Best Paper Presented by a Student at the Annual Meeting

The SEG recognizes the Best Paper Presented by a Student at the Annual Meeting.

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Award Recipients

• 2021 Machine learning inversion of geophysical data by a conditional variational autoencoder, W. Anderson McAliley, co-authorː Yaoguo Li

• 2020 Event detection using a fast matched filter algorithm — An efficient way to deal with big microseismic data sets, Hanh Bui, co-authorː Mirko van der Baan

• 2019 Waveform inversion by model reduction using spline interpolation, Guillaume Barnier, co-authorsː Ettore Biondi and Robert Clapp

• 2018 Q-interface imaging based on data-domain attenuation estimation, Bei Li, co-authorsː Yunyue Elita Li and Jizhong Yang

• 2017 Removing numerical dispersion artifacts from reverse time migration and full-waveform inversion, Erik Koene, co-authorː Johan Robertsson

• 2016 Robust and flexible mixed-norm inversion, Dominique Fournier, co-authorsː Douglas Oldenburg and Kristofer Davis

• 2015 Comparison and improvement of laboratory SIP and NMR models of permeability, Gordon Osterman co-authorsː Kristina Keating, Lee Slater, and Andrew Binley

• 2014 An approximate inverse to the extended Born modeling operator, Jie Hou, co-author: William W. Symes

• 2013 Application of seismic boundary- preserving constrained inversion for delineating reservoir body, Tieyuan Zhu, co-authorː Jerry M. Harris

• 2012 A comparison of 5D reconstruction methods, Aaron Stanton, co-authorsː Nadia Kreimer, David Bonar, Mostafa Naghizadeh, and Mauricio Sacchi,

• 2011 Comparison of methods for modeling phase variation with angle, Xinfa Zhu, co-author: George McMechan

• 2010 Comprehensive petro-elastic modeling aimed at quantitative seismic reservoir characterization and monitoring, Alireza Shahin co-authors: Robert H. Tatham, Paul L. Stoffa, and Kyle T. Spikes

• 2009 Extrapolation of log properties by integrating fuzzy self-organizing maps and local linear modeling, Mehdi Eftekharifar

• 2008 Adaptive F-X interpolation of curved seismic events via exponentially weighted recursive least squares (EWRLS), Mostafa Naghizadeh co-author: Mauricio D. Sacchi

• 2007 Investigating active deepwater sedimentation near a gas-hydrate system with high-resolution seismic data, Pete A. Christianson, co-author: Paul E. Murray

• 2006 Geomechanical modeling as a reservoir characterization tool at Rulison Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado, Shannon M. Higgins, co-authors: Thomas L. Davis and Tom Bratton

• 2005 Multicomponent georadar imaging that corrects for total-field radiation, Rita Streich co-author: Jan van der Kruk

• 2004 Wavefield extrapolation in Riemannian coordinates, Paul C. Sava, co-author: Sergey Fomel

• 2003 Noncontacting ultrasonics for visualizing and exploiting multiple scattering, Alison E. Malcolm, co-authorː John Scales

• 2003 3D refraction migration for depth imaging of West Africa salt walls, Connie J. VanSchuyver, co-authorː Fred J. Hilterman

• 2002 Analysis of high resolution aeromagnetic anomalies from the south-central Alberta Foothills, Canada, Christian Abaco, co-authorsː Don Lawton and Deborak Spratt

• 2001 Shear-wave velocity dependence on fluid saturation, Reynaldo Cardona, co-authors: Michael Batzle, Thomas L. Davis

• 2001 Optimization of the shape of Gaussian beams, Karel Zacek

• 2001 Amplitude-preserved common image gathers by wave-equation migration, Paul Sava, co-authors: Biondo Biondi and Sergey Fomel

• 2000 Filter bank deconvolution of seismic data with application to compression and denoising, Laurent Duval, co-author: Tage Røsten

• 2000 Approximate reflection coefficients of P-S waves in anisotropic media, Petr Jilek

• 1999 Wave-equation migration velocity analysis, Paul C. Sava, co-author: Biondo Biondi

• 1999 Multi-configuration ground penetrating radar data, Jean-Paul Van Gestel, co-author: Paul L. Stofa

• 1998 Improving seismic resolution with nonstationary deconvolution, Alana R. Schoepp, co-author: Gary Margrave

• 1998 Focusing of inversion images, Oleg N. Portniaguine, co-author: Michael S. Zhdanov

• 1997 The transition zone between effective medium theory and ray theory for the propagation of electromagnetic waves, Christina Y. Chan, co-author: Rosemary J. Knight

• 1996 Electromagnetic coupling removal from frequency domain IP data in 2D environments, Partha S. Routh, co-author: Douglas W. Oldenburg

• 1995 3-D, 3-C Seismic Characterization of Joffre Field, Alberta, Canada, John Arestad co-authors: Thomas L. Davis and Robert D. Benson
• 1994 3-D Seismic Exploration for the Victorio Peak Treasure, John Washbourne co-authors: James Rector, Alex Alonso, Martin Cherrington, Tony Delonas and Rob Huggins
• 1993 Modeling a priori information on the velocity field in reflection tomography, Delphine Sinoquet
• 1992 Tomographic imaging of cross-well EM data, David Alumbaugh co-author: Frank Morrison
• 1992 High-resolution cross-well imaging of a west Texas carbonate reservoir: Part 4-Reflection imaging, Spyros Lazaratos co-author: J. M. Harris, James W. Rector III, and M. Van Schaack
• 1991 Inversion of 3-D geologic structures using parallelism, developability, and smoothness least-squares criteria, Hery Rakotoarisoa co-authors: Michel Léger and Jean‐Marie Morvan