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Deepwater Exploration Geophysics Challenges

May 17, 2013
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Frontier deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming more difficult as we enter deeper water, much deeper reservoirs and potential under salt. As a result, we are faced with prospects that are supported by little to no amplitude, tiny seismic bandwidth as well as flat amplitude variation with offset (AVO) that sit in [...]

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I Made A Pretty Robust Well-To-Seismic Tie

April 26, 2013
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One of the tools in the geophysical workflow is the well-to-seismic tie. This is a calibration step involving the generation of a “synthetic seismic” from well data and comparing it to actual seismic data collected over the area. It ensures robustness or goodness of fit, i.e. that interfaces and intervals interpreted on the seismic data [...]

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Why Geoscientists Need To Care About Process Efficiency

April 24, 2013
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While on vacation in the Virgin Islands, our little group took the opportunity to spend a day on Anegada. This little isle is a part of the UK, the northeasternmost of all of the Virgin Islands and “unique in that it is composed exclusively of carbonate rock … and that its relief is only 25 [...]

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The Virgin Islands and Northern Ohio

April 23, 2013
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Places I’ve been in the last two weeks, that is. D and I were on the US and British Virgin Islands for 8 days. I highly recommend the island of St. John, with day trips to the other islands including Jost van Dyke, Anegada and Tortola, over St. Thomas. Vacation is supposed to look like [...]

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March Madness 2013: Mammals Edition!

March 14, 2013
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Did you know hippos have 20-inch canines and are responsible for more human deaths in Africa annually than any other animal? That when attacked the wombat runs to its burrow and protects the entrance with its armored rear end? And the capybara is the largest South American rodent and keeps anacondas fat? Well, you would [...]

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Science Online: Information Sharing First; The Medium Is Not The Message

February 26, 2013

Recently, several geobloggers brought up an excellent point on science communication: Now that it has been established that researchers need to do more outreach to share their work, HOW? The barriers are plenty – sharing on the internet takes energy, time, some understanding of the different online outlets, putting words together in an explanatory and [...]

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February 16, 2013

Russia! Bolide strike! Meteor impact! What does this all mean and why does the media keep using these terms interchangeably? Here: How to tell the difference between a meteor, meteorite, asteroid and comet. A bolide is a projectile fireball associated with meteor activity. Daring Bolide is the name of my Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction tribute blog (apologies [...]

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Accretionary Wedge 55: Geo Injuries

February 6, 2013
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It’s February 2013, which means it’s my turn to host the Accretionary Wedge! The Accretionary Wedge is a geology blog carnival that was started in August 2007. Editions will be monthly (roughly) and hosted on a different geoscience blog each time. The accident-prone person that I am, I chose the topic of Geo Injuries. Look [...]

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