J. Clarence Karcher Award
To honor the memory of J. Clarence Karcher and his enormous contribution to exploration geophysics, the J. Clarence Karcher Award is awarded in recognition of significant contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics by a young geophysicist of outstanding abilities who merits such recognition. Recipients must be less than 35 years of age on November 1 of the year preceding presentation of the award. A maximum of five awards can be given each year.*
SEG's Honors and Awards Committee seeks nominations each year to recognize deserving individuals of the J. Clarence Karcher Award. To ensure that candidates receive proper consideration, nominations must be submitted by January 1. This allows the committee sufficient time for thorough evaluation and recommendations to the SEG Board of Directors. Nominations are accepted at https://seg.org/honors-and-awards-nomination/.
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Recipients of the J. Clarence Karcher Award
- 2026 Yunan Yang
- 2026 Hongyu Sun
- 2026 Mingliang Liu
- 2025 Lindsey Heagy
- 2025 Zhendong Zhang
- 2025 Jingjing Zong
- 2024 Eileen Martin
- 2024 Chao Song
- 2024 Lele Zhang
- 2024 Jidong Yang
- 2024 Ariel Lellouch
- 2023 Vladimir Kazei
- 2023 Tao Zhao
- 2022 Mehdi Aharchaou
- 2022 Leonardo Azevedo
- 2022 Shuvajit Bhattacharya
- 2021 Niels Grobbe
- 2021 Xukai Shen
- 2021 Jiajia Sun
- 2020 Fangyu Li
- 2020 Siddharth Misra
- 2020 Xinming Wu
- 2019 Xinding Fang
- 2019 Hejun Zhu
- 2018 Yunyue Elita Li
- 2018 Matteo Ravasi
- 2018 Tieyuan Zhu
- 2017 Tristan van Leeuwen
- 2017 Waruntorn (Jane) Kanitpanyacharoen
- 2017 Sjoerd de Ridder
- 2016 Nishank Saxena
- 2016 Dario Grana
- 2015 German Rubino
- 2015 Joost van der Neut
- 2015 Yingcai Zheng
- 2014 Ivan Vasconcelos
- 2014 Elliot Grunewald
- 2013 Sam T. Kaplan
- 2013 Gilles Hennenfent
- 2013 David F. Halliday
- 2012 Pawan Dewangan
- 2012 Jyoti Behura
- 2012 Alison E. Malcolm
- 2011 Ramesh (Neelsh) Neelamani
- 2011 Guojian Shan
- 2011 Dr. Mostafa Naghizadeh
- 2010 Jeffrey Shragge
- 2010 Deyan Draganov
- 2009 Haiyan Zhang
- 2009 Bogdan G. Nita
- 2008 Dirk-Jan van Manen
- 2007 Robert G. Clapp
- 2007 Matthew M. Haney
- 2007 Antoine Guitton
- 2006 Kristopher A. Innanen
- 2005 Simon A. Shaw
- 2005 Mustafa Naser Al-Ali
- 2005 Andrey V. Bakulin
- 2004 Yu Zhang
- 2004 Henning Kuehl
- 2003 Edward Jenner
- 2002 Rob W. Vestrum
- 2002 Oleg V. Mikhailov
- 2001 Sergey B. Fomel
- 2001 Muhammad M. Saggaf
- 2000 Tapan Mukerji
- 2000 Tamas Nemeth
- 2000 Fernanda Araújo Gasparotto
- 1999 Kenneth H. Matson
- 1999 Andreas Rüger
- 1998 Tariq Ali Alkhalifah
- 1998 Jörg Schleicher
- 1998 John E. Eastwood
- 1997 Vladimir Grechka
- 1997 Spyros K. Lazaratos
- 1997 Eric Verschuur
- 1996 Maarten de Hoop
- 1996 James W. Rector III
- 1996 David E. Lumley
*Award criteria changed from a maximum of three awards each year to a maximum of five awards in March 2024.