On October 26, 2011, Mamoru Takanashi successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Colorado School of Mines. His thesis, titled "Anisotropic parameter estimation in the presence of a laterally heterogeneous overburden," introduces time- and depth-domain algorithms designed to estimate anisotropy parameters and perform seismic imaging in the presence of small-scale lateral heterogeneity.

Mamoru joined CWP in August 2008 and has worked on his thesis under the direction of Prof. Ilya Tsvankin. He will return in November 2011 to the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) and continue his work in imaging and anisotropy research for oil and gas fields. Congratulations, Mamoru!

Save the date on your calendars for the 2012 annual meeting of the Consortium Project on Seismic Inverse Methods for Complex Structures.

Date:    May 14-17, 2012

Venue: Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center

              Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

Additional information is forthcoming.

Roel Snieder receives his award from

SEG president Klaas Koster

Roel Snieder was presented with the SEG Honorary Membership award during the SEG Honors and Awards ceremony at the SEG Annual Meeting in San Antonio.

The SEG Honorary Membership is conferred upon "persons who, in the unanimous opinion of the SEG Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, have made a distinguished contribution, which warrants exceptional recognition, to exploration geophysics or a related field or the advancement of the profession of exploration geophysics through service to the Society." Roel's contribution have been in seismic interferometry, mathematical geophysics, education and public awareness. He publishes broadly both within and outside of SEG publications. Roel has over 200 publications (75 as primary author and 68 in SEG journals) and he is the author of two books.

Congratulations, Roel!

CWP at the SEG: Thank you for joining us at the CWP Semi-Annual Meeting

CWP would like to thank everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to attend our CWP Semi-Annual Meeting at the SEG Meeting in San Antonio.

Our meeting and reception provided 180-plus guests with a casual and informal opportunity to greet, meet and speak with our CWP faculty, students and staff. During the course of the meeting, CWP students discussed their research using mini-posters to CWP sponsor representatives and other meeting attendees.

It was wonderful to see all the familiar faces (as well as new ones) at our meeting! Thank you again for arranging your plans during SEG to join us.

CWP looks forward to seeing our consortium sponsor representatives again at the 2012 CWP Project Review Meeting in Breckenridge, Colorado. Please see the "Save the Date" announcement below for additional details.

The 2011-2012 CWP Newsletter is now available, including these featured articles:

• CWP now has 30 Consortium sponsors
• Ilya Tsvankin elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Roel Snieder to receive SEG Honorary Membership
• 2011 CWP Project Review Meeting
• CWP Research
• 2011 CWP Graduates

and much, much more!

Click on the image or view/download the PDF here. Should you wish to request hard copy of the CWP Newsletter, send your FULL mailing address to Shingo Sean Ishida at sishida@mines.edu.

Save the date on your calendars for the 2012 annual meeting of the Consortium Project on Seismic Inverse Methods for Complex Structures.

Date:    May 14-17, 2012

Venue: Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center

              Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

Additional information is forthcoming.

CWP welcomes four new companies in 2011 to the Consortium Project on Seismic Inverse Methods for Complex Structures, bringing the total number of CWP sponsors to 30. The new sponsors are (in alphabetical order):

• Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo (IMP)
  
• PDVSA Intevep
• Repsol
• Transform Software

CWP thanks all consortium members for their generous support!

CWP announced in 2010 a strategic decision to expand signficiantly our High Performance Computing resources and to give computing a higher profile in our research and educational program. We are pleased to report that we have already implemented the first phase of this program. This year, we will continue with a second phase in which we plan to acquire at least as many cores as we did in the preceding year. Read more details on page 6 in the 2011-2012 CWP newsletter.

 Tom Cullison (Mathematics and Computer Sciences), "An image-guided method for automatically picking common-image-point gather locations from seismic images." 

 Thesis advisor: Mahadevan Ganesh

 Co-advisor: Paul Sava.

 Chris Engelsma (Geophysics), "Interpretation of 3d seismic images using an interactive image-guided paintbrush."

 Thesis advisor: Dave Hale.

(August 2009)

The Global Energy Challenge