Honorary Lecturer

SEG's Honorary Lecturer program is a companion program to SEG's Distinguished Lecturer program with a focus to transfer knowledge within a region. The regional focus strengthens services SEG provides to an expanding global membership. Lectures may be given in English or a language appropriate to the region. The regions are Central and South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, North America, the Pacific South, and South and East Asia.

Selection as an Honorary Lecturer is viewed as an honor and recognition of excellence by the SEG. In addition to recognizing an individual's contributions to the science or application of geophysics, this position is an active effort to promote geophysics, stimulate general scientific and professional interest, expand technical horizons, and provide a connection to SEG activities and practices.

For more information about SEG's Continuing Education program, please contact: ceseg.org.

All Honorary Lecturers are listed. A summary of the lecture is included on the lecturer's biography page along with a link to a recording of the lecture, if available.

2023

• Roman Pevzner – Surface and borehole seismic monitoring of CO₂ geological storage – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia
• Leo Eisner – Mapping pore pressure with beach balls – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Maxim Lebedev – Digital rock under stress – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South

2022

• Carlos Calderón-Macías – Near-surface scattering in seismic data: From signal to noise and noise to signal – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Partha Routh – Full wave-field inversion: Journey towards practical applications – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Ariel Lellouch – Applications of fiber-optic sensing to borehole seismology – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Klaus Holliger – Using near-surface geophysics to estimate soil and rock physical properties – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Mojtaba Rajabi – Present-day crustal stress across spatial scales – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Elita Li – Listening to Singapore: Harvesting urban noise for space, water, and hazard mitigation – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2021

• Miguel Bosch – The new paradigms in seismic inversion – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Jack Dvorkin – Modern rock physics – Challenges and solutions – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Mark Zoback – Geomechanical issues affecting long-term storage of CO₂ – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Xiaogui Miao – From multi-component imaging to ocean bottom seismic technology-challenges or opportunities? – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Nimisha Vedanti – Understanding seismic wave attenuation mechanisms in porous and non-porous media: Some new insights – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia
• Adriana Citlali Ramírez – Seismic technology in northern European waters and the prevalence of multiples – Honorary Lecturer, Europe

2020

• Saleh Al-Dossary – Improving reservoir characterization using four innovative seismic technologies – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Patricia de Lugão – Environment-friendly exploration using magnetotellurics – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Anna Shaughnessy – Developing a successful career in geophysics today – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Johan Robertsson – Generalized sampling and gradiometry: Changing the rules of the information game – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Lisa Gavin – Regional to reservoir stress-induced seismic azimuthal anisotropy – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Xinming Wu – Deep learning for seismic processing and interpretation – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2019

• Heloise Lynn – Azimuthal P-P seismic measurements: Past, present, and future – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Hesham El-Kaliouby – Induced polarization effect in time-domain electromagnetic prospecting, noise or signal? – Virtual Honorary Lecturer, Online, Middle East & Africa
• Gladys Gonzalez – De-risking exploration and development with realistic 3D geologic modeling, geophysical seismic simulation, and imaging – Virtual Honorary Lecturer, Online, Latin America
• Boris Gurevich – Seismic attenuation, dispersion, and anisotropy in porous rocks: Mechanisms and models – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Subhashis Mallick – Reservoir characterization for the next generation – Virtual Honorary Lecturer, Online, South & East Asia
• Dirk Gajewski – Wavefront attributes – A tool for processing, imaging, and model building – Honorary Lecturer, Europe

2018

• Ruben Martinez – How recent advances in seismic depth imaging can enhance prospect identification and appraisal – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Maria Angela Capello – The evolving challenges of geophysicists – From amplitude mappers to partners in drilling and water search – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Christine Krohn – The complexity just below our feet and the implications for the fidelity of land seismic data – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Rima Chatterjee – In-situ stress, pore pressure, and geomechanical modeling: An aid to reservoir exploration and development in the Krishna-Godavari and Upper Assam Basins, India – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia
• Mazin Farouki – Dense sampling in marine seismic: Efficiency in acquisition without compromising data quality – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Ivan Vasconcelos – Full-wavefield focusing in seismic imaging – Concepts, applications, and examples – Honorary Lecturer, Europe

2017

• Martin Tygel – Multiparametric traveltimes: Concepts and applications – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Sherif Hanafy – Inverting every type of arrival for near-surface imaging – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Mirko van der Baan – How widespread is human-induced seismicity in the USA and Canada? – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Martin Landrø – New trends in marine seismic acquisition – possibilities and impact on data quality – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Koya Suto – A hitchhiker's guide to geophysics – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• J. V. S. S. Narayana Murty – Passive seismic tomography (PST), QC, and application of PST-derived velocity for seismic imaging – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2016

• Pedro Alvarez – Rock-property estimation from seismic and CSEM attributes using a rock-physics framework – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Said Mahrooqi – Land seismic acquisition – the highs and lows of very high data rates and very low frequencies – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Scott Michell – Subsalt imaging: Snapshots in time, reflections, and next steps – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• How-Wei Chen – Crossing boundaries among near-surface, energy resource exploration, earthquake, and tectonic studies – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Michael Kemper – Infusing rock physics into seismic inversion – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Jie Zhang – Looking into the near surface imaging technologies and results – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2015

• Sergio Chávez-Pérez – Seismic bandwidth extension and resolution improvement: What works – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Elijah Ayolabi – Near-surface geophysics: A high-fidelity tool for engineering, environmental, and hydrological problems – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Dan Whitmore – Concepts and applications of imaging with multiples and primaries – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Evgeny Landa – Pitfalls and challenges of seismic imaging – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Greg Beresford – Some interesting concepts associated with seismic seafloor acquisition – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Naide Pan – Broadband marine seismic and beyond: With focus on wave-theory and multicomponent streamer-based solutions and applications – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2014

• Laurent Sirgue – Full waveform inversion of seismic data: Investigating the Earth for high-resolution velocities and more – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Mauricio D. Sacchi – Practical aspects of regularization and interpolation of (5D) seismic data – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Bruce Blake – Improving seismic structural time-map accuracy with better near-surface measurements – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Aria Abubakar – Joint inversion of multiphysics data for petrophysical and engineering properties – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Sandeep Chandola – Marine seismic acquisition: Expanding the possibilities! – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Xuri Huang – Bridging the chasm between geophysics and reservoir engineering – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2013

• Marion Jegen – Joint inversion: The way forward to a comprehensive earth model – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Marco Polo Pereira Buonora – The use of mCSEM for deep-water hydrocarbon exploration in Brazil – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• George Smith – AVO in exploration and dvelopment – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Nick Moldoveanu – Evolution of marine acquisition technology after wide azimuth – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• David Isles – Aeromagnetics – A driver for discovery and development of Earth resources – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• D. P. Sinha – Earth velocity estimation: Bridge the gap of interdependency between geology and geophysics – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2012

• Ian Jones – From imaging to inversion – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Eduardo Filpo – Image ray time-to-depth conversion and model ray applications – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Rocco Detomo, Jr. – 4D time-lapse seismic reservoir monitoring of African reservoirs – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Shuki Ronen – Ocean-bottom acquisition and processing: Past, present, and future – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Peter Hatherly – A role for geophysical methods in meeting the resource requirements of the 21st century – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Sam Sun – The cheapest elastic information: How rock physics models and amplitude processing affect prestack PP inversion – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2011

• Lucy MacGregor – Integrating well log, seismic, and CSEM data for reservoir characterization – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Julian Cabrera – The state and future directions of prestack depth migration – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Tariq Alkhalifah – Seismic imaging: Kirchhoff, beam, WEM, RTM, anisotropy, What is Next? – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Tad Smith – Practical seismic petrophysics: The effective use of log data for seismic analysis – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Richard Lane – Building on 3D geological knowledge through gravity and magnetic modeling workflows at regional to local scales – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Jung-Ho Kim – Incorporating the fourth dimension into geophysical data interpretation – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia

2010

• Aldo Vesnaver – Talking and listening to reservoirs: Production monitoring by active and passive seismic – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• Efrain Mendez-Hernandez – Quantitative seismic analysis and its role in improving reservoir description and exploration results – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Susan Webb – Deep gravity—long wavelengths and measured moho – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Mike Batzle – It's the fluids that count – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Ben Clennell – Electrical properties of sedimentary rocks from DC to dielectric frequencies – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• Deva Prasad Ghosh – Geophysical issues and challenges in Southeast Asia with emphasis on Malay Basin – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia
• Alan Green – Mapping active faults using 3D ground-penetrating radar and 2D and 3D high-resolution reflection seismology: Examples from New Zealand – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South

2009

• Per Avseth – Mind the gap in seismic reservoir prediction: How rock physics can bridge the gap between qualitative geology and quantitative geophysics – Honorary Lecturer, Europe
• José M. Carcione – Physics and simulation of waves for exploration and environmental geosciences – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Samir Abdelmoaty – Multi-azimuth seismic in the Nile Delta, Egypt – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa
• Bill Goodway – The magic of Lamé – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Andrew Samuel Long – Multi-azimuth and wide-azimuth seismic: Foundations, challenges, and opportunities – Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South
• C. H. Mehta – Significance of Fresnel zones in seismic reflection prospecting – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia
• Bob Hardage – Multicomponent seismic stratigraphy – Honorary Lecturer, North America

2008

• Paulo Johann – Reservoir geophysics: Characterization and monitoring offshore Brazil – Honorary Lecturer, Latin America
• Richard Lindsay – Forgotten geophysics: A reminder that first-order effects should come first – Honorary Lecturer, North America
• Shivaji Dasgupta – Reservoir geophysics: Characterization and monitoring offshore Brazil – Honorary Lecturer, Middle East & Africa

2007

• Steve Chang – Recent advances in borehole geophysics applications – Honorary Lecturer, South & East Asia