Dear Colleagues: One of the highlights of an otherwise quite somber SEG meeting earlier this month was the presentation of Honorary membership to Professor Doug Oldenburg, currently on staff at the Department of Geophysics, University of British Colombia, Vancouver Canada. Doug's citation, written by Professor Yaoguo Li of the Colorado School of Mines is attached below. My association with Doug began in 1990, when with the co-operation of a number of colleagues in other companies, we helped Doug get the JACI consortium started. In the intervening decade, I have viewed this program as one of our industries most productive mining geophysical R&D endeavors. In case there are some of you who are not familiar with Doug and his teams prolific efforts, I refer you to the UBC-GIF web site (www.eos.ubc.ca/ubcgif). Well done Doug! Best regards Ken Witherly Chair, SEG Mining & Geothermal Committee --------------------------------------- Honorary Membership for Professor Douglas W. Oldenburg by Professor Yaoguo Li, Colorado School of Mines Douglas W. Oldenburg is an outstanding scientist who has contributed tremendously to applied geophysics and an exceptionally warm and caring mentor who has nurtured many young geophysicists. His colleagues from industry and academia and his students are proud that he is receiving SEG Honorary Membership. It is my pleasure and honor to be asked to write this citation. Doug was born in Edmonton, Alberta, on 9 March 1946. He received his BSc in physics (1967) and MSc in geophysics (1969) from the University of Alberta, and his PhD in earth physics (1974) from the University of California in San Diego. After three years at the University of Alberta, Doug joined the University of British Columbia in 1977. His early research focused on magnetotelturic and seismic data. Research on seismic impedance inversion led to the creation of Inverse Theory and Application (ITA). Doug was a founder and president. He returned to full-time research and teaching at UBC in 1987 and began his ambitious program to modernize geophysical data interpretation in mineral exploration and to develop UBC into a world-class institution for solving practical geophysical problems. He has been eminently successful. In 1987, Doug started Electrical Imaging Using DC Resistivity Data, a three-year research project that produced the first rigorous inversion algorithms for multidimensional DC resistivity data. In 1990, after receiving a Science and Technology Development Grant, he established the UBC Geophysical Inversion Facility as a local center of excellence with the mandate to develop new technologies for mineral exploration. Doug successively formed three major consortia: Joint and Cooperative Inversion of Geological and Geophysical Data (1992), Inversion of DC Resistivity and Induced Polarization Data (1998), and Inversion and Modeling of Applied Geophysical Electromagnetic Data (1999). They have tackled many scientific and practical problems in mining geophysics and have developed a wealth of inversion algorithms, primarily focusing on DC resistivity, induced polarization, gravity, magnetic, and various electromagnetic data. This research has transformed geophysical data interpretation in this field from qualitative inspection of data plots into quantitative imaging of subsurface structure. Doug's consortia pooled resources from university, industry, and government to solve difficult problems of practical importance. They provided a unique forum for companies in this immensely competitive industry to discuss mutual problems, exchange insights, and thereby advance applied geophysics. Doug has expended much effort to transfer technology from academia to industry. He established the UBC-GIF Outreach Program in 1997 to disseminate inversion algorithms and educate practitioners and non-specialists on their use and benefits. He has presented many lectures and workshops on inversions and developed Web-based case histories illustrating successful applications. Because of his effort, inversion algorithms developed at UBC are routinely used by the mineral industry. They are redefining the paradigms by which companies process and interpret geophysical data, and they have led to direct discoveries of mineral deposits of great value. Doug is an outstanding educator with a unique style of lecturing and mentoring. His students can all attest that Doug imparts scientific rigor and integrity while being exceptionally warm and caring. He always sacrifices his time willingly, for students and strangers alike, to discuss their research and career directions. To many of us, he is not only a teacher and mentor whose office door is never shut, but also a close friend whose heart is always open to us. Doug and his loving wife Marion, who enjoys a great career in public health, have two children, Stephen and Tiara, now both embarking on successful careers, and a beautiful granddaughter, Hannah. Doug is an accomplished inline skater and enjoys the Canadian wilderness with passion. Condor Consulting, Inc. St. 206, 4860 Robb Street Wheat Ridge CO 80033 Tel: 303.423.8475 Fax: 303.423.9729 Cell: 303.520.5732 www.condorconsult.com <---Updated! New Case Studies www.go-l.net _______________________________________________________ List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
