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Seismic Exploration & Imaging Department

The Seismic Exploration & Imaging Department teaches the full pipeline of seismic acquisition, processing, and imaging technology for high-resolution subsurface characterization. Through hands-on work in reflection seismic processing, velocity-model building, and structural imaging, students learn techniques applicable to oil and gas exploration and CO2 storage site evaluation. Graduates can take a seismic dataset all the way from acquisition to final imaging by themselves, start to finish.

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Field-based Curriculum · 23

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Full-Waveform Inversion
Full-Waveform Inversion
Teaches full-waveform inversion — fitting entire recorded wavefields — its mathe…
Norman Bleistein
Reverse-Time & Kirchhoff Migration Imaging
Reverse-Time & Kirchhoff Migration Imaging
Teaches the two routes of migration imaging — back-propagating recorded wavefiel…
Jack K. Cohen
Velocity Analysis & Normal Moveout
Velocity Analysis & Normal Moveout
Teaches, hands-on, normal-moveout velocity analysis from hyperbolic curvature of…
C. Hewitt Dix
Vibroseis & Seismic Source Technology
Vibroseis & Seismic Source Technology
Teaches the Vibroseis principle — engineered sweeps in place of impulses — and r…
John M. Crawford
Reflection Seismic Method & Land Acquisition
Reflection Seismic Method & Land Acquisition
Teaches the fundamental field methodology of reflection surveying and land-acqui…
J. Clarence Karcher
Marine Seismic Source & Sonar-Based Acquisition
Marine Seismic Source & Sonar-Based Acquisition
Teaches the physics and history of the instrumentation lineage from underwater t…
Reginald Fessenden
Seismic Data Recording & Automated Processing
Seismic Data Recording & Automated Processing
Teaches, historically and technically, how recording media and instruments gover…
Frank Rieber
Marine/Offshore Seismic Acquisition
Marine/Offshore Seismic Acquisition
Teaches the systems engineering and trade-offs of the two marine acquisition arc…
Sidney Kaufman
Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling
Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling
Teaches the design logic of deep crustal reflection profiling — scaling oil-indu…
Jack Oliver
Applied Geophysics Industry & Instrumentation Founding
Applied Geophysics Industry & Instrumentation Founding
Teaches the organisational, manufacturing and commercial infrastructure that mad…
Cecil Howard Green
Seismic Trace Inversion & Synthetic Well Logs
Seismic Trace Inversion & Synthetic Well Logs
Teaches seismic trace inversion — converting recorded traces back to impedance-l…
Roy Oliver Lindseth
Shear-Wave & Multicomponent Seismic Prospecting
Shear-Wave & Multicomponent Seismic Prospecting
Teaches shear-wave and multicomponent surveying — information beyond P waves — a…
J. Edward White
DAS Fiber-Optic Seismic Acquisition
DAS Fiber-Optic Seismic Acquisition
Teaches distributed acoustic sensing — turning ordinary fibre into thousands of …
Charles K. Kao
Surface Waves & Near-Surface Seismic
Surface Waves & Near-Surface Seismic
Teaches near-surface seismic methods — MASW and related surface-wave techniques …
Norman Haskell
Seismic Anisotropy
Seismic Anisotropy
Teaches seismic anisotropy from aligned cracks and fine layering — and the diagn…
Stuart Crampin
AVO/AVA & Rock-Physics-Based Interpretation
AVO/AVA & Rock-Physics-Based Interpretation
Teaches AVO analysis — reading fluid and lithology information from amplitude va…
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz
Traveltime Tomography & Initial Velocity
Traveltime Tomography & Initial Velocity
Teaches travel-time tomography — building initial velocity models from first arr…
Gustav Herglotz
Multiple Attenuation (SRME) & Deconvolution
Multiple Attenuation (SRME) & Deconvolution
Teaches SRME and deconvolution — predicting and removing multiples from the data…
Norman Levinson
Survey Design & Illumination Analysis
Survey Design & Illumination Analysis
Teaches survey-design methodology — computing illumination before acquisition to…
Christiaan Huygens
Simultaneous-Source Separation & Data Interpolation
Simultaneous-Source Separation & Data Interpolation
Teaches deblending of simultaneous sources and data interpolation from the viewp…
Harry Nyquist
Attenuation (Q) & Viscoelasticity
Attenuation (Q) & Viscoelasticity
Teaches quantifying and compensating seismic energy lost as heat in rocks — Q an…
Woldemar Voigt
Least-Squares Migration (LSRTM)
Least-Squares Migration (LSRTM)
Teaches least-squares reverse-time migration — reformulating imaging from a sing…
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Time-Lapse (4D) Seismic Monitoring
Time-Lapse (4D) Seismic Monitoring
Teaches 4D seismic monitoring — reading fluid change, premised on repeatability …
Emil Wiechert