Authors honored at Editors' Dinner and Award Presentations

By Jenny Kucera, associate editor TLE

Editors, authors, members of Publication committees, and SEG publications staff gathered to celebrate their accomplishments at the Editors' Dinner. This traditional event of the SEG Annual Meeting, this year on the evening of November 5th, was an enjoyable gathering of friends—which included a reception, dinner, and awards presentation.

Tamas Nemeth, SEG Editor, served as emcee for the evening. President Bob Hardage presented plaques for best paper, best oral paper, and best poster paper along with certificates for numerous honorable mentions in each category:

Best Paper in The Leading Edge in 2011

Seismic anisotropy in microseismic event location analysis
Richard R. Van Dok, Brian Fuller, Les Engelbrecht, Marc Sterling
July 2011, Vol. 30, No. 7

Honorable Mention, The Leading Edge

Resolution on multiples: Interpreters' perceptions, decision making, and multiple attenuation
Lee Hunt, R. Scott Reynolds, Mark Hadley, Scott Hadley, Ye Zheng, Mike Perz
April 2011, Vol. 30, No. 8

Honorable Mention, The Leading Edge

Hydrophysical investigation for groundwater at the Dayspring Children's Village, South Africa
Susan Webb, David Ngobeni, Michael Jones, Tamiru Abiye, Nirocca Devkurran, Racheal Goba, Lewis Ashwal, Madeline Lee, Darren Burrows, Louise Pellerin
April 2011, Vol. 30, No. 4

Best Paper in Geophysics in 2011

Investigation of injection-induced seismicity using a coupled fluid flow and rate/state friction model
Mark W. McClure, Roland N. Horne
November/December 2011, Vol. 76, No. 6

Honorable Mention, Geophysics

Full-azimuth subsurface angle domain wavefield decomposition and imaging Part I: Directional and reflection image gathers
Zvi Koren, Igor Ravve
January/February 2011, Vol. 76, No. 1

Honorable Mention, Geophysics

Focused-source electromagnetic survey versus standard CSEM: 3D modeling in complex geometries
Sofia Davydycheva, Nikolai Rykhlinski
January/February 2011, Vol. 76, No. 1

Honorable Mention, Geophysics

Quest for consistency, symmetry, and simplicity—The legacy of Albert Tarantola
Klaus Mosegaard
September/October 2011, Vol. 76, No. 5

Honorable Mention, Geophysics

Scale properties of the seismic wavefield perspectives for full-waveform matching
Margherita Maraschini, Daniele Boiero, Sebastiano Foti, Laura Valentina Socco
September/October 2011, Vol. 76, No. 5

Best Oral Paper Presented at the 2011 SEG Annual Meeting

Multi-level continuous active source seismic monitoring (ML-CASSM): Mapping shallow hydrofracture evolution at a TCE contaminated site
Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Thomas M. Daley, Yuxin Wu, Susan S. Hubbard, John Peterson, Belinda Butler-Veytia, Bob Kelly

Honorable Mention

An improved gradient computation for adjoint wave-equation reflection tomography
Uwe Albertin

Best Poster Paper Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting

Compensating for time stepping errors locally in the pseudo-analytical method using normalized pseudo-Laplacian
Chunlei Chu

Honorable Mention

Hydrogeophysics and the settlement of San Marcos Pueblo, NM: Investigations by the SAGE geophysical field course
John Ferguson, Daniella Rempe, Anna Nowincki, Kate Talaksen, Nathaniel Lindsey, Jason Chang, Louise Pellerin
 

Another milestone celebration was the 30th Anniversary of The Leading Edge. Dean Clark has served as TLE Editor since the first issue was published in June 1982.

The crowd celebrated the newest Publications achievement: the launch of a new journal. Interpretation is a peer-reviewed journal for advancing the practice of subsurface interpretation. The journal was approved in May 2012 by the SEG Executive Committee and will be published quarterly beginning May 2013. Papers will be published online as they are accepted, edited, and composed. Look for the first papers to be published online in December 2012.

Interpretation Editors include Yonghe Sun, Bob A. Hardage, Hongliu H. Zeng, William L. Abriel, John J. O'Brien, Donald Alan Herron, Bruce S. Hart, Kurt J. Marfurt, and David H. Johnston.