Faculty Awards and Recognitions

faculty

 

Recipient

Award
Carl Norman
2003 - 2004		 President's Award, Houston Geological Society
 
Kevin Burke
2004 Geological Society of America Structural Geology and Tectonics Career Award
1982-1983 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer
1990-92 Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council
   
Janok Bhattacharya
2006 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer
   
Daewon Byun
1999 Environmental Protection Agency Silver Medal Award for Development of Models-3 CMAQ
   
John F. Casey
1995-1996 Distinguished Lecturer -Joint Oceanographic Institutes and U.S. Science Advisory Committee
   
Henry Chafez
1984 S.E.P.M. Outstanding Paper Award, 1984, for: Chafetz, H.S., and Folk, R.L.,Travertines: Depositional morphology and the bacterially constructed constituents: Jour. Sed. Petrol.,54:289-316.
   
John Castagna
2006 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Reginald Fessenden Award
2001 Society of Exploration Geophysicists TLE Best Paper Award
1995 Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Distinguished Lecturer
   
Fred Hilterman
2004 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Cecil Green Enterprise Awardexternal
2000-2001 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Distinguished Instructor Short Course (DISC) Lecturerexternal (2000-2001) 21worldwide presentations
1988 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Best Presentation Award
1985-1986 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Distinguished Lecturer
1984-1985 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer
1985 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Classic Paper of Past 25 Years
1984 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Virgil Kauffman Gold Medalexternal
1970 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Best Paper Awardexternal
   
Kurt Marfurt
2006 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Distinguished Instrutor Short Course(DISC):"Seismic attributes for exploration and reservoir characterization"
1998 Best Paper Award in Geophysicsexternal: "3-D seismic atributes using a running window semblance-based algorithm" (with R. L.Kirlin, S.L. Farmer, and M. S. Bahorich).
1987 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Outstanding Presentation Award: "Seismic Modeling: Recent Advances and the Road Ahead"
   
Robert Sheriff
1969 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Virgil Kauffman Gold Medalexternal for outstanding contribution to geophysics
1977 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Distinguished Lecturer
1993 Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics Distinguished Lecturer
1996 Special Commendation Awardexternal, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
1998 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Maurice Ewing Medalexternal of for lifetime work in geophysics, SEG's highest medal.
   
Kurt-Martin Strack
2005 Society of Petrophysicist and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) Distinguished Lecturer
2003 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Reginald Fessenden Awardexternal
2003 Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
2003 Technical Achievement Award, SPWLA
2003 Russian Academy of Sciences Kapitsa Gold Medal of Honor
1998-1999 Distinguished Lecturer Society of Petroleum Engineers on Through Casing Resistivity
   
Arthur B. Weglein
2003 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Distinguished Lecturerexternal
 
Allied Geophysical Laboratories, Department of Geosciences, University of Houston
   
1997 SEG Distinguished Achievement Awardexternal
  The award is given from time to time to a company, institution, or other organiza-tion for a specific technical contribution or contributions that have, in the opinion of the SEG Honors and Awards Committee and the Executive Committee, substan-tially advanced the science of exploration geophysics.
   
Best Paper Presented by a Student at the Annual Meeting
   
Chris Harding
2000

"Multi-modal investigation of geoscientific data—adding touch and sound to 3D visualization of surface-based data," Chris Harding and John Caseyexternal
 
Cory Hoelting
2002

A preliminary study of salt flank illumination at Vinton Dome, Louisinana: Do we need lateral wavefield continuation? Cory Hoelting, Mariana Gherasim, Warrenn Duncan, Kurt Marfurt and Hua-wei Zhouexternal.
 
Yardenia Martínez
2005

Mapping geology and structure using multispectral and hyperspectral data and evaluating topographic correction methods: Case study, Salmon River Mountains of east-central Idaho, Yardenia Martínez, Shuhab Khan, Paul Link.