Awards

CSEG Best Poster Award

2007

BEST GEOPHYSICAL POSTER
Hassan H. Hassan, Robert A. Charters and John W. Peirce
"Using Steerable Filters to Map Geological Features from HRAM Data of the Foothills of Northeastern British Columbia, Canada"

BEST STUDENT GEOPHYSICAL POSTER
Glenn D. Chubak, Igor B. Morozov and Shannon Blythe
"Integrated Open-Source Geophysical Processing and Visualization"

BEST GEOLOGICAL POSTER
Thanos Natras*, I. Mcllreath, C. Abaco, E. Christiaansed and D. Bourgeois
"Successful Wellbore Placement Within a Mannville Coal Seam"

Honorable Mention
G. Warfield 'Skip' Hobbs
"The Future of the Global Oil Industry: Resources, Challenges, and the Geoscience Workforce"


2006

BEST GEOPHYSICAL POSTER
Todd Mojesky, David LeMeur and Ali Karagul
"Near surface anomalies and solutions"

Honorable Mentions
Satinder Chopra, Kurt Marfurt and Vladimir Alexeev
"Curvature attribute applications to seismic data"

Satinder Chopra and John Castagna
"Seismic resolution and thin bed reflectivity inversion"

BEST GEOLOGICAL POSTER
Warren Walsh*, Cassandra Lee, Ben Kerr and Joseph Korol
"Quantifying shale gas potential of the Triassic Montney and Doig formations, northeastern British Columbia"

BEST STUDENT POSTER (Geology or Geophyscis)
Mark Radomski*, Charles Henderson, Tom Moslow and Jon-Paul Zonneveld
"Sedimentology, biostratigraphy and petrology of marine firm/hardgrounds: Middle Triassic Halfway Formation, west-central Alberta"

CSEG Honorable Mentions for Best Student Poster:
Saleh M. Al-Saleh, Gary Margrave and John Bancroft
"Designing wavefield extrapolators using a weighted least-squares with a transition band approach"

Emmanuel Bongajum
"Simultaneously acquiring 3D-3C well data during 3D surface seismic survey: a useful quality control tool"


2005

BEST STUDENT POSTER
Jason Han, Douglas Schmitt, Vadim Kravchinsky and Javier Escartin
"Laboratory comparison between seismic and magnetic anisotropy"

Honorable Mentions
Yajun Zhang and Douglas Schmitt
"A New Method to Invert Time-lapse Impedance Using Hybrid Data Transformation"

Saleh M. Al-Saleh, Daniel Nietupski, Al-Khaleej
"A robust dual summation method: Application to OBC data from the Arabian Gulf"

BEST POSTER
Satinder Chopra and Vladimir Alexeev
"Studying Seismic Textures – a promising interpretation tool"

Honorable Mentions
Satinder Chopra
"Azimuth Moveout – a promising application for pre-stack data"

Uli Theune, Douglas Schmitt, and Mauricio Sacchi
"Mapping fractures with GPR at Turtle Mountain"


2004

BEST GEOPHYSICAL POSTER
Satinder Chopra, Vladimir Alexeev, Joanne Lanteigne and Yong Xu
'Mackenzie Delta seismic case study - a reprocessing perspective'

Honorable Mentions
Arnim Haase
'Spherical Wave AVO Modeling of Converted Waves in Elastic Isotropic Media'

Yongyi Li
'Anisotropic Parameter Prediction in Clastic Rocks'

BEST STUDENT GEOPHYSICAL POSTER
Jason Z. Han, Douglas R. Schmitt, Daniel Collis and Javier Escartin
'Laboratory determination of velocity anisotropy'

Honorable Mentions
Jingping Ji and Bernd Milkereit
'Full Waveform Sonic Data From a Fast Formation'

Wen Xiao and Martyn Unsworth
'Structural imaging in the Rocky Mountain Foothills with magnetotelluric exploration'


2003

BEST GEOLOGICAL POSTER
Glen S. Stockmal
'Inferred Exposure of a "Pop-Up" Structure in the Outer Foothills, Crowsnest Pass Area, Alberta'

Honorable Mentions
Langhorne B. Smith, Courtney M. Lugert and Richard E. Nyahay
'Integrated Characterization of Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs in Trenton- Black River Carbonates of New York'

Cornel Olariu, Janok P. Bhattacharya and Liviu Giosan
'Architecture of Delta Front Deposits, More Complex than Basinward Dipping Clinoforms'

BEST GEOPHYSICAL POSTER
Satinder Chopra and Doug Pruden
'Multi-Attribute Seismic Analysis on AVO derived parameters-a case study'

Honorable Mentions
Yongyi Li, Huiming Guan and Jon Downton
'AVO in Structured Areas'

Z. Li, W. Qian, B. Milkereit, E. Adam and T. Bohlen
'AVO Analysis with Multi-Offset VSP Data'

BEST INTEGRATED POSTER
David Deline and John Dixon
'Seismic Interpretation and Physical Analog Modelling of a Sub-Surface Lateral Ramp in the Southern Canadian Rockies (Crowsnest Pass Area, S.W. Alberta)'

Honorable Mention
Michael A. Cooley, Raymond A. Price, John M. Dixon and T. Kurtis Kyser
'Structural Geology of the Southern Livingstone Range Anticlinorium and the Architecture of the Centre Peak Anticline; A Paleo-Hydrocarbon Reservoir'

BEST STUDENT POSTER
Pavlo Cholach and Douglas R. Schmitt
'Intrinsic anisotropy of shales'

Honorable Mentions
Jeff K. Beckett and John C. Bancroft
'Event detection in prestack migration using matched filters'

Steven J. Hinds and Deborah Spratt
'Seismic Structure and Stratigraphy, Balanced Cross-Sections, and Tectonic History of the eastern Trutch-Halfway River (94B, G) map areas, northeastern BC'

Daniela Vlad and Karlis Muehlenbachs
'Formation Compartmentalization Using Isotopic Fingerprints of Mudgases and Multilog Quantification'


2002

Satinder Chopra, Emil Blias, Lioudmila Chavina and Vladimir Alexeev
'High Frequency Restoration (HFR) - a new technology for seismic interpreters'