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

• 2021 Mechanical properties of grain contacts in unconsolidated sands, Colin Sayers

• 2021 Scattering-based focusing for imaging in highly complex media from band-limited, multicomponent data, David Vargas, Ivan Vasconcelos, Yanadet Sripanich, and Matteo Ravasi

• 2021 Near-field strain in distributed acoustic sensing-based microseismic observation, Bin Luo, Ge Jin, and Frantisek Stanek

• 2021 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

• 2020 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

• 2020 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

• 2020 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

• 2019 Convolutional neural network for seismic impedance inversion, Vishal Das, Ahinoam Pollack, Uri Wollner, and Tapan Mukerji

• 2019 Data-driven internal multiple elimination and its consequences for imaging: A comparison of strategies, Lele Zhang, Jan Thorbecke, Kees Wapenaar, and Evert Slob

• 2019 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

• 2018 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

• 2018 Three-term amplitude-variation-with-offset projections, Vaughn Ball, Luis Tenorio, Christian Schiøtt, Michelle Thomas, and J. P. Blangy

• 2018 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, Ørjan Pedersen

• 2017 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

• 2017 Hydraulic fracture diagnostics from Krauklis-wave resonance and tube-wave reflections, Chao Liang, Ossian O’Reilly, Eric M. Dunham, Dan Moos

• 2017 An effective-medium model for P-wave velocities of saturated, unconsolidated saline permafrost, Shan Dou, Seiji Nakagawa, Douglas Dreger, 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

• 2016 P- and S-wave velocity models of shallow dry sand formations from surface wave multimodal inversion, Paolo Bergamo and Laura Valentina Socco

• 2016 On the nature of long-period long-duration seismic events detected during hydraulic fracturing, Megan Zecevic, Guillaume Daniel, and Dana Jurick

• 2016 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

• 2015 Inversion for permeability distribution from time-lapse gravity data, Joseph Capriotti and Yaoguo Li

• 2015 Validity of the acoustic approximation for elastic waves in heterogeneous media, Philippe Cance, Yann Capdeville

• 2015 Removing false images in reverse time migration: The concept of de-primary, Tong W. Fei, Yi Luo, Jiarui Yang, Hongwei Liu, Fuhao Qin

• 2014 Estimating the influence of stress state on compaction behavior, Matt R. Hauser, Brent A. Couzens-Schultz, and Alvin W. Chan

• 2014 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

• 2014 Recursive integral time extrapolation methods for waves: A comparative review, Xiang Du, Paul J. Fowler, and Robin P. Fletcher

• 2014 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, Laura Valentina Socco

• 2012 Imaging condition for nonlinear scattering-based imaging: Estimate of power loss in scattering, Clément Fleury, Ivan Vasconcelos

• 2012 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, Alan Green

• 2011 Scale properties of the seismic wavefield perspectives for full-waveform matching, Margherita Maraschini, Daniele Boiero, Sebastiano Foti, Valentina Socco

• 2011 Quest for consistency, symmetry, and simplicity -- The legacy of Albert Tarantola, Klaus Mosegaard

• 2011 Full-azimuth subsurface angle domain wavefield decomposition and imaging Part I: Directional and reflection image gathers, Zvi Koren, Igor Ravve

• 2011 Focused-source electromagnetic survey versus standard CSEM: 3D modeling in complex geometries, Sofia Davydycheva, 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, Massimiliano Vassallo

• 2010 Interpolation with Fourier-radial adaptive thresholding, William Curry

• 2010 Coupled equations for reverse time migration in transversely isotropic media, Paul Fowler, Xiang Du, Robin Fletcher

• 2010 A perspective on 3D surface-related multiple elimination, William Dragoset, Eric Verschuur, Ian Moore, Richard Bisley

• 2009 Unified theory of global flow and squirt flow in cracked porous media, Morten Jakobsen and Mark Chapman

• 2009 Reverse time migration in tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media, Robin Fletcher, Xiang Du, and Paul Fowler

• 2009 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

• 2008 Plane-wave migration in tilted coordinates, Guojian Shan and Biondo Biondi

• 2008 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

• 2008 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

• 2007 Multitransient electromagnetic demonstration survey in France, Anton Ziolkowski, Bruce A. Hobbs, and David Wright

• 2007 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

• 2007 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

• 2006 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

• 2006 Induced polarization measurements on unconsolidated sediments from a site of active hydrocarbon biodegradation, Gamal Abdel Aal, Lee Slater, and Estella Atekwana

• 2006 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

• 2004 Efficient waveform inversion and imaging: A strategy for selecting temporal frequencies, Laurent Sirgue and R. Gerhard Pratt

• 2004 Diffraction imaging by focusing-defocusing: An outlook on seismic superresolution, V. Khaidukov, Evgeny Landa, and T. J. Moser

• 2004 https://doi.org/10.1190/1.1649388 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

• 2003 Focusing in dip and AVA compensation on scattering-angle/azimuth common image gathers, Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl, Maarten V. de Hoop and Bjørn Ursin

• 2003 Angle-domain common-image gathers by wavefield continuation methods, Paul C. Sava and Sergey Fomel

• 2003 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

• 2002 Seismic anisotropy in sedimentary rocks, part 1: A single-plug laboratory method, Zhijing Wang

• 2002 PP + PS = SS, Vladimir Grechka and Ilya Tsvankin

• 2002 A new approach to offshore drill-bit reverse seismic vertical profiling (RSVP), Flavio Poletto and Giuliano Dordolo

• 2001 Use of multiattribute transforms to predict log properties from seismic data, Daniel P. Hampson, James S. Schuelke, and John A. Quirein

• 2001 Seismic migration problems and solutions, Samuel H. Gray, John Etgen, Joe Dellinger, and Dan Whitmore

• 2001 Prestack Gaussian-beam depth migration, N. Ross Hill

• 2001 Potential-field inversion: Choosing the appropriate technique to solve a geologic problem, João B. C. Silva, Walter E. Medeiros, and Valéria C. F. Barbosa

• 2000 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

• 2000 Phase encoding of shot records in prestack migration, Louis A. Romero, Dennis C. Ghiglia, Curtis C. Ober, and Scott A. Morton

• 2000 Drill-bit signal separation for RVSP using statistical independence, Flavio Poletto, Fabio L. Rocca, and Luca Bertelli

• 2000 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

• 1999 Estimating depth of investigation in dc resistivity and IP surveys, Douglas W. Oldenburg and Yaoguo Li

• 1999 Converted-wave reflection seismology over inhomogeneous, anisotropic media, Leon Thomsen

• 1999 Concepts of normal and dip moveout, Christopher L. Liner

• 1999 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

• 1998 Smiles and frowns in migration velocity analysis, Jinming Zhu, Larry R. Lines, and Samuel H. Gray

• 1998 Bounds on low-frequency seismic velocities in partially saturated rocks, Gerald (Gary) M. Mavko and Tapan Mukerji

• 1998 3-D symmetric sampling, Gijs J. O. Vermeer

• 1997 Velocity analysis using nonhyperbolic moveout in transversely isotropic media, Tariq Ali Alkhalifah

• 1997 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

• 1996 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

• 1994 Modeling of streaming potential responses caused by oil well pumping, B. Wurmstich and F. Morgan

• 1994 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

• 1993 Identifying remanent magnetization effects in magnetic data, W. R. Roest and M. Pilkington

• 1993 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

• 1992 Radiation pattern and seismic waves generated by a roller-cone drill bit, J. W. Rector III and B. A. Hardage

• 1992 Magnetic interpretation using the 3-D analytic signal, W. R. Roest, J. Verhoef, and M. Pilkington

• 1992 Fresnel volume ray tracing, V. Cerveny and J. E. P. Soares

• 1992 A scattered equivalent-source method for interpolation and gridding of potential-field data in three dimensions, L. Cordell

• 1992 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

• 1991 The use of drill-bit energy as a downhole seismic source, J. W. Rector III and B. P. Marion

• 1991 The generalized gravity anomaly: Endoscopic microgravity, J. Lakshmanan

• 1991 Fresnel zones in the light of broad-band data, R. W. Knapp

• 1991 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

• 1990 Transient electromagnetic responses of surficial, polarizable patches, G. W. Hohmann and G. A. Newman

• 1990 Three-dimensional migration of Swath Surveys, by J. R. Krebs

• 1990 The electrical field in a borehole with a casing, A. A. Kaufman

• 1990 Seismic traveltime inversion for transverse isotropy, B. S. Byun and D. Corrigan

• 1990 Schlumberger soundings near Medicine Lake, California, A. A. R. Zohdy and R. J. Bisdorf

• 1990 Reflection shear-wave data collected near the principal Axes of Azimuthal anisotropy, H. B. Lynn and L. A. Thomsen

• 1990 Ground-roll: Rejection using polarized filters, C. F. Shieh and R. B. Herrmann

• 1990 Apparent layering in common-midpoint stacked images of two-dimensionally heterogeneous targets, B. S. Gibson and A. R. Levander

• 1990 An accurate and efficient scheme for wave propagation in linear viscoelastic media, H. Tal-Ezer, J. M. Carcione, and D. Kosloff

• 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

• 1988 Reflection seismology over azimuthally anisotropic media, Leon Thomsen

• 1988 Normal moveout revisited: Inhomogeneous media and curved interfaces, Eric de Bazelaire

• 1988 Imaging discontinuities on seismic sections, E. R. Kanasewich and S.M. Phadke

• 1988 Elastic wave-field inversion of reflection and transmission data, Peter Mora

• 1988 Cellular-automaton fluids: A model for flow in a porous media, Daniel Rothman

• 1988 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