Honorable Mentions (The Leading Edge)

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

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Honorable Mention Recipients

• 2021 Mineral prospectivity mapping using a VNet convolutional neural network, Michael McMillan, Eldad Haber, Bas Peters, and Jennifer Fohring

• 2021 CO2 messes with rock physics, Manika Prasad, Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Thomas Daley, Similoluwa Oduwole, and William Harbert

• 2021 Computing elastic properties of organic-rich source rocks using digital images, Mita Sengupta and Shannon L. Eichmann

• 2021 Python Earth Engine API as a new open-source ecosphere for characterizing offshore hydrocarbon seeps and spills, Whitney Trainor-Guitton, Leo Turon, and Dominique Dubucq

• 2020 A nonlinear and anisotropic data-driven litho-petroelastic inversion for single-loop subsurface characterization: Theory, uncertainties, and a case study, Ran Bachrach and Edan Gofer

• 2020 Validating the origin of microseismic events in target reservoir using guided waves recorded by DAS Owen Huff, Ariel Lellouch, Bin Luo, Ge Jin, and Biondo Biondi

• 2019 The nimble node — Million-channel land recording systems have arrived, Ted Manning, Dinara Ablyazina, and John Quigley

• 2019 Full-waveform inversion for salt: A coming of age, Ping Wang, Zhigang Zhang, Jiawei Mei, Feng Lin, and Rongxin Huang

• 2018 Time-lapse seismic monitoring of individual hydraulic frac stages using a downhole DAS array, Grant Byerley, Dave Monk, Peter Aaron, and Mike Yates

• 2017 4D DAS VSP as a tool for frequent seismic monitoring in deep water, Albena Mateeva, Jorge Lopez, David Chalenski, Maria Tatanova, Paul Zwartjes, Zhaohui Yang, Sudhish Bakku, Koos de Vos, and Hans Potters

• 2017 Hydraulic-fracture geometry characterization using low-frequency DAS signal, Ge Jin and Baishali Roy

• 2017 Impact of high-resolution FWI in the Western Black Sea: Revealing overburden and reservoir complexity, Partha Routh, Ramesh Neelamani, Rongrong Lu, Spyros Lazaratos, Hendrik Braaksma, Steve Hughes, Rebecca Saltzer, Jonathan Stewart, Kiran Naidu, Heather Averill, Vijay Gottumukkula, Peter Homonko, Joseph Reilly, and Damian Leslie

• 2016 Innovations in seismic sensors driven by the search for gravitational waves, Mark Beker, Xander Campman, Jules van Oven, Wim Walk, Jack Levell, Zijian Tang, Mike Danilouchkine, Dirk Smit, Johannes van den Brand, Soumen Koley, and Maria Bader

• 2016 High-resolution velocity modeling by seismic-airborne TEM joint inversion: A new perspective for near-surface characterization, Daniele Colombo, Gary McNeice, Diego Rovetta, Ernesto Sandoval-Curiel, [[Ersan Turkoglu], and Armando Sena

• 2015 Microseismic shearing driven by hydraulic-fracture opening: An interpretation of source-mechanism trends, James Rutledge, Xin Yu, Scott Leaney

• 2015 Can we ever trust the shear-wave log? Arthur C. H. Cheng

• 2014 Wave-equation angle-based illumination weighting for optimized subsalt images, Mariana Gherasim, Bertram Nolte, John Etgen, Petr Jilek, Phuong Vu, att Trout, and Ken Hartman

• 2014 Prestack seismic inversion versus neural-network analysis: A case study in the Scarab field offshore Nile Delta, Egypt, Islam A. Mohamed, Hamed Z. El-Mowafy, Diaa Kamel, and Mohamed Heikal

• 2013 Breaking the limit of seismic resolution: A synthetic example based on Tunu shallow gas development, Pierre Thore and Pierre Spindler

• 2012 On some controversial issues in rock physics, Lev Vernik and Mark Kachanov

• 2011 Resolution on multiples: Interpreters' perceptions, decision making, and multiple attenuation, Lee Hunt, R. Scott Reynolds, Mark Hadley, Scott Hadley, Ye Zheng, and Mike Perz

• 2011 Hydrogeological investigation for groundwater at the Dayspring Children's Village, South Africa, Susan Webb, David Ngobeni, Michael Jones, Tamiru Abiye, Nirocca Devkurran, Rachael Goba, Lewis Ashwal, Madeline Lee, Darren Burrows, and Louise Pellerin

• 2009 Observation and modeling of source effects in coda wave interferometry at Pavlof volcano, Matthew Haney, Kasper van Wijk, Leiph Preston, and David Aldridge

• 2009 Digital rock physics: 3D imaging of core material and correlations to acoustic and flow properties, Mark Knackstedt, Shane Latham, Mahyar Madadi, Adrian Sheppard, Trong Varslot, and Christoph Arns

• 2007 Covenant Field: A major oil discovery in the Sevier Thrust belt of central Utah, Keith Johnson, Douglas K. Strickland, John P. Vrona, Dan Schelling, and Dave Wavrick

• 2006 Seismic interferometry--turning noise into signal, Andrew Curtis, Peter Gerstoft, Haruo Sato, Roelof Snieder, and Kees Waperaar

• 2006 Marine electromagnetic methods--a new tool for offshore exploration, Steven Constable

• 2006 Application of spectral decomposition to detection of dispersion anomalies associated with gas saturation, Emeka Odebeatu, Jinghua Zhang, Mark Chapman, Enru Liu, and Xiang-Yang Li

• 2005 Structural interpretation of the deepwater Gunashli Field, facilitated by 4-C OBS seismic data, Dominic M. Manley, Sean F. Mohammed, Nigel D. Robinson and Rowland W. Thomas

• 2005 Developing the long-term seismic strategy for Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, South Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, John M. Howie, Nigel D. Robinson, Martin C. Riviere, Thomas A. Lyon, and Dominic M. Manley

• 2005 4D time-lapse monitoring of Chirag Field, Nigel D. Robinson, Alan J. Ford, John M. Howie, Dominic M. Manley, Martin C. Riviere, Simon Stewart, and Rowland W. Thomas

• 2004 Seismic challenges of developing the pre-Pliocene Akhen Field offshore Nile Delta, Robert F. Marten, Mark Shann, James E. Mika, Sondra Rothe, and Yan Quist

• 2004 Seismic amplitudes from low gas saturation sands, John J. O'Brien

• 2004 Predicting the economic impact of acquisition artifacts and noise, Richard T. Houck

• 2003 Pushing the limits of resolution at Holstein: A case history from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Alexander S. Calvert, Eric J. Eksstrand, John T. Etgen, Frederick J. Billette, Vikramaditya Sen, Carl J. Regone, M. Mark Truxillo, Yannick Cobo, Bill McLain, Tomm Byrd and Scott Young

• 2003 Factors affecting frequency content in preSDM imaging, Ian F. Jones and Juergen K. Fruehn

• 2003 3D/4C Emilio: Azimuth processing and anisotropy analysis in a fractured carbonate reservoir, Laura M. Vetri, Eugenio Loinger, James E. Gaiser, Heloise B. Lynn and Andrea Grandi

• 2002 Integrated seismic and subsurface characterization of Bonga Field, offshore Nigeria, Mark Chapin, Peter Swinburn, Raphic van Der Weiden, Dieter Skaloud, Sola Adesanya, David Stevens, Chris Varley and Jacob Wilkie

• 2001 The next wave in reservoir monitoring: The instrumented oil field, Dr. David E. Lumley

• 2001 Quantitative evaluation of the geotechnical risk associated with a stratigraphic trap in the Neuquen Basin of Argentina, Jean-Pierre Blangy

• 2000 Using legacy seismic data in an integrated time-lapse study: Lena Field, Gulf of Mexico, David H. Johnston, John E. Eastwood, Robert J. Vauthrin, Jung-Gi (Jane) Shyeh, and Larry R. Stanley

• 1999 Improving seismic data for detailed structural interpretation, Jonny Hesthammer

• 1999 Elastic impedance, Patrick Connolly