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CSEG Best Paper Award

1960 Dr. A.E. Schiedegger
"Fault Motion as Determined by Earthquake Seismograph"
1961 Arne Junger
"Relation between Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Visual Improvement of Seismic Records"
1962 David W. Smith and A.T. Lamb
"Refraction Profiles Over the Southern Rocky Mountains Trench Area of British Columbia"
1963 Dr. Robert Bostrom
"Some Effects of Prolonged Seismicity"
1964 (no award given)
1965 Dr. Gareth H.S. Jones
"Geophysical Research at Suffield"
1966 R.M. Clowes and E.R. Kanasewich and G.L. Cumming
"Deep Crustal Seismic Reflections at Near Vertical Incidence"
1967 (no award given)
1968 (no award given)
1969 Rafael Cruz
"Deconvolution: Fact and Fancy"
1970 Helmut Hofer and William Varga
"Seismogeologic Experience and the Beaufort Sea"
1971 Thomas L. Davis
"Velocity Variations around Leduc Reefs"
1972 Henry B. Sawatzky
"Viewfield - Producing Fossil Crater"
1973 D.E. Birnie and W.G. Ayrton
"Regional Geology and the Grand Banks"
1974 A.E. Wren
"Contouring the Contour Map - A New Perspective"
1975 A.E. Dumont
"Using Seismic information to Improve Drilling Efficiency in the Mackenzie Delta"
1976 Noel A. Cleland
"The Economics of the Developing Canadian Arctic Gas"
1977 Geoff T. Bennett and John Lofthouse
"Extended Arrays for Marine Seismic Acquisition"
1978 John D. Boyd and E. Ross Crain
"Determination to Seismic Stratigraphy Models"
1979 F.E. Baker and G.W. Focht
"Geophysical Case History of the Two Hills Colony Gas Field of Alberta"
1980 Ron Mckenzie
"The Hibernia Structure"
1981 Dr. Ron Clowes and Dr. Earl Davis
"Rapid Diagnesis of Marine Turbidites in the Winona Basin"
1982

Dan Hampson and Larry Mewhort
"Use of Vertical Seismic Profile to Investigate a Multiple Problem in Western Canada"

K.F. Sprenke and E.R. Kanasewich
"Gravity Inversion in Western Canada"
1983 Fred M. Peterson and Wilf C. Reynish
"Three-D Seismic - A Cost Effective Approach"
1984 Gary Taylor
"Seismic Resolution and Field Design, Success and Failure at Taber"
1988 John Peirce
"Seismic stratigraphy in a pelagic environment: ODP drilling on Broken Ridge (Indian Ocean)"
1989 Larry Herd
"Seismic Acquisition in the People’s Republic of China"
1990

Harrison, M.P., and Stewart,R.R.
"Converted Wave Processing: Carrot Creek, Alberta"

Eaton, D.W.S, Slotboom, R.R. and Stewart, R.R.
"Depth Variant Converted Wave Stacking"
1991 Doug Pruden, Jeffries,S. and Goetz, P.A.
"Structural Architecture and Evolution of the Dawson Creek Graben Complex, Alberta and British Columbia"
1992 Mark Harrison
"Anisotropy and Migration for Converted Wave Data"
1993 John Varsek and Rod Morris
"Limitations on the performance of field arrays and FK filters: Models, case histories and remedies"
1994 Doug Uffen
"Swan Hills Unit #1 : Adding Value with Seismic Through Reservoir Delineation and Characterization"
1995

John Bancroft, Shaowu Wang, Darren Foltinek, Hugh Geiger
"Common scatter point (CSP) prestack migration"

Doug Uffen and Rick Wallace (best paper presented at either a luncheon or the convention)
"Swan Hills Unit #1 : Adding Value with Seismic Through Reservoir Delineation and Characterization"
1996 John Eastwood
"3D Seismic Monitoring for Enhanced Thermal Recovery"
1997 William Goodway
"Improved AVO fluid detection lithology discrimination using Lame's petro-physical parameters: 'λρ', 'µρ' and 'λ/µ fluid stack', from P and S inversions"
1998 Don Lawton, Jennifer Leslie and Rob Vestrum
"Slip Sliding Away - Some practical implications of Seismic Velocity Anisotropy on Depth Imaging"
1999 Karen Brawley-Hogg
"Use of AVO and residual Mapping to Delineate Gething Reservoir Sands in N.E. B.C.: an Integrated and Practical Approach"
2000 Yongyi Li, Lee Hunt and Jon Downton
"Does physics of an exploration play support AVO analysis in prospect evaluation"
2002

BEST GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Gary F. Margrave and M.P. Lamoureux
"Gabor Deconvolution"

Honorable Mentions
Brian Rex, John Parkin and Connie McLaren
"Rosemary 3C3D: An AVO, VSP and Converted Wave Case Study"

Steve Overell and P. Moroney
"Frontier Exploration Offsetting the Gippsland Basin"

Henning Kuehl and Mauricio Sacchi
"Least-squares wave-equation migration for AVP/AVA inversion"

Andy Calvert and Dave Aldridge
"Ambiguity in Resolving the Elastic Parameters of Gas Sands from Wide-Angle AVO"

Ian Jones, N.X. Bernitsas, P.A. Farmer, Jennifer Leslie, M.L. Bridson
"Anisotropic Ambiguities"

David Monk
"Canadian Seismic with a Thump"

Petra Buziak and Patrick Elliott
"The "Glaustrocod" Geological and Geophysical Exploration Story"

David C. Henley
"New imaging results at the Chan Chich archaeological site"

Best Student Paper
Jonathan E. Downton and Larry Lines
"AVO NMO"
2003

BEST GEOLOGICAL PAPER
Michael Johnson and Robert W. Dalrymple
"Negative accommodation and its influence on reservoir geometry and quality: The Lower Cretaceous Cadomin Formation of the Deep Basin Area AB"

Honorable Mentions
Ken Ratcliffe, Amanda M. Wright, D.S. Wray, Brian A. Zaitlin, Dan Potocki, A. Morton and C. Hallsworth
"Alternative correlation methods in low accommodation fluvial setting: an example from the (Lower Creataceous) Basal Quartz, Southern Alberta"

David Selby and Robert A. Creaser
"Absolute dating of bitumen – Application of the 187Re-1870s isotope system: The first results from the Polaris Mississippi Valley – type Zn-Pb deposit, Nunavut, Canada"

BEST GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Dave Timko, Kristy Howe and Richard Spiteri
"Seismic calibration to gamma ray logs"

Honorable Mention
Jon Downton and Laurence Lines
"High Resolution AVO"

BEST INTEGRATED PAPER
Barry Hebner and Mike Doty
"Discovery of a Pembina Nisku Oil Pool: A Case History of a Nisku Shelf Edge Play"

Honorable Mention
J. Helen Isaac and Donald C. Lawton
"Benefits of Integrated Seismic and Gravity Exploration: An Example fromNorman Wells, NWT"

BEST STUDENT PAPER
Michele Asgar-Deen
"A case study of barite as a stratigraphic tool: an indicator of pauses in sedimentation?"

Honorable Mentions
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"

C. L. M. Armeneau and R. J. Spencer
"Fluid movement during propagation of the Rundle thrust"
2004

BEST GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Samuel H. Gray
"Nuts and Bolts of Beam Migration"

Honourable Mention
Jonathan Downton and Laurence Lines
"Three term AVO waveform inversion"

Stephen M. Thomas
"Where the hell is that well?"

BEST STUDENT GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Jamin Cristall, Moritz Beyreuther, and Felix Herrman
"Curvelet processing and Imaging: 4D adaptive subtraction"

Honourable Mentions
Andrew J. Royle, John D. Logel and Laurence R. Lines
"AVO investigation of the Ben Nevis reservoir at the Hebron asset"

Faranak Mahmoudian and Gary F. Margrave
"AVO inversion of multicomponent data for P and S impedance"
2005

BEST STUDENT ORAL PAPER
S.Napier, D.Oldenburg, C.Farquharson, J.Cristall
"EM geophysics for hydrocarbons:Inversion applications and current research at UBC-GIF"

Honourable Mentions
Saleh Al-Saleh, Gary Margrave and Hugh Geiger
"The FOCI method versus the WLSQ and Hale’s wavefield extrapolation methods"

Jawwad Ahmad, Douglas Schmitt, Dean Rokosh, John Pawlowicz, Mark Fenton, Alain Plouffe
"Seismic Imaging of Quaternary Channels, Rainbow Lake, Northern Alberta, Canada"

BEST ORAL PAPER

Gary Margrave, Hugh Geiger, Saleh Al-Saleh, and Michael Lamoureux
"A stable, accurate, and efficient approach to explicit depth migration"

Honourable Mentions
Felix Herrmann and Peyman Moghaddam
"Non-linear regularization in seismic imaging"

Margaret Stratton and Peter Vermeulen
"The effects of anisotropy on Canadian foothills exploration: A case history"
2006

BEST GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Rob Pinnegar
"Time-Frequency Polarization Analysis and Filtering"

Honorable Mentions for Best Geophysical Paper:
Eric Forgues, Julien Meunier, Christian Hubans and Rick Edwards
"Steam Injection Seismic Monitoring Experiment"

Keith Hirsche and Francis Ma
"Reducing Uncertainty in Time-lapse Seismic Interpretation for Thermal Applications"

BEST GEOLOGICAL PAPER
Gareth Jones* and Yitian Xiao
"Predicting Dolomite Geobodies: Exploitable Insights from Reactive Transport Models"

Best Student Paper (geol or geophys)
Renee Burton-Ferguson*, Michael Enachescu and Richard Hiscott
"Preliminary seismic interpretation and maps for the Paleogene-Neogene (Tertiary) succession, Orphan Basin"

CSEG Honorable Mentions for Best Student Paper
Mostafa Naghizadeh and Mauricio Sacchi
"FX and FK interpolation methods and further developments for irregularly spaced traces"

Chuandong (Richard) Xu and Robert Stewart
"Seismic Attenuation (Q) Estimation from VSP Data"

Best Well Logging Paper
Bruce Balcom
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Petroleum Cores"

Best Well Logging Student Paper
Chad Glemser
"Petrophysical Evaluation of Carbonates from the Weyburn Oil Field using Synchrotron Xray Computed Microtomography"
2007

BEST GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Tony Johns and Raul Sarmiento
"Anisotropic PP and PSv Prestack Depth Migration of 4C (OBC) Seismic Data, Offshore Trinidad"

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

BEST STUDENT GEOPHYSICAL PAPER
Mostafa Naghizadeh and M.D. Sacchi
"Multi-step Auto-Regressive Reconstruction of Nonuniformly Sampled, Aliased Seismic Records"

BEST GEOLOGICAL PAPER
S. George Pemberton and Murray K. Gringras
"The Role of Bioturbation in Low Permeability Gas Charged Reservoirs"

BEST STUDENT GEOLOGICAL PAPER
Chad Glemser, Tom Kotzer and Chris Hawkes
"Investigation of Pore Structure Within the Weyburn Oilfield using Synchrotron Microtomography"

 

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