Distinguished Lecturer
SEG's Distinguished Lecturer program honors outstanding individuals noted for high-caliber work in their contributions to geophysics on an international level and who are outstanding communicators of ideas and concepts. SEG's Distinguished Lecturer program is a companion program to SEG's Honorary Lecturer program.
Selection as an SEG Distinguished Lecturer is viewed as a major honor and recognition of excellence by the SEG. In addition to recognizing an individual's contributions to the science or application of geophysics, this position is an active effort to promote geophysics, stimulate general scientific and professional interest, expand technical horizons, and provide a connection to SEG activities and practices.
Two Distinguished Lecturers are selected each year: one for the spring and one for the fall. The fall lecture is a jointly endorsed lecture with AAPG. The joint lecture is an opportunity to bring local geophysical and geological sections/societies into a common forum. Therefore, the lecture is relevant to both disciplines.
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All Distinguished Lecturers are listed. A summary of the lecture is included on the lecturer's biography page along with a link to a recording of the lecture, if available.
2023
- Partha Routh – New frontiers in full wave-field inversion: Journey towards elastic FWI and direct use of raw seismic data
2022
- Roel Snieder – Measuring variations in the seismic velocity as a diagnostic of rock damage and healing
- Laura Bandura – Quantifying the business impact of seismic technology to deepwater exploration
2021
- Ali Tura – Recent advances in seismic reservoir characterization and monitoring
- Lucy MacGregor – Multi-physics analysis: Extracting the most from diverse datasets
2020
- Aria Abubakar – Potential and challenges of applying artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods for geoscience
- Sergey Fomel – Automating seismic data analysis and interpretation
2019
- John Etgen – Practical insights and techniques in seismic velocity estimation
- Felix Herrmann – Sometimes it pays to be cheap – Compressive time-lapse seismic data acquisition
2018
- Satish Singh – Seismic full waveform inversion for fundamental scientific and industrial problems
- William Symes – Advanced imaging for practitioners
2017
- Raymond Abma – Simultaneous and coded seismic sources: Present and upcoming technologies
- Bruce Hart – Five things geophysicists should know about shale plays and The Ice Age and the giant Bakken oil accumulation
- Paul Hatchell – Getting more for less: Frequent low-cost seismic monitoring solutions for offshore fields
2016
- Steven Constable – Geophysical inversion: Which model do you want?, Mapping gas hydrate using electromagnetic methods, and Marine EM: The past, the present, and the future
- Joe Dellinger – Forensic data processing – Revealing your data's hidden stories
2015
- Dimitri Bevc – Full-waveform inversion: Challenges, opportunities, and impact
- Jean Virieux – Hierarchical seismic imaging: A multiscale approach
2014
- Dave Hale – 3D seismic image processing for interpretation of faults and horizons
- Peter Pecholcs – A journey through time in search of Arabian giants – Oil/gas fields, recording channels, and petabytes
2013
- Joseph Stefani – The Earth is cleverer than you are — Learnings in earth and seismic modeling, and applications of FD modeling to rock physics and geomechanics
- Carl Regone – Acquisition modeling: Expect the unexpected
- Gerard Schuster – Seismic interferometry and beyond: Harvesting signal from coherent noise
2012
- Manika Prasad – Shales and imposters: Understanding shales, organics, and self-resourcing rocks
- Samuel Gray – A brief history of depth…and time seismic imaging
2011
- Satinder Chopra – Seismic detection of faults and fractures
- Douglas Oldenburg – Imaging the Earth's near surface: The why and how of applied geophysics for the 21st century
- Andrey Bakulin – Virtual source method for imaging and monitoring below complex overburden
2010
- Carl Sondergeld – Rumblings from the laboratory: Past, present, and future
- Patrick Connolly – Robust workflows for seismic reservoir characterization
2009
- Bruce Hart – Reservoir-Scale seismic stratigraphy: A call to integration and Basin-centered gas accumulations: Revisiting the type areas with integrated datasets
- Craig Beasley – Lessons learned from simultaneous source investigations
- Jack Bouska – Integrating seismic acquisition and processing
2008
- Peter Duncan – Aggressively passive: Microseismic opportunities over an oilfield's life
- Tadeusz Ulrych – The role of amplitude and phase in processing and inversion
2007
- Don Steeples – Some stupid shallow seismic experiments I have done
- Leonard James Srnka – Illuminating reservoirs with electromagnetics
2006
- William Fahmy – DHI/AVO best practices methodology and applications
- Gary Mavko – Rock physics strategies for facies and fluids mapping
2005
- Panos Kelamis – A pragmatic view of land multiple attenuation technology
- Rebecca Latimer – Uses, abuses, and examples of seismic-derived acoustic impedance data: What does the interpreter need to know?
- Gregory Partyka – Spectral decomposition and inversion
2004
- Heloise Lynn – The winds of change: Anisotropic rocks...their preferred direction of fluid flow and their associated seismic signatures
- William Abriel – Earth model complexity and risk description in resource exploration and development
2003
- Steven May – Volume interpretation and visualization
- Arthur Weglein – A perspective on the evolution of processing seismic primaries and multiples for a complex multidimensional Earth
2002
- Jerry Harris – Crosswell seismic profiling: The decade ahead
- Geoffrey Dorn – The role of visualization in resource exploration and development
2001
- Kurt Rudolph – DHI/AVO analysis best practices: A worldwide analysis
- Robert Tatham – Breaking down barriers to effective use of multicomponent seismic data
2000
- David Lumley – The next wave in reservoir monitoring: The instrumented oilfield
