2021 YEARBOOK SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS 2021 YEARBOOK CONTENTS Awards Publications Honors and Awards 2021 GEOPHYSICS Editors Distinguished Awards 2021 The Leading Edge Editorial Board Achievement Awards 2020 Interpretation Editorial Board Books Editorial Board Governance 2020–2021 Board of Directors SEG Foundation 2020–2021 Council Members SEG Foundation Board of Directors 2020–2021 Committee Rosters SEG Regional Advisory Committees SEG Subsidiaries Task Forces SEAM Corporation Board of Directors SEG Representatives SEG Global, Inc. Board of Directors Affiliated Societies and Related Organizations SEG Business Office Staff 2021 Calendar Sections and Associated Societies Student Chapters Membership Membership Certificates Corporate Members In Memoriam 2 Honors and Awards 2021 Understanding that one of the most important functions of a professional society is honoring those who have made significant contributions to the profession and to science, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is recognizing the recipients of its 2021 Honors and Awards during a ceremony on 28 September 2021 at the 91st Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Maurice Ewing Medal ..............................................................Rosemary Knight Honorary Membership Award ................................................Arthur C. H. Cheng Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal ...................................................Joseph A. Dellinger Life Membership Award ..........................................................Reinaldo Michelena Reginald Fessenden Award ....................................................Chengbo Li Reginald Fessenden Award ....................................................Boris Gurevich Reginald Fessenden Award ....................................................Estella Atekwana J. Clarence Karcher Award .....................................................Niels Grobbe J. Clarence Karcher Award .....................................................Xukai Shen J. Clarence Karcher Award .....................................................Jiajia Sun Outstanding Educator Award ..................................................Deyan Draganov Outstanding Educator Award ..................................................Kelly Liu Special Commendation ...........................................................Isaac J. Crumbly Special Commendation ...........................................................Yang Liu Craig J. Beasley Award for Social Contribution .................Tanvi Arora Distinguished Awards 2021 SEG Distinguished Lecturer, January - July .......................Lucy M. MacGregor SEG-AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, August - December .....Ali Tura SEG Honorary Lecturer, Latin America ................................Miguel Eduardo Bosch SEG Honorary Lecturer, Europe .............................................Adriana Citlali Ramírez SEG Honorary Lecturer, Middle East and Africa ................Jack P. Dvorkin SEG Honorary Lecturer, North America ...............................Mark Zoback SEG Honorary Lecturer, Pacific South ..................................Xiaogui Miao SEG Honorary Lecturer, South and East Asia .....................Nimisha Vedanti SEG Virtual Near Surface Global Lecturer ..........................John H. Bradford Achievement Awards 2020 Best Paper Presented at SEG’s 90th Annual Meeting—Online Experience “A logical error in Gassmann poroelasticity,” by Leon Thomsen Best Poster Paper Presented at SEG’s 90th Annual Meeting—Online Experience “A workflow of separating and imaging diffraction wave by using deep learning network: An application of GPR data,” by Ming Ma, Rui Zhang, and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin Best Student Paper Presented at SEG’s 90th Annual Meeting—Online Experience “Event detection using a fast matched filter algorithm — An efficient way to deal with big,” by Hanh Bui, University of Alberta Best Student Poster Paper Presented at SEG’s 90th Annual Meeting—Online Experience “Wasserstein cycle-consistent generative adversarial network for improved seismic impedance inversion: Example on 3D SEAM model,” by Ao Cai, Rice University Best Paper in Interpretation in 2020 “Subsurface basement, structure, stratigraphy, and timing of regional tectonic events affecting the Guajira margin of northern Colombia,” by Eleine Vence and Paul Mann Best Paper in GEOPHYSICS in 2020 “Estimation of in situ hydrocarbon saturation of porous rocks from borehole measurements of spontaneous potential,” by Joshua Bautista-Anguiano and Carlos Torres-Verdín Best Paper in The Leading Edge in 2020 “SaltNet: A production-scale deep learning pipeline for automated salt model building” by Satyakee Sen, Sribharath Kainkaryam, Cen Ong, and Arvind Sharma 3 2020–2021 Board of Directors PRESIDENT DIRECTOR AT LARGE Maurice M. Nessim Maria Angela Capello PRESIDENT-ELECT DIRECTOR AT LARGE Anna Catarina Shaughnessy Sherif M. Hanafy FIRST VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR AT LARGE Scott W. Singleton Brandy Bridgett Hawkins SECOND VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR AT LARGE Bruce Zhucheng Shang David E. Lumley VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR AT LARGE Baishali Roy Kurt J. Marfurt TREASURER DIRECTOR AT LARGE Peter W. Cramer Tad M. Smith PAST PRESIDENT CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL Rick Miller Gustavo José Carstens SECRETARY James C. White 4 2020–2021 SEG Council Members Chair of the Council Geophysical Society of Pittsburgh [1] Gustavo José Carstens Joel G. Starr Vice Chair Geophysical Society of Tulsa [1] John L. J. Duhault Austin Bailey Jackson Geophysical Society (JGS) [1] Section Representatives Karl J. Kaufmann Asociación Argentina de Geólogos y Geofísicos Petroleros (AAGGP) [2] Korean Society of Earth and Exploration Geophysicists (KSEG) [1] Luis Alberto Vernengo Dong-Joo Min José Curcio National Committee of Geophysicists of Azerbaijan [1] Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofísicos del Petróleo (ACGGP) [1] Said Davud Sadykhov Flover Gregorio Rodriguez Near Surface Technical Section [2] Asociación Mexicana de Geofísicos de Exploración (AMGE) [2] Chester Joseph Weiss Humberto Salazar Catherine Truffert Sergio Chávez-Pérez Oslo Society of Exploration Geophysicists (OSEG) [1] Association of Hungarian Geophysicists (MGE) [1] Volodya Valeriev Hlebnikov Gábor Zelei Pacific Coast Section of SEG (PCS) [1] Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) [2] Gary Austin Myers David William Annetts Permian Basin Geophysical Society (PBGS) [1] Kate Elizabeth Robertson Ronald L. Bianco Bay Area Geophysical Society (BAGS) [1] Potomac Geophysical Society (PGS) [1] Michael J. Wilt Catherine Blain Enomoto Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS) [1] Romanian Society of Geophysics [1] Micki Allen Victor Mocanu Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) [2] San Antonio Geophysical Society [1] Kathleen Dorey Robert L. Critchlow Nanna Eliuk Scandinavian Visualization Society [1] Chamber of Geophysical Engineers of Turkey (CGET) [1] Francisco Porturas Mehmet E. Candansayar Sezione Italiana EAGE-SEG (IESS) [1] Coastal Bend Geophysical Society (CBGS) [1] Andrea Tognarelli Subbarao Yelisetti Sociedad Venezolana de Ingenieros Geofísicos (SOVG) [1] Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG) [1] Miguel Eduardo Bosch Serge Alexander Shapiro Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Algeria [1] Dhahran Geoscience Society (DGS) [3] Mohamed Farfour Abdulaziz Saad Almansour Nasher M. AlBinHassan Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Port Harcourt [1] Khalaf Al Temimi Philip Chukwuzitere Ajaebili Emirates Society of GeoScience (ESG) [1] Society of Exploration Geophysicists, South China [1] Guillaume Cambois Shouli Qu Geophysical Society of Alaska [1] Society of Petroleum Geophysicists, India (SPG) [1] Loren M. Zeigler Rajeev Tandon Geophysical Society of Houston [5] South African Geophysical Association (SAGA) [1] Peter Myles Duncan Reece Van Buren Klaas Koster Southeastern Geophysical Society (SGS) [1] Craig Jackson Beasley Trevor Alan Bollmann Dennis A. Yanchak Lillian Comegys Unión Geofísica Mexicana, A.C. (UGM) [1] Jonas D. De Basabe Geophysical Society of Oklahoma City [2] Alex Biholar R. Kim Guyer The number of Section representatives for each Section is listed in brackets. Section and Associated Society representatives listed above were representatives during the 1 August 2020 to 31 July 2021 Council year. 5 District Representatives DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 4 DISTRICT 7 DISTRICT 10 Patrice Nsoga Mahob (2022) Douglas R. Schmitt (2022) Anton Bogrash (2022) Sankhadip Bhattacharya (2022) Allen J. Bertagne (2021) Ray George Earley (2021) Isabelle Lecomte (2021) Abdulrahman A. Alshuhail (2021) DISTRICT 2 DISTRICT 5 DISTRICT 8 DISTRICT 11 Tracy J. Stark (2022) Rachel Newrick (2022) Horst Rueter (2022) Yang Liu (2022) Kathryn Hardy (2021) Jennifer M. Leslie-Panek (2021) Dirk Johannes Gajewski (2021) How-Wei Chen (2021) DISTRICT 3 DISTRICT 6 DISTRICT 9 DISTRICT 12 Sarah Elizabeth Shearer Gach (2022) Ana Curcio (2022) Uche Irene Aigbokhai (2022) Ahmad Riza Ghazali (2022) Tiziana Vanorio (2021) Maria Angelica Bejarano Castillo (2021) Ifeanyichukwu Samuel Obi (2021) Kim Frankcombe (2021) Terms of District Representatives end on 31 July of the year indicated in parentheses. Each District is allotted two representatives. 2020–2021 Committee Rosters Advisory Colin Michael Sayers .....................................................................Member Robert Ronald Stewart ........................................................................ Chair Josh Sellars ...................................................................................Member William