Honorable Mentions (Geophysics)

The SEG recognizes those authors whose papers received Honorable Mention in the search for Best Paper in Geophysics.

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Honorable Mention Recipients

2024

• Probabilistic physics-informed neural network for seismic petrophysical inversion, Peng Li, Mingliang Liu, Motaz Alfarraj, Pejman Tahmasebi, and Dario Grana
• WISE: Full-waveform variational inference via subsurface extensions, Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

2023

• Distributed acoustic sensing of ocean-bottom seismo-acoustics and distant storms: A case study from Svalbard, Norway, Kittinat Taweesintananon, Martin Landrø, John Robert Potter, Ståle Emil Johansen, Robin André Rørstadbotnen, Léa Bouffaut, Hannah Joy Kriesell, Jan Kristoffer Brenne, Aksel Haukanes, Olaf Schjelderup, and Frode Storvik
• Geophysically guided well siting at the Aluto-Langano geothermal reservoir, Friedemann Samrock, Alexander Grayver, Marie Luise Texas Dambly, Madeleine R. Müller, and Martin O. Saar
• Moment tensor inversion of perforation shots using distributed-acoustic sensing, Milad Bader, Robert G. Clapp, Kurt T. Nihei, and Biondo Biondi

2022

• Early arrival waveform inversion using data uncertainties and matching filters with application to near-surface seismic refraction data, Ao Cai and Colin A. Zelt

• Multiplicative random seismic noise caused by small-scale near-surface scattering and its transformation during stacking, Andrey Bakulin, Dmitry Neklyudov and Ilya Silvestrov

• 3D ground-penetrating radar attribute classification: A case study from a paleokarst breccia pipe in the Billefjorden area on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Niklas Allroggen, Björn H. Heincke, Philipp Koyan, Walter Wheeler, and Jan S. Rønning

• Overburden-borne internal demultiple formula, Marcin Dukalski and Koos de Vos

2021

• Mechanical properties of grain contacts in unconsolidated sands, Colin Sayers

• Scattering-based focusing for imaging in highly complex media from band-limited, multicomponent data, David Vargas, Ivan Vasconcelos, Yanadet Sripanich, and Matteo Ravasi

• Near-field strain in distributed acoustic sensing-based microseismic observation, Bin Luo, Ge Jin, and Frantisek Stanek

• Near-surface full-waveform inversion in a transmission surface-consistent scheme, Daniele Colombo, Ernesto Sandoval-Curiel, Diego Rovetta, and Apostolos Kontakis

2020

• Rational approximation of P-wave kinematics – Part 1: Transversely isotropic media, Mohammed Mahdi Abedi

• Joint inversion of logging-while-drilling multipole acoustic data to determine formation shear-wave transverse isotropy, Yang-Hu Li, Song Xu, Can Jiang, Yuan-Da Su, and Xiao-Ming Tang

• Inverse modeling constrained by potential field data, petrophysics, and improved geologic mapping: A case study from prospective northwest Tasmania, Esmaeil Eshaghi, Anya M. Reading, Michael Roach, Mark Duffett, Daniel Bombardieri, Matthew J. Cracknell, John L. Everard, Grace Cumming, and Stephen Kuhn

• Mechanistic 3D finite-difference simulation of borehole spontaneous potential measurements, Joshua Bautista-Anguiano, Carlos Torres-Verdín, and Joachim Strobel

2019

• Adaptive waveform inversion: Practice, Lluís Guasch, Michael Warner, and Céline Ravaut

• Convolutional neural network for seismic impedance inversion, Vishal Das, Ahinoam Pollack, Uri Wollner, and Tapan Mukerji

• Data-driven internal multiple elimination and its consequences for imaging: A comparison of strategies, Lele Zhang, Jan Thorbecke, Kees Wapenaar, and Evert Slob

• Simulation of wave propagation in linear thermoelastic media, José M. Carcione, Zhi-Wei Wang, Wenchang Ling, Ettore Salusti, Jing Ba, and Li-Yun Fu. See also Errata

2018

• High-resolution gravity measurement aboard an autonomous underwater vehicle, Takemi Ishihara, Masanao Shinohara, Hiromi Fujimoto, Toshihiko Kanazawa, Akito Araya, Tomoaki Yamada, Kokichi Iizasa, Satoshi Tsukioka, Shinobu Omika, Takeshi Yoshiume, Masashi Mochizuki, and Kenji Uehira

• Near-surface velocity estimation using source-domain full traveltime inversion and early arrival waveform inversion, Lu Liu, Yan Wu, Bowen Guo, Song Han, and Yi Luo

• Three-term amplitude-variation-with-offset projections, Vaughn Ball, Luis Tenorio, Christian Schiøtt, Michelle Thomas, and J. P. Blangy

• Time reversal for wave refocusing and scatterer detection using machine learning, Matan Shustak and Evgeny Landa

2017

• Time step n-tupling for wave equations, Lasse Amundsen and Ørjan Pedersen

• Experimental development of low-frequency shear modulus and attenuation measurements in mated rock fractures: Shear mechanics due to asperity contact area changes with normal stress, Seth Saltiel, Paul Selvadurai, Brian P. Bonner, Steven D. Glaser, Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin

• Hydraulic fracture diagnostics from Krauklis-wave resonance and tube-wave reflections, Chao Liang, Ossian O’Reilly, Eric M. Dunham, and Dan Moos

• An effective-medium model for P-wave velocities of saturated, unconsolidated saline permafrost, Shan Dou, Seiji Nakagawa, Douglas Dreger, and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin

2016

• Integrated VTI model building with seismic data, geologic information, and rock-physics modeling — Part 1: Theory and synthetic test, Yunyue Li, Biondo Biondi, Robert Clapp, and David Nichols

• P- and S-wave velocity models of shallow dry sand formations from surface wave multimodal inversion, Paolo Bergamo and Laura Valentina Socco

• On the nature of long-period long-duration seismic events detected during hydraulic fracturing, Megan Zecevic, Guillaume Daniel, and Dana Jurick

• Full-model wavenumber inversion: An emphasis on the appropriate wavenumber continuation, Tariq Alkhalifah

2015

• Multidomain petrophysically constrained inversion and geology differentiation using guided fuzzy c-means clustering, Jiajia Sun and Yaoguo Li

• Inversion for permeability distribution from time-lapse gravity data, Joseph Capriotti and Yaoguo Li

• Validity of the acoustic approximation for elastic waves in heterogeneous media, Philippe Cance and Yann Capdeville

• Removing false images in reverse time migration: The concept of de-primary, Tong W. Fei, Yi Luo, Jiarui Yang, Hongwei Liu, and Fuhao Qin

2014

• Estimating the influence of stress state on compaction behavior, Matt R. Hauser, Brent A. Couzens-Schultz, and Alvin W. Chan

• Pore-scale modeling of electrical resistivity and permeability in FIB-SEM images of organic mudrock, Vahid Shabro, Shaina Kelly, Carlos Torres-Verdín, Kamy Sepehrnoori, and André Revil

• Recursive integral time extrapolation methods for waves: A comparative review, Xiang Du, Paul J. Fowler, and Robin P. Fletcher

• Computationally efficient three-dimensional acoustic finite-difference frequency-domain seismic modeling in vertical transversely isotropic media with sparse direct solver, Stephane Operto, Romain Brossier, Laure Combe, Ludovic Métivier, Alessandra Ribodetti, and Jean Virieux

2013

• Long-period, long-duration seismic events during hydraulic stimulation of shale and tight-gas reservoirs — Part 1: Waveform characteristics, Indrajit Das and Mark D. Zoback

2012

• Retrieving 2D structures from surface-wave data by means of space-varying spatial windowing, Paolo Bergamo, Daniele Boiero, and Laura Valentina Socco

• Imaging condition for nonlinear scattering-based imaging: Estimate of power loss in scattering, Clément Fleury and Ivan Vasconcelos

• 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 Green

2011

• Scale properties of the seismic wavefield perspectives for full-waveform matching, Margherita Maraschini, Daniele Boiero, Sebastiano Foti, and Valentina Socco

• Quest for consistency, symmetry, and simplicity -- The legacy of Albert Tarantola, Klaus Mosegaard

• Full-azimuth subsurface angle domain wavefield decomposition and imaging Part I: Directional and reflection image gathers, Zvi Koren and Igor Ravve

• Focused-source electromagnetic survey versus standard CSEM: 3D modeling in complex geometries, Sofia Davydycheva and Nikolai Rykhlinski

2010

• On data-independent multicomponent interpolators and the use of priors for optimal reconstruction and 3D up/down separation of pressure wavefields, Kemal Ordemir, Ali Ozbek, Dirk-Jan van Manen, and Massimiliano Vassallo

• Interpolation with Fourier-radial adaptive thresholding, William Curry

• Coupled equations for reverse time migration in transversely isotropic media, Paul Fowler, Xiang Du, and Robin Fletcher

• A perspective on 3D surface-related multiple elimination, William Dragoset, Eric Verschuur, Ian Moore, and Richard Bisley

2009

• Unified theory of global flow and squirt flow in cracked porous media, Morten Jakobsen and Mark Chapman

• Reverse time migration in tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media, Robin Fletcher, Xiang Du, and Paul Fowler

• 3D finite-difference frequency-domain modeling of controlled-source electromagnetic data: Direct solution and optimizations for high accuracy, Rita Streich

2008

• Real-time completion monitoring with acoustic waves, Andrey Bakulin, Alexander Sidorov, Boris Kashtan, and Mikko Jaaskelainen

• Plane-wave migration in tilted coordinates, Guojian Shan and Biondo Biondi

• Nonlinear 3D tomographic least-squares inversion of residual moveout in Kirchhoff prestack-depth-migration common-image gathers, Frank Adler, Reda Baina, Mohamed Amine Soudani, Pierre Cardon, and Jean-Baptiste Richard

• Estimating quality factor and mean grain size of sediments from high-resolution marine seismic data, Luke Pinson, Timothy Henstock, Justin Dix, and Jonathan Bull

2007

• Seismic modeling of gas chimneys, Børge Arntsen, Lars Wensaas, Helge Loseth, and Christian Hermanrud

• Multitransient electromagnetic demonstration survey in France, Anton Ziolkowski, Bruce A. Hobbs, and David Wright

• Forward modeling of fracture-induced sonic anisotropy using a combination of borehole image and sonic logs, Adam Donald, Romain Prioul, Randy Koepsell, Zakariae El Marzouski, and Tom Bratton

• A tutorial on complex seismic trace analysis, Arthur E. Barnes

2006

• The virtual source method: Theory and case study. Andrey Bakulin and Rodney W. Calvert

• Properties of surface waveguides derived from separate and joint inversion of dispersive TE and TM GPR data, Jan van der Kruk, Rita Streich, and Alan Green

• Induced polarization measurements on unconsolidated sediments from a site of active hydrocarbon biodegradation, Gamal Abdel Aal, Lee Slater, and Estella Atekwana

• Correlation of random wavefields: An interdisciplinary review, Eric Larose, Ludovic Margerin, Arnaud Derode, Bart van Tiggelen, Michel Campillo, Nikolai Shapiro, Anne Paul, Laurent Stehly, and Mickael Tanter

2005

• Full-resolution 3D GPR imaging, Mark P. Grasmueck, Ralf J. Weger, and Heinrich Horstmeyer

2004

• Expanded uncertainty quantification in inverse problems: Hierarchical Bayes and empirical Bayes, Alberto Malinverno and Victoria A. Briggs

• Efficient waveform inversion and imaging: A strategy for selecting temporal frequencies, Laurent Sirgue and R. Gerhard Pratt

• Diffraction imaging by focusing-defocusing: An outlook on seismic superresolution, V. Khaidukov, Evgeny Landa, and T. J. Moser

• Coupled geomechanics and flow simulation for time-lapse seismic modeling, Susan E. Minkoff, Charles Mike Stone, Steven L. Bryant, and Malgorzata Peszynska

2003

• Seismic trace interpolation in the Fourier transform domain, Necati Gülünay

• Focusing in dip and AVA compensation on scattering-angle/azimuth common image gathers, Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl, Maarten V. de Hoop, and Bjørn Ursin

• Angle-domain common-image gathers by wavefield continuation methods, Paul C. Sava and Sergey Fomel

• An efficient finite-difference scheme for electromagnetic logging in 3D anisotropic inhomogeneous media, Sofia Davydycheva, Vladimir L. Druskin, and Tarek Habashy

2002

• Seismic modeling, Jose Carcione, Gerard Herman, and Fons Ten Kroode

• Seismic anisotropy in sedimentary rocks, part 1: A single-plug laboratory method, Zhijing Wang

• PP + PS = SS, Vladimir Grechka and Ilya Tsvankin

• A new approach to offshore drill-bit reverse seismic vertical profiling (RSVP), Flavio Poletto and Giuliano Dordolo

• Use of multiattribute transforms to predict log properties from seismic data, Daniel P. Hampson, James S. Schuelke, and John A. Quirein

• Seismic migration problems and solutions, Samuel H. Gray, John Etgen, Joe Dellinger, and Dan Whitmore

• Prestack Gaussian-beam depth migration, N. Ross Hill

• Potential-field inversion: Choosing the appropriate technique to solve a geologic problem, João B. C. Silva, Walter E. Medeiros, and Valéria C. F. Barbosa

• Shear-wave velocity and density estimation from PS-wave AVO anaysis: Application to an OBS dataset set from the North Sea, Side Jin, G. Cambois, and C. Vuillermoz

• Phase encoding of shot records in prestack migration, Louis A. Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia, Curtis C. Ober, and Scott A. Morton

• Drill-bit signal separation for RVSP using statistical independence, Flavio Poletto, Fabio L. Rocca, and Luca Bertelli

• 3-D prestack Kirchhoff beam migration for depth imaging, Yonghe Sun, Fuhao Qin, Steve Checkles, and Jacques P. Leveille

1999

• Imaging structures below dipping TI media, Robert W. Vestrum, Donald C. Lawton, and Ron Schmid

• Estimating depth of investigation in dc resistivity and IP surveys, Douglas W. Oldenburg and Yaoguo Li

• Converted-wave reflection seismology over inhomogeneous, anisotropic media, Leon Thomsen

• Concepts of normal and dip moveout, Christopher L. Liner

• 3-D moveout inversion in azimuthally anisotropic media with lateral velocity variation: Theory and a case study, Vladimir Grechka and Ilya Tsvankin

1998

• Some remarks on surface multiple attenuation, William H. Dragoset and Zeljko Jericevic

• Smiles and frowns in migration velocity analysis, Jinming Zhu, Larry R. Lines, and Samuel H. Gray

• Bounds on low-frequency seismic velocities in partially saturated rocks, Gerald (Gary) M. Mavko and Tapan Mukerji

• 3-D symmetric sampling, Gijs J. O. Vermeer

1997

• Velocity analysis using nonhyperbolic moveout in transversely isotropic media, Tariq Ali Alkhalifah

• Electroseismic investigation of the shallow subsurface: Field measurements and numerical modeling, Oleg V. Mikhailov, Matthijs W. Haartsen, and M. Nafi Toksöz

1996

• A unified approach to 3-D seismic reflection imaging, Part I: Basic concepts, Peter Hubral, Jörg Schleicher, and Martin Tygel

• 3-D seismic evidence of the effects of carbonate karst collapse on overlying clastic stratigraphy and reservoir compartmentalization, Bob A. Hardage, David L. Carr, David E. Lancaster, James L. Simmons Jr., Robert Y. Elphick, Virginia M. Pendleton, and Ronald A. Johns

1995

• Velocity analysis for transversely isotropic media, Tariq Alkhalifah and Ilya Tsvankin

• 1995 High-resolution crosswell imaging of a west Texas carbonate reservoir: Part 1 - Project summary and interpretation, Jerry M. Harris, Richard C. Nolen-Hocksema, Robert T. Langan, Mark A. Van Schaack, Spyros K. Lazaratos, and James W. Rector III

1994

• Porosity, permeability, shear strength: Crosswell tomography below an iron foundry, T. Yamamoto, T. Nye, and M. Kuru

• Modeling of streaming potential responses caused by oil well pumping, B. Wurmstich and F. Morgan

• Inversion of induced polarization data, D. Oldenburg and Yaoguo Li

1993

• Resolution limits in ray tomography due to wave behavior: Numerical experiments, P. R. Williams and M. H. Worthington

• Identifying remanent magnetization effects in magnetic data, W. R. Roest and M. Pilkington

• A finite-difference time-domain solution for three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling, T. Wang and G. W. Hohmann

1992

• Velocity modeling of a long period static anomaly, West Cameron Block 225, a Gulf of Mexico case history, J. E. Pickard

• Radiation pattern and seismic waves generated by a roller-cone drill bit, J. W. Rector III and B. A. Hardage

• Magnetic interpretation using the 3-D analytic signal, W. R. Roest, J. Verhoef, and M. Pilkington

• Fresnel volume ray tracing, V. Cerveny and J. E. P. Soares

• A scattered equivalent-source method for interpolation and gridding of potential-field data in three dimensions, L. Cordell

• A physical model study of shear-wave splitting and fracture intensity, R. H. Tatham, M. D. Matthews, K. K. Sekharan, C. J. Wade, and L. M. Liro

1991

• Why don't we measure seismic signatures? A. Ziolkowski

• The use of drill-bit energy as a downhole seismic source, J. W. Rector III and B. P. Marion

• The generalized gravity anomaly: Endoscopic microgravity, J. Lakshmanan

• Fresnel zones in the light of broad-band data, R. W. Knapp

• Conductivity-depth imaging of airborne electromagnetic step-response data, J. C. Macnae, R. Smith, B. D. Polzer, Y. Lamontagne, and P. S. Klinkert

1990

• Velocity-depth ambiguity of reflection traveltimes, S. H. Bickel

• Transient electromagnetic responses of surficial, polarizable patches, G. W. Hohmann and G. A. Newman

• Three-dimensional migration of Swath Surveys, by J. R. Krebs

• The electrical field in a borehole with a casing, A. A. Kaufman

• Seismic traveltime inversion for transverse isotropy, B. S. Byun and D. Corrigan

• Schlumberger soundings near Medicine Lake, California, A. A. R. Zohdy and R. J. Bisdorf

• Reflection shear-wave data collected near the principal Axes of Azimuthal anisotropy, H. B. Lynn and L. A. Thomsen

• Ground-roll: Rejection using polarized filters, C. F. Shieh and R. B. Herrmann

• Apparent layering in common-midpoint stacked images of two-dimensionally heterogeneous targets, B. S. Gibson and A. R. Levander

• An accurate and efficient scheme for wave propagation in linear viscoelastic media, H. Tal-Ezer, J. M. Carcione, and D. Kosloff

1989

• 1989 Integrated Seismic Analysis: Kidney Area, Northern Alberta, Canada, R. R. Stewart

• 1989 In quest of the flank, K. L. Larner, Craig Beasley, and Walt Lynn

• 1989 A case history of velocity problems in the shadow of a large growth fault in the Frio Formation, Texas Gulf Coast, J. L. Allen and J. M. Bruso

1988

• Seismic contouring: A unique skill, Paul Tucker

• Reflection seismology over azimuthally anisotropic media, Leon Thomsen

• Normal moveout revisited: Inhomogeneous media and curved interfaces, Eric de Bazelaire

• Imaging discontinuities on seismic sections, E. R. Kanasewich and S.M. Phadke

• Elastic wave-field inversion of reflection and transmission data, Peter Mora

• Cellular-automaton fluids: A model for flow in a porous media, Daniel Rothman

• A three-dimensional perspective on two-dimensional moveout, David Forel and Gerald Gardner

1987

• Cascaded migration: Improving the accuracy of finite-difference migration, Ken Larner and Craig Beasley