," D. Oldenburg and Y. Li 1995 "High-resolution crosswell imaging of a west Texas carbonate reservoir: Part 1 – Project summary and interpretation," Jerry M. Harris, Richard C. Nolen-Hocksema, Robert T. Langan, Mark A. Van Schaack, Spyros K. Lazaratos, and James W. Rector III 1995 "Velocity analysis for transversely isotropic media," Tariq Alkhalifah and Ilya Tsvankin 1996 "A unified approach to 3-D seismic reflection imaging, Part I: Basic concepts," Peter Hubral, Jörg Schleicher, and Martin Tygel 1996 "3-D seismic evidence of the effects of carbonate karst collapse on overlying clastic stratigraphy and reservoir compartmentalization", Bob A. Hardage, David L. Carr, David E. Lancaster, James L. Simmons Jr., Robert Y. Elphick, Virginia M. Pendleton, and Ronald A. Johns 1997 "Electroseismic investigation of the shallow subsurface: Field measurements and numerical modeling," Oleg V. Mikhailov, Matthijs W. Haartsen, and M. Nafi Toksöz 1997 "Velocity analysis using nonhyperbolic moveout in transversely isotropic media," Tariq Ali Alkhalifah 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 2009 "Unified theory of global flow and squirt flow in cracked porous media," Morten Jakobsen and Mark Chapman 2009 "3D finite-difference frequency-domain modeling of controlled-source electromagnetic data: Direct solution and optimizations for high accuracy," Rita Streich 2009 "Reverse time migration in tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media," Robin Fletcher, Xiang Du, and Paul Fowler 2010 "Coupled equations for reverse time migration in transversely isotropic media," Paul Fowler, Xiang Du, Robin Fletcher 2010 "A perspective on 3D surface-related multiple elimination," William Dragoset, Eric Verschuur, Ian Moore, Richard Bisley 2010 "Interpolation with Fourier-radial adaptive thresholding," William Curry 2010 "On data-independent multicomponent interpolators and the use of priors for optimal reconstruction and 3D up/down separation of pressure wavefields," Kemal Ordemir, Ali Ozbek, Dirk-Jan van Manen, Massimiliano Vassallo 2011 "Scale properties of the seismic wavefield perspectives for full-waveform matching," Margherita Maraschini, Daniele Boiero, Sebastiano Foti, Valentina Socco 2011 "Quest for consistency, symmetry, and simplicity — The legacy of Albert Tarantola," Klaus Mosegaard 2011 "Focused-source electromagnetic survey versus standard CSEM: 3D modeling in complex geometries," Sofia Davydycheva, Nikolai Rykhlinski 2011 "Full-azimuth subsurface angle domain wavefield decomposition and imaging Part I: Directional and reflection image gathers," Zvi Koren, Igor Ravve | Best Papers in The 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," Xianhuai 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 2009 "Taking apart beam migration," Samuel Gray, Yi Xie, Carl Notfors, Tianfei Zhu , D. Wang, and Chu-Ong Ting 2010 "Multiazimuth versus wide-azimuth acquisition designs for sub-Messinian imaging: A finite-difference modeling study in West Nile Delta, Egypt," Main Muhammad Nurul Kabir, Kyoung-Jin Lee, Walter Rietveld, Brian J. Barley, James Keggin, Graham Johnson 2011 "Seismic anisotropy in microseismic event location analysis," Richard R. VanDok, Brian Fuller, Les Engelbrecht, Marc Sterling | Honorable Mentions (The Leading Edge) | Awards are given for the best presentation of technical papers at the Annual Meeting each year. | | 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 2009 "Digital rock physics: 3D imaging of core material and correlations to acoustic and flow properties," Mark Knackstedt, Shane Latham, Mahyar Madadi, Adrian Sheppard, Trong Varslot, and Christoph Arns 2009 "Observation and modeling of source effects in coda wave interferometry at Pavlof volcano," Matthew Haney, Kasper van Wijk, Leiph Preston, and David Aldridge 2011 "Resolution on multiples: Interpreters' perceptions, decision making, and multiple attenuation," Lee Hunt, R. Scott Reynolds, Mark Hadley, Scott Hadley, Ye Zheng, Mike Perz 2011 "Hydrogeological investigation for groundwater at the Dayspring Children's Village, South Africa," Susan Webb, David Ngobeni, Michael Jones, Tamiru Abiye, Nirocca Devkurran, Rachael Goba, Lewis Ashwal, Madeline Lee, Darren Burrows, Louise Pellerin | Best Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting | 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 2009 "Multilevel airgun array: A simple and effective way to enhance the low frequency content of marine seismic data," Dr. Guillaume Cambois, Andrew Samuel Long, Dr. Gregg Parkes, Rolf Terje Lundsten, Mech.E., Anders Mattsson, and Eivind Fromyr 2010 "Controlled-source elastic interferometric imaging by multidimensional deconvolution with downhole receivers below a complex overburden," Joost van der Neut, Kurang Jvalant Mehta, Jan Thorbecke, Kees Wapenaar 2011 "Multi-level continuous active source seismic monitoring (ML-CASSM): Mapping shallow hydrofracture evolution at a TCE contaminated site," Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin, Thomas M. Daley, Yuxin Wu, Susan S. Hubbard, John Petterson, Belinda Butler-Veytia, Bob Kelly | 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 2009 "Building TTI depth models using anisotropic tomography with well information," Andrey Bakulin, Marta Woodward, David Nichols, Konstantin Osypov, and Olga Zdraveva 2010 "New opportunities from 4D seismic and lithology prediction at Ringhorn Field," David Johnston, Upendra Tiwari, Michael Helgerud, Bernard Laugier 2011 "An improved gradient computation for adjoint wave-equation reflection tomography," Uwe Albertin | 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 2009 "Seismic-based lithology and fluid delineation of the ROK reservoir sand, shallow offshore Niger Delta," Dr. Prince Obi Nwogbo, Lucky Meshach Omudu, Robinson Dike, Samuel Olotu, and Gabriel Nedo Osayande 2009 "A workflow for the processing of reflection seismic data with CRS attributes," Stefan Dümmong, Mikhail Baykulov, and Dirk Gajewski 2010 "Seismic wave extrapolation using lowrank symbol approximation," Sergey Fomel, Lexing Ying, Xiaolei Song 2011 "Compensating for time stepping errors locally in the pseudo-analytical method using normalized pseudo-Laplacian," Chunlei Chu | Honorable Mentions (Best Poster Paper, Annual Meeting) | 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 1995 "3-D AVO: Methods, effectiveness, reliability," Maurizio Cardamone 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 2009 "Spectrum decomposition technology based on physical wavelet transform and its application," Zhenyu Zhu, Wei Zhao, and Song Liang 2010 "Issues regarding the use of time-lapse seismic surveys to monitor CO2 sequestration," Grace Cairns, Helmut Jakubowicz, Lidia Lonergan, Ann Muggeridge 2011 "Hydrogeophysics and the settlement of San Marcos Pueblo, NM: Investigations by the SAGE," John Ferguson, Daniella Rempe, Anna Nowicki, Kate Tallaksen, Nathaniel Lindsey, Jason Chang, Louise Pellerin | 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. | | 1995 "3-D, 3-C seismic characterization of Joffre Field, Alberta, Canada," John F. Arestad 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 2009 "Resolution function for controlled-source seismic interferometry: A data-driven diagnosis," Joost van der Neut 2010 "Role of contact heterogeneities on macroscopic elastic properties of granular media," Ratnanabha Sain 2011 "Long period, long duration seismic events during hydraulic fracture stimulation of a shale gas reservoir," Indrajit Das | 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 2009 "Sandstone petrofacies prediction to characterize permeability for Postle Field, Oklahoma," Crucelis López 2010 "Stochastic simulation of fault networks from 2D seismic lines," Nicolas Cherpeau 2011 "Seismic characterization of the Woodford shale in the Anadarko basin," Nabanita Gupta, Coauthors: Supratik Sarkar and Kurt Marfurt 2011 "Sensitivity analysis of time-lapse images obtained by differential waveform inversion with respect to reference model," Amir Asnaashari, Coauthors: Romain Brossier, Stephane Garambois, Jean Virieux, Francois Audebert, and Pierre Thore | Best Poster Paper Presented by a Student at the Annual Meeting | 1995 "Identifying noise in seismic data from the Gippsland Basin (Australia)," Jarrod C. Dunne 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 "Adaptive F-X interpolation of curved seismic events via exponentially weighted recursive least squares (EWRLS)," Mostafa Naghizadeh 2009 "Extrapolation of log properties by integrating fuzzy self-organizing maps and local linear modeling," Mehdi Eftekhari Far 2010 "Comprehensive petro-elastic modeling aimed at quantitative seismic reservoir characterization and monitoring," Alireza Shahin 2011 "Comparison of methods for modeling phase variation with angle," Xinfa Zhu, Coauthor: George McMechan | 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 2009 "Archaeological investigation of the Court Kiva in Chaco Canyon using geophysical methods," Cericia Martinez 2010 "Separation of blended data by iterative estimation and subtraction of interference noise," Panagiotis Doulgeris 2011 "Lowrank finite-differences for wave extrapolation," Xiaolei Song, Coauthors: Sergey Fomel, Lexing Ying, and Tian Ding | | |