Peter Savage

An Interview with Peter Savage

…Oliver]: Peter, when Peter Bediz mentioned that you were a Francophone – hearing that you went to McGill, would bilingual perhaps be more accurate? I was bilingual as a child, but we moved into Montreal when I was 12. I still retain, perhaps, a 12 year-old’s vocabulary, not a heck…

Cathy Martin

An Interview with Cathy Martin

…Oliver]: Cathy, could you tell us a little bit about your background – personal and educational? [Satinder]: (laughter). That’s good – you know me too well – that’s my question! I studied math and physics at the University of Waterloo and taught high school for two years before moving west…

“Small software” to the Rescue

Steve Lynch

…Oliver Kuhn (Khun and Lynch, 2014) a few months ago. In one session, they asked me to list all of the emotions that I had. I got to about eight when they stopped me. “Wrong”, they said. “You have two. You have up and you have down and that is…

2005 Election of Officers Candidates

…Oliver Kuhn President I graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.Sc. in Geophysics in 1984, and was hired by Geo-X Systems Ltd. later that year. I have worked for Geo-X since 1984, except for a two year stint with Geco-Prakla, and am currently the General Manager for…

2004 Election of Officers Candidates

…Oliver Kuhn for Vice-President I graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.Sc. in Geophysics in 1984, and was hired by Geo-X Systems Ltd. later that year. I have worked for Geo-X since 1984, except for a two year stint with Geco-Prakla, and am currently the General Manager…

The CSEG Superfund Setting Precedent for Better Things

Nattalia Lea

…Oliver Kuhn of Geo-X Systems, John Boyd of Boyd PetroSearch and Robert Stewart from the University of Calgary: As needed, additional CSEG members have volunteered their time on the projects. Projects Completed To-Date One of the first projects funded was the purchase of books for U of C's Gallagher Library.…

Neil Rutherford

An Interview with Neil Rutherford

…Oliver]: And how did that early field work turn out? When I started there, I spent about two weeks in the office. At that time, all of the field survey notes had to be checked in the office before the seismic was sent out for processing. I spent about two…

Peter Bediz

An Interview with Peter Bediz

…Oliver]: Peter, you’ve had an extremely long and successful career; could you tell us about a highlight that really stands out for you? I am truly pleased and honoured that I had the opportunity to train a great many people in my career. Those many experiences stand out for me.…

Tom Podivinsky

An Interview with Tom Podivinsky

…Oliver]: I’d forgotten about your time in South East Asia. Was it in Indonesia you were monitoring volcanoes? No – it was in the Philippines. I was part of a local crew of volcanologists, which was mobilized to volcanoes which had increased activity. It was pretty mild volcanic activity that…

Gordon West

An Interview with Dr. Gordon West

…Oliver Kuhn also present). JL: That's exactly what happened to me when I was a young man. I was going into Civil Engineering but fell in love with geophysics as a surveyor on a Northern Saskatchewan gravity crew. I loved nature, canoeing, the outdoors, I was a Boy Scout…that's exactly…

Volunteer Spotlight

…Oliver Kuhn) have been contributing for many years and in this Volunteer Spotlight we find out a bit more about them. This month Carmen Swalwell will have written 119 Tracing the Industry columns - an amazing effort. As a regular contributor to the RECORDER since 2003, Carmen has also influenced…

Chief Editor’s Message

…Oliver Kuhn, Jean Legault Ruth Peach September Prairie Provinces – Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Draga Talinga Albert Scutt Mid-October Canadian Cordillera and the West Coast Fernando Cerda Steve Jensen December Northern Canada Albert Scutt Stephanie Ross Statistics around the RECORDER Looking at the number of online hits the CSEG RECORDER…

Tracing the Industry

…Oliver Kuhn would like to announce a job change. Starting January 6, 2014 he will take on the role of President & CEO at Quantec Geoscience Ltd. (www.quantecgeoscience.com). Oliver is sorry to leave Apoterra Seismic Processing Ltd. but does so on excellent terms, and will stay involved to ensure the…

Grapevine

…Oliver Kuhn, is pleased to announce the long awaited news that this year's event will be returning to Jasper, Alberta. The Doodlebug will be held from September 9-11th, 2004. A strong committee has been formed to plan this year's event. The 2004 Doodlebug Committee consists of: Chairman - Oliver Kuhn,…

Science Break: mRNA Vaccines and Molecular Testing

…Oliver Kuhn As we know, scientific advances usually follow a slow, laborious path, involving many incremental steps forward along with inevitable dead ends, but occasionally punctuated by glorious breakthroughs. The development of mRNA vaccines has been relatively rapid and fuelled by enormous levels of money and research effort. That has…

Chief Editor’s Report

…Oliver Kuhn, Larry Lines, Don Lawton, Marko Mah, and too many others to list here. They built this RECORDER and I am just a guardian trying to make sure we meet the needs of the readers. One of the changes will be the placing of abstracts of papers onto the…

Matteo Niccoli

An Interview with Matteo Niccoli

…Oliver Kuhn around 2009 (at the time he was at Divestco). My solution involved a combination of Otsu image segmentation and image feature measurements to separate overlapping primaries and multiples, and a modified fast marching technique (the same used for robot navigation, for example) to separate primaries and multiples that…

Presidential Column

…Oliver Kuhn the most two recent past presidents. Timeline: October 2008: Nominations open November 1, 2008: Nominations closed December 15, 2008 through January 15, 2009: Elections (online) March 2009: Elected officers take functions. The list of duties of each officer is given in the bylaws, and also outlined in an…

Doug Colvin

An Interview with Doug Colvin

…Oliver Kuhn touched upon this during his address to the Junior Geophysicists Forum in May before the Convention. He said that networking with these societies, CSEG, the CSPG, APEGGA always helps to allow you to look at how other geoscientists work in the industry, assess other corporate cultures, other companies,…

Tracing the Industry

…Oliver Kuhn as of December 31, 2013. Kelly will be officially designated as Vice President, but will share those duties with Jeff. Kelly and Jeff have had successful careers in geophysics spanning over 30 years. They are well known within the Canadian seismic processing industry and have been processing at…