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Among his many innovations to the reflection seismic method, Kauffman is noted for conducting the first offshore seismic surveys in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell in 1937, which paved the way for offshore drilling in the Gulf. As an academic Kauffman was no less innovative, he head the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP), which conducted deep reflection seismic surveys across North America. His early work charted way for offshore drilling 71 years ago, rented shrimp boats aided physicist Sidney Kaufman in quest for Gulf of Mexico oil. Sidney Kaufman, who rented a few shrimp boats 71 years ago and pioneered a seismic study that eventually helped lead to petroleum production in the Gulf of Mexico, has died. As chief of a water seismic crew that normally operated in bays, marshes, inlets and lagoons, Kaufman in 1937 found a rock formation that extended from a bay near Corpus Christi into the Gulf, according to an account by Shell Oil Co., his employer at the time. "Renting shrimp boats for 28 a day, (Kaufman) and his crew ran seismic lines four miles out from shore," the account says. When his boss discovered what Kaufman was doing, he was furious, Kaufman recalled years later in the Shell account. He quoted the supervisor as saying: "What the hell are you doing in 65 feet of water? You know we can't drill out there."
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- Information Technology > Knowledge Management (0.40)
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Sam Kaplan is the lead author of three papers in Geophysics and three expanded abstracts, and a co-author on one paper in The Leading Edge and six expanded abstracts. In 2006 Sam started work on a PhD at the University of Alberta under the auspices of SAIG (Signal Analysis and Imaging Group). Sam worked on a diversity of new problems and always pushed for new ideas in seismic data processing and imaging. For instance, Sam developed an algorithm for leastsquares migration that uses the concept of sparsity in common image space to properly precondition the inversion. He also contributed to the understanding of time-lapse monitoring.
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Ru-Shan Wu received a B.Sc. (1962) in physics from Northwestern University, China, and a Ph.D. (1984) in geophysics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had been a visiting scientist from 1978 through 1981. He did postdoctoral research and worked as a research scientist at MIT in 1984–1985. He worked in the Institute of Geophysical Prospecting, Ministry of Geology, China, from 1962 through 1978 and at the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 1988 through 1990. He moved in 1986 to the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he is now a research geophysicist and director of the Modeling and Imaging Laboratory at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. His current research interests include seismic wave propagation and imaging in heterogeneous media, prestack depth migration, fast methods for elastic wave modeling, scattering and attenuation, holography, diffraction and scattering tomography, and general inversion of wavefields.
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Rosemary Knight has worked for more than 30 years on the challenge of using geophysical methods to image groundwater systems. Her research ranges from carefully controlled laboratory experiments to large-scale field experiments, all designed to explore new ways of remotely imaging hydrologic properties and processes. In 2008, Knight founded the Center for Groundwater Evaluation and Management, with the vision of advancing and promoting the use of geophysical methods through the development of partnerships - with real people, in the real world, with real problems. Knight has been active within the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, serving as Second Vice-President and Distinguished Lecturer, and within the American Geophysical Union, serving as the founding Chair of the Near-Surface Geophysics Focus Group, and as Associate Editor for Water Resources Research and the Journal of Geophysical Research. She helped to organize the 2008 SEG Forum on "Managing Our Groundwater Resources for the Future" and is a past member of the TLE Editorial Board.
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Romain Prioul, Adam Donald, Randy Koepsell, Zakariae El Marzouski, and Tom Bratton received 2007 Honorable Mention (Geophysics) for their paper Forward modeling of fracture-induced sonic anisotropy using a combination of borehole image and sonic logs.[1] Romain Prioul received a Ph.D. (2000) in geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. He was a research scientist in 2000–2003 at Schlumberger Cambridge Research, U. K. He has been a senior research scientist, at Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 2003–2005, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 2005. His research interests include seismic and sonic anisotropy, geo- mechanics and rock physics, and surface and downhole seis- mic reservoir monitoring.
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- Europe > United Kingdom > England > Cambridgeshire > Cambridge (0.32)
- Europe > France > Île-de-France > Paris > Paris (0.32)
- Geophysics > Borehole Geophysics (0.92)
- Geophysics > Seismic Surveying > Borehole Seismic Surveying (0.50)
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Robert Greaves and Terry Fulp are receiving the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal for their pioneering work in 4D or time-lapse seismic to monitor the fluid movement within a producing hydrocarbon reservoir. Their efforts, done while working at ARCO in 1982-83, were the first successfully repeated 3D (actually three 3Ds over a one-year period) that not only monitored the fluid movement in the reservoir, but also tied the seismic changes to the rock and fluid properties. In fact, it was in the latter part of the decade that 4D really began to attract the attention of the industry. Greaves and Fulp presented their work at the SEG Annual Meeting in 1983 and published their results in 1987 (for which they received a Best Paper in GEOPHYSICS Award). Even though Bob and Terry left the industry to pursue other earth science careers, they were recommended for this award because 4D has now become mainstream commercial technology.
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The Distinguished Achievement Award is being presented to the Institute for Exploration which is establishing a new field of research utilizing evolving technology, such as advanced mapping and imaging systems, underwater robotics, and remotely operated vehicles that are highly beneficial to the exploration geophysics industry and marine geosciences. An additional objective is to share Robert Ballard's most recent discoveries with millions of young people through his various outreach activities which include the Mystic Aquarium and the JASON Project. With support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Geographic Society, the Institute for Exploration has engineered systems designed to operate up to a maximum water depth of 3000 meters. These new underwater systems use cables with optical fibers to transmit video and other signals up to the control ship on the surface. These devices include Angus, an optical imaging towsled; Echo, a dual-frequency side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profiler; and Little Hercules, an imaging ROV.
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Donald Rockwell received the Reginald Fessenden Award in 1994. Geophysicists who have gained the stature to be considered for a major SEG award are most often distinguished in one of the following categories: vision, teaching, management, and exploration. There are those scientists with the genius of seeing the future. This vision is usually in the area of problem definition which leads eventually to a solution. The second category are geophysicists who have that special talent for teaching. This transmission of knowledge is more than the simple exchange of ideas, it is the activation of a thirst for answers.
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Precipitation is any form of water, liquid or solid aqueous deposit, that fall from the clouds in the sky. It forms in the Earth's atmosphere and then drops onto Earth's surface. Precipitation is an essential part of Earth's water cycle because it connects the ocean, land, and atmosphere. Droplets of water suspended in the air, also known as water vapor, buildup in the Earth's atmosphere. From Earth, we see water vapor in the atmosphere as clouds and/or fog.
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Pierre Goupillaud is best known for his classic 1961 paper[1] introducing the Goupilluad medium. Goupillaud's interesting life, from his time in the French Resistance to his many scientific contributions are discussed in Dean Clark's article[2]. Anyone who chooses science as a life-long vocation soon learns to value the words of Sir Isaac Newton, who said that he stood upon the shoulders of giants. Today, we honor Pierre Goupillaud for his impressive contributions to exploration geophysics, which span a period of more than four decades. As scientists, our lives are enriched not only by the professional contributions of our peers, but perhaps even more so by the warm friendships that form in our common quest to shed some light where darkness has prevailed before.
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