Authors and editors honored at Editors' Dinner by Jenny Kucera  Authors, editors, members of Publication committees, and SEG publications staff gathered to celebrate their accomplishments at the Editors' Dinner and Award Presentations. This traditional event of the SEG Annual Meeting included a reception, dinner, and awards presentation on the evening of 23 September 2013. Tamas Nemeth, SEG Editor, served as emcee for the evening. Incoming President Don Steeples joined him at the podium to present plaques for SEG 2012 Honors and Awards—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 2012 Microseismic interferometry
V. Grechka and Y. Zhao
December 2012, Vol. 31, No. 12 Honorable Mention, The Leading Edge On some controversial issues in rock physics
L. Vernik and M. Kachanov
June 2012, Vol. 31, No. 6 Best Paper in Geophysics in 2012 3D edge detection seismic attributes used to map potential conduits for water and methane in deep gold mines in the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa
M. Manzi, R. Durrheim, K. Hein, and N. King
September-October 2012, Vol. 77, No. 5 Honorable Mention, Geophysics Imaging and quantifying salt-tracer transport in a riparian groundwater system by means of 3D ERT monitoring
Joseph Doetsch, Niklas Linde, Tobias Vogt, Andrew Binley, and Alan G. Green
September-October 2012, Vol. 77, No. 5 Honorable Mention, Geophysics Retrieving 2D structures from surface-wave data by means of space-varying spatial windowing
P. Bergamo, D. Boiero, and L. Socco
July-August 2012, Vol. 77, No. 4 Best Oral Paper Presented at the 2012 SEG Annual Meeting Full-wavefield inversion of time-lapse data for improved imaging and reservoir characterization
Partha Routh, Gopal Palacharla, Ivan Chikichev, and Spyros Lazaratos Honorable Mention On the prediction of repeatability noise in marine time-lapse surveys
Juan Cantillo Best Paper Presented at the 2012 SEG Annual Meeting Post-earthquake seismic reflection survey, Christchurch, New Zealand
Don C. Lawton, Malcolm B. Bertram, Kevin W. Hall, Kevin L. Bertram, and Jarg R. Pettinga Honorable Mention Integrated geophysical archaeological prospection resulting in the discovery of the school of gladiators in the Roman town of Carnuntum in Austria
Wolfgang Neubauer, Sirri Seren, Alois Hinterleitner, Michael Doneus, Klaus Löcker, Immo Trinks, Erich Nau, Michael Pregesbauer, Matthias Kucera, Geert Verhoeven, Timothy Saey, Philippe De Smedt, and Marc Van Meirvenne Incoming Geophysics Editor Evert Slob thanked Nemeth for serving as Geophysics Editor, and introduced the new Geophysics Editorial Board. Geophysics had a record-breaking year—achieving the highest impact factor in the journal's history in 2012 with a rating of 1.723, according to the Science Edition of Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports.The impact factor was calculated by taking the number of cites in 2012 to Geophysics articles published in 2010 and 2011 and dividing it by the number of Geophysics articles published in 2010 and 2011. News of the record impact factor arrived as Geophysics completed fiscal year 2013 with bests in several other performance metrics. The journal enjoyed its largest annual total of submissions (524), its fastest average turnaround time for first peer-review decision (52 days), its fastest-ever average number of days from acceptance to publication (78 days), and the largest total for full-text article downloads (approximately 600,000). The crowd celebrated the newest Publications achievement: the launch of the much-anticipated new journal. Interpretation is a peer-reviewed journal for advancing the practice of subsurface interpretation. Past SEG President Bob Hardage presented a plaque to Interpretation Editor Yonghe Sun in commemoration of the journal's inaugural issue in August 2013. There is also good news regarding open-access publishing. Ted Bakamjian, SEG publications director, commented on the recent changes: "SEG has just expanded its policy on open-access publishing. For about two years, authors have been able to pay a fee to make their articles free online through the SEG Web site. Now authors are able to retain copyright and license their work to SEG and the rest of the world through their choice of four Creative Commons licenses. This enables authors to satisfy requirements of some research funding agencies that mandate open-access publishing." Another milestone recognition was the announcement of Dean Clark's retirement in December 2013. Clark has served as TLE Editor since the first issue was published in June 1982. Several friends and colleagues took advantage of the open microphone to congratulate Clark on his accomplished career and to wish him the best in retirement. | 
