Areas of Expertise

Seismic data acquisition and processing; use of 3-D seismic technology in an integrated environment or reservoir description and monitoring


Member, Organizing Committee and Opening Speaker for SEG Workshop, W-1, "The Cost of Land Seismic Data Acquisition during the Recording Process", (1999)

Member, Advisory Board, Energy & Minerals Applied Research Center, University of Colorado, (1995 - 1997)

Member and Co-Chairman, Session on 3-D Seismic Imaging, Offshore Technology Conference (1994)

Member, Organizing Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Summer Research Workshop (1993)

Member, Geophysical Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1992 - 2000)

Member and Vice Chairman, Foundation Trustee Associates, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1992 - 2001)

Member, National Geoscience Data Repository Steering Committee, National Geoscience Data Repository (1991 - 1993)

General Chairman, 59th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1989)

Member, ISEM/Geological Sciences Visiting Committee, Southern Methodist University (1989 - 1991)

Member, Advisory Board, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado (1987 - 1991)

Member, Board of Trustees External Visiting Committee, Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines (1986 - 2000)

President, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1986 - 1987)

First Vice President, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1982 - 1983)

Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, National Ocean Industries Association (1982 - 1988)

Member, Telecommunication Policy Committee, National Ocean Industries Association (1980 - 1992)

President, Dallas Geophysical Society (1979 - 1980)

General Sessions Chairman, 44th Annual Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1974)

Three-dimensional seismic integrated systems for reservoir description and monitoring, presented to Exxon Geophysical Applications Symposium, Houston, Texas, (1994)

An overview of 3-D seismic in exploration, development, and production environments, presented at Technical Transfer Conference on New Technology for the Independent Producer, Denver, Colorado, (1993)

Use of 3-D systems for reservoir monitoring--Graduate Student Seminars, University of Colorado, Department of Geological Sciences, (1993)

Use of 3-D systems for reservoir monitoring--Graduate Student Seminars, Stanford University, Geophysical Department, (1993)

Three-dimensional seismic technology--looking beneath the surface, presented to the Third Annual South Texas Oil and Gas Seminar, Laredo, Texas, (1993)

Reservoir description and monitoring with 3-D systems, presented to Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Engineering Study Group, Dallas, Texas, (1993)

Overview of geophysical techniques (with B. A. Hardage), presented to 11th Annual Advanced Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law Course, Dallas, Texas, (1993)

Geophysics: the potential and limit for reservoir description and monitoring, presented to the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Research Workshop, Rancho Mirage, California, (1993)

Paths in computer integration and management, presented at BP Exploration Computer Geoscience Conference, Houston, Texas, (1990)

Surface seismic monitoring of an active waterflood (with G. A. King and K. N. B. Dunlop), presented at the 58th Annual International Meeting and Exposition of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Anaheim, California, (1988)

SEG Presidential Address, 57th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, New Orleans, Louisiana, (1987)

SEG Presidential Address, European Association of Exploration Geophysicists, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, (1987)