The Geophysics Department would like to congratulate Dr. Ali Tura, Dr. Aaron Girard, Dr. Bin Luo, Dr. Andy McAliley, and Dr. Frantisek Stanek, on receiving “Top 25 Paper” recognition of their presentations during IMAGE 2021 – the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy. The SEG Board of Directors and the SEG Technical Program Committee congratulates them on their excellent technical presentations as standout Papers from a field of 709 presented during the IMAGE 2021 conference. It is a great honor to have five papers affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines Geophysics Department recognized for this distinction. Drs. Tura, Stanek and Luo presented work from the Reservoir Characterization Project, Dr. Girard works with the Center for Wave Phenomena, and Dr. McAliley’s work was in conjunction with the Center for Gravity, Electrical and Magnetic Studies. Congratulations!

Dr. Ali Tura – “Impact of joint PP/PS inversion on shear-impedance estimation for exploration and production”

Dr. Frantisek Stanek – “Reservoir characterization using DAS microseismic events”

Dr. Bin Luo – “Near-field strain of microseismic events in downhole DAS data”

Dr. Aaron Girard – “Identifying salt flanks using low-frequency ambient OBN surface-wave”

Dr. Andy McAliley – “Machine learning inversion of geophysical data by a conditional variational autoencoder”