The Society of Geophysicists (SEG) has recognized two Mines papers presented at the SEG Image 2021 conference with top paper awards. Ali Tura, James Simmons, Matthew Copley, Sima Daneshvar, Andrea Damasceno, and James Stitt received Best Paper Presented at Image 2021 for “Impact of Joint PP/PS Inversion on shear impedance for exploration and production.”
Andy Mcaliley, who graduated with his PhD in Geophysics in Fall 2021, received Best Student Paper Presented at Image 2021 for “Machine learning inversion of geophysical data by a conditional variational autoencoder.”
Aaron Girard, Jeffrey Shragge, and Bjorn Olofsson received Honorable Mention for Best Paper Presented at Image 2021 for, “Identifyig salt flanks using low-frequency ambient OBN surface-wave seismology.”
These awards are highly competitive. Papers are chosen from more than 700 papers contributed by industry, research/labs, and academia. Winners will be officially recognized in Houston at the SEG Image 2022 conference.
Additionally, Bin Luo, Ge Jin, and Frantisek Stanek received Honorable Mention for Best Paper in the SEG journal Geophysics for “Near-field strain in distributed acoustic sensing-based microseismic observation” (see Volume 86, no. 5, Sept-Oct. 2021 issue).
Manika Prasad, Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Thomas Daley, Similoluwa Oduwole, and William Harbert received Honorable Mention for Best Paper in the SEG publication the Leading Edge for “CO2 messes with rock physics” (see Volume 40, no. 6, June 2021).
Congratulations to all!