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.

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Award Recipients

• 2023 Imaging near-surface S-wave velocity and attenuation models by full-waveform inversion with distributed acoustic sensing-recorded surface waves Wenyong Pan, Luping Qu, Kristopher Innanen, Jan Dettmer, Marie Macquet, Donald Lawton, and Yanfei Wang
• 2022 Development and validation of a low-cost direct current resistivity meter for humanitarian geophysics applications, Dana Sirota, Jeffrey Shragge, Richard Krahenbuhl, Andrei Swidinsky, Nicaise Yalo, and John Bradford

• 2021 Reflection angle/azimuth-dependent least-squares reverse time migration Eric Duveneck, Michael Kiehn, Anu Chandran, and Thomas Kühnel

• 2020 Estimation of in situ hydrocarbon saturation of porous rocks from borehole measurements of spontaneous potential, Joshua Bautista-Anguiano and Carlos Torres-Verdín

• 2019 On the physical principles underlying electromagnetic induction, Mark E. Everett and Alan D. Chave

• 2018 First application of the marine differential electric dipole for groundwater investigations: A case study from Bat Yam, Israel, Amir Haroon, Klaus Lippert, Vladimir Mogilatov, and Bülent Tezkan

• 2017 Exploiting surface consistency for surface-wave characterization and mitigation — Part 1: Theory and 2D examples and Part 2: Application to 3D data, Christine E. Krohn and Partha S. Routh

• 2016 3D seismic image processing for faults, Xinming Wu and Dave Hale

• 2015 A seismic vertical vibrator driven by linear synchronous motors, Rik Noorlandt, Guy Drijkoningen, Johan Dams, and Rob Jenneskens

• 2014 Cooperative constrained inversion of multiple electromagnetic data sets, Michael S. McMillan and Douglas W. Oldenburg

• 2013 Anisotropic 3D full-waveform inversion, Michael Warner, Andrew Ratcliffe, Tenice Nangoo, Joanna Morgan, Adrian Umpleby, Nikhil Shah, Vetle Vinje, Ivan Štekl, Lluís Guasch, Caroline Win, Graham Conroy, and Alexandre Bertrand

• 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, Musa Doctor Manzi, Raymond Durrheim, Kim A. A. Hein, and Nick King

• 2011 Investigation of injection-induced seismicity using a coupled fluid flow and rate/state friction model, Mark McClure and Roland N. Horne

• 2010 Oscillating oil drops, resonant frequencies, and low-frequency passive seismology, Michael K. Broadhead

• 2009 Role of the inhomogeneity angle in anisotropic attenuation analysis, Jyoti Behura and Ilya Tsvankin

• 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

• 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

• 2006 Green's function representations for seismic interferometry, Kees Wapenaar and Jacob T. Fokkema

• 2005 Theory of true-amplitude one-way wave equations and true-amplitude common-shot migration, Yu Zhang, Guanquan Zhang, and Norman Bleistein

• 2004 Experimental design: Electrical resistivity data sets that provide optimum subsurface information, Peter Stummer, Hansruedi Maurer, and Alan G. Green

• 2003 A new sea-floor gravimeter, Glenn S. Sasagawa, Wayne C. Crawford, Ola Eiken, Scott Nooner, Torkjell Stenvold. and Mark A. Zumberge

• 2002 Characterization of fluid transport properties of reservoirs using induced microseismicity, Serge A. Shapiro, Elmar Rothert, Volker Rath, and Jan Rindschwentner

• 2001 Discrimination between pressure and fluid saturation changes from time-lapse seismic data, Martin Landrø

• 2000 On unified dual fields and Einstein deconvolution, Dan Loewenthal and Enders A. Robinson

• 1999 Manual seismic reflection tomography, Gary E. Murphy and Samuel H. Gray

• 1998 3-D seismic attributes using a semblance-based coherency algorithm, Kurt J. Marfurt, Steven L. Farmer, Rodney Lynn Kirlin, and Michael S. Bahorich

• 1997 Automatic conversion of magnetic data to depth, dip, and susceptibility contrast using the SPI (TM)! method, Jeffery B. Thurston and Richard S. Smith

• 1996 Effects of salt-related mode conversions on subsalt prospecting, Jeffrey S. Ogilvie and Guy W. Purnell

• 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.

• 1994 Remote sensing of seismic vibrations by laser Doppler interferometry, A. J. Berni

• 1993 Bullwinkle: A unique 3D experiment, James K. O'Connell, Madhu Kohli, and Scott Amos

• 1992 Imaging salt with turning seismic waves, David Hale, N. Ross Hill, and Joseph Stefani

• 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

• 1990 Analysis of conventional and converted mode reflections at Putah Sink, California using three-component data, Clint W. Frasier and Don Winterstein

• 1989 Time slices from two-dimensional surveys, M. H. Miller and William S. French

• 1988 Cooperative inversion of geophysical data, Larry R. Lines, A. K. Schultz, and Sven Treitel

• 1987 Three-dimensional seismic monitoring of an enhanced oil recovery process, R. J. Greaves and T. J. Fulp

• 1986 Automatic estimation of large residual statics corrections, Daniel H. Rothman

• 1985 Direct hydrocarbon detection using comparative P-wave and S-wave seismic sections, James D. Robertson and William C. Pritchett

• 1984 A time-domain electromagnetic system measuring the step-response of the ground, G. F. West, J. C. Macnae, and Y. Lamontagne

• 1983 Analysis of seismic data using horizontal cross-sections, M. R. Bone, B. F. Giles, and E. R. Tegland

• 1982 Field development with three-dimensional seismic methods in the Gulf of Thailand: A case history, C. G. Dahm and Robert J. Graebner

• 1981 The airborne electromagnetic discovery of the Detour zinc-copper-silver deposit Northwestern Quebec, Laurie E. Reed

• 1980 Channel wave mapping of coal seams in the United Kingdom, Iain M. Mason, David J. Buchanan, and Anthony K. Booer

• 1979 Magnetotellurics with a remote magnetic reference, Thomas D. Gamble, Wolfgang M. Goubau, and John Clarke

• 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

• 1977 Peg-leg multiples and dipping reflectors, F. K. Levin and P. M. Shah

• 1976 Residual static analysis as a general linear inverse problem, Ralph A. Wiggins, Ken Larner, and Robert D. Wisecup

• 1975 Three-dimensional induced-polarization and electromagnetic modeling, Gerald W. Hohmann

• 1974 Effect of water saturation on seismic reflectivity of sand reservoirs encased in shale, S. N. Domenico

• 1973 Use of wavefront curvature to relate seismic data with subsurface parameters, Pravin M. Shah

• 1972 Three-dimensional seismic method, G. G. Walton

• 1971 Seismic stratigraphic exploration+Part I, Part II, & Part III , John D. Marr

• 1970 Three-dimensional seismic modeling, Fred J. Hilterman

• 1969 Predictive deconvolution+theory and practice, K. L. Peacock and Sven Treitel

• 1968 Deep crustal seismic reflections at near-vertical incidence, R. M. Clowes, E. R. Kanasewich, and G. L. Cumming

• 1967 The digital processing of seismic data, Daniel Silverman

• 1966 The development and use of a high-precision downhole gravity-meter, Lynn G. Howell, K. O. Heintz, and A. Barry

• 1965 Velocity and frequency filtering of seismic data using laser light, Milton B. Dobrin, Arthur L. Ingalls, and James A. Long

• 1964 Principles of digital filtering, E. A. Robinson and Sven Treitel

• 1963 Standard curves for interpretation of magnetic anomalies over long tabular bodies, S. Parker Gay Jr.

• 1962 Head waves from a bed of finite thickness, F. K. Levin and J. D. Ingram

• 1961 Wave-front charts and three-dimensional migrations, A. W. Musgrave

• 1960 Continuous signal seismograph, J. M. Crawford, W. E. N. Doty, and M. R. Lee

• 1959 Water reverberations their nature and elimination, M. M. Backus

• 1958 Directivity effect of elongated charges, A. W. Musgrave, G. W. Ehlert, and D. M. Nash, Jr.

• 1957 The Gulf seismic profile printer, E. M. Palmer

• 1956 Investigation of shear waves, R. N. Jolly

• 1955 The synthesis of seismograms from well log data R. A. Peterson, W. R. Fillippone, and F. B. Coker

• 1954 Reflection quality a fourth dimension, B. F. Rummerfield

• 1953 The refraction arrival in water covered layers, C. B. Officer Jr.

• 1952 The significance of diffraction in the investigation of faults, T. Krey

• 1951 Seismic velocity as a function of depth and geologic time, L. Y. Faust

• 1950 Fault interpretation from seismic data in southwest Texas, Miller Quarles Jr.

• 1949 The direct approach to magnetic interpretation and its practical application, L. J. Peters

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• 1947 The fundamental equations of electrical prospecting, R. Maillet