Geophysicists
Here I list some personal homepage of geophysicists based on my experience and interests.
Jon F. Claerbout has been a leading geophysicist since the later half of the 20th Century. He pioneered the use of computers in processing and filtering seismic exploration data, eventually developing the field of time series analysis and seismic wave propagation. He is the founder of the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP), the first geophysical research consortium funded by the oil and gas industry. He was one of the first scientists to emphasize that computational methods threaten the reproducibility of research unless open access is provided to both the data and the software underlying a publication. He developed SEPlib, a complete and freely distributed seismic data processing software package.
Dave Hale is a professor at the Colorado School of Mines and a former director of the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP). He received the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 1989 for his work on dip-moveout (DMO) processing of seismic data. He developed Mines Java Toolkit, an open-source software for scientific computing. He is also a major contributor of Seismic Unix.
Biondo Biondi is a professor of Geophysics at Stanford University. He published a book, 3-D Seismic Imaging , that is the first text book to introduce the theory of seismic imaging from the 3-D perspective. In 2004, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) has honored Biondo with the Reginald Fessenden Award for his development of azimuthal moveout (AMO).
Sergey Fomel is a professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin, with a joint appointment between the Bureau of Economic Geology and the Department of Geological Sciences. He devotes part of his time to developing Madagascar, an open-source software package for geophysical data analysis.
Paul Sava is a professor of Geophysics at Colorado School of Mines, where he is a PI and served as Director of the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) between 2014-2018. He is a recipient of the Reginald Fessenden Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 2007 for his work on wave-equation angle-domain imaging.
Norman Bleistein one of the founders (with fellow mathematician Jack K. Cohen) of the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) first at the University of Denver, which later relocated to the Colorado School of Mines. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s top mathematicians in exploration geophysics. He established true-amplitude Kirchhoff migration with mathematic rigor.
Öz Yilmaz is a leading geophysicist who authored a famous book Seismic Data Analysis.
George A. McMechan is a professor at UT Dallas, where he founded The Center for Lithospheric Studies.
José M. Carcione is a senior geophysicist at the OGS. He authored a famous book Wave Fields in Real Media: Wave Propagation in Anisotropic, Anelastic, Porous and Electromagnetic Media.
William W. Symes is a professor at Rice University, where he founded The Rice Inversion Project (TRIP) in 1992. He has worked in many areas of applied and numerical mathematics, including numerical methods for wave modeling, scientific software engineering, and theory of, and algorithms for, seismic inversion.
Gary F. Margrave is Emeritus Director of CREWES, and a major contributor of CREWES MATLAB Software Library (CMSL). He authored a book Numerical Methods of Exploration Seismology: With Algorithms in MATLAB.
Kristopher Innanen is the director of CREWES.
Mauricio D Sacchi is a professor of Geophysics at the University of Alberta. He is director of Signal Analysis and Imaging Group (SAIG), which has become recognized for the development of algorithms for multi-dimensional seismic data reconstruction, de-noising and the application of sparsity promoting methods to seismic data processing. He also contributes to SeismicLab, a MATLAB seismic data processing package.
Felix J. Herrmann is Director of Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modelling (SLIM), a widely recognized world leader in the development of the next generation of seismic acquisition and imaging technology for the oil & gas industry.
Jean Virieux is a professor at University Grenoble Alpes, and a core member of SEISCOPE Consortium. He also maintains SEISCOPE OPTIMIZATION TOOLBOX, a set of FORTRAN 90 optimization routines dedicated to the resolution of unconstrained and bound constrained nonlinear minimization problems.
Tariq Alkhalifah is a professor at KAUST. His research interests are in imaging and velocity model building for exploring seismic data with special emphasis on media that exhibit anisotropic behavior of wave propagation. He is the head of Seismic Wave Analysis Group (SWAG).
Gerard Schuster is a professor at KAUST.
Jeroen Tromp is director of Theoretical & Computational Seismology.
Eric M. Dunham is an associate professor at Stanford university.
Andreas Fichtner is Associate Professor for Seismology and Wave Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Sverre Holm is a professor of acoustic imaging and signal processing at the University of Oslo. He authored the book Waves with Power-Law Attenuation.
Bradley Treeby is a PI at Biomedical Ultrasound Group. He is a major contributor to k-Wave.
Leonardo Uieda is a core member of PINGA. He is a major contributor of Fatiando a Terra and Tesseroids.
Florian M. Wagner is a geophysical research associate at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Matthias Möbius is an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, he provides nice Teaching material for Numerical methods.
Geophysics Group
CREWES is an applied geophysical research group concentrating on the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of multicomponent seismic data.
Signal Analysis and Imaging Group (SAIG) consortium at the University of Alberta is recognized for the development of algorithms for multi-dimensional seismic data reconstruction, de-noising and the application of sparsity promoting methods to seismic data processing.
Geophysical Institute (GPI) at KIT develop open-source software on GPIAG.
Wave Inversion Technology (WIT) aims to develop the most accurate and efficient seismic modelling, imaging, and inversion using elastic and acoustic methods including high-performance computing environments.
The Center for Lithospheric Studies is a research institute devoted to the study of the lithosphere through geophysical and geochemical means.
Biomedical Ultrasound Group aim to bring together researchers in acoustics, medical physics, and computer science with doctors and front-line users in medicine and the life sciences. They develop an open-source acoustics toolbox k-Wave.
LIAMG develop BH TOMO, an open source borehole georadar/seismic data processing and ray-based 2D and 3D tomography software package written in MATLAB and Python.
PINGA is a research group for inverse problems in geophysics.
Seismology and Wave Physics uses state-of-the-art numerical techniques and modern high-performance computing in order to characterise 3D Earth structure and seismic sources.
Geophysics Softwares
Seismic Unix is an open source seismic utilities package which was supported by the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Currently it is supported by John Stockwell.
CREWES MATLAB Software Library (CMSL) is a large collection of geophysical codes that has grown by accretion over time with limited planning or regulation.
SeismicLab is a MATLAB seismic data processing package.
SEISCOPE OPTIMIZATION TOOLBOX is a set of FORTRAN 90 optimization routines dedicated to the resolution of unconstrained and bound constrained nonlinear minimization problems.
The Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software (SGeMS) is an open-source computer package for solving problems involving spatially related variables.
k-Wave is an open-source acoustics toolbox.
Open data
Open data lists geophysical data that is readily available for download from the internet, via mail, or through special request.
Websites
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a community-driven organization that advances Earth science by developing and disseminating software for geophysics and related fields.
