Research Area: full-waveform inversion, processing of on-land seismic field data
About me: Brendan R. Smithyman received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia in 2013. He holds a BSc in geological engineering from Queen's University (graduated 2007). Brendan is currently a postdoctoral research fellow (PDF) with the Seismic Laboratory of Imaging and Modeling (SLIM) at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research interests include full-waveform inversion of exploration seismic data, with a particular focus on solving the problems that arise when advanced seismic imaging methods are applied to challenging on-land field datasets. His PhD research involved the first known application of full-waveform inversion to a surface vibroseis multichannel seismic reflection dataset, with a focus on inversion of the refracted waveforms shortly following the P-wave first arrival. New developments in 2.5D full-waveform inversion enabled the recovery (and interpretation) of detailed geophysical models for several crooked-line profiles in south-central British Columbia, Canada.
About me: Brendan R. Smithyman received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia in 2013. He holds a BSc in geological engineering from Queen's University (graduated 2007). Brendan is currently a postdoctoral research fellow (PDF) with the Seismic Laboratory of Imaging and Modeling (SLIM) at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research interests include full-waveform inversion of exploration seismic data, with a particular focus on solving the problems that arise when advanced seismic imaging methods are applied to challenging on-land field datasets. His PhD research involved the first known application of full-waveform inversion to a surface vibroseis multichannel seismic reflection dataset, with a focus on inversion of the refracted waveforms shortly following the P-wave first arrival. New developments in 2.5D full-waveform inversion enabled the recovery (and interpretation) of detailed geophysical models for several crooked-line profiles in south-central British Columbia, Canada.
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, “Projection methods and applications for seismic nonlinear inverse problems with multiple constraints”, Geophysics, vol. 84, pp. R251-R269, 2018.
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, “Regularizing waveform inversion by projections onto convex sets”, in Inaugural Full-Waveform Inversion Workshop, 2015.
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, “Constrained waveform inversion of colocated VSP and surface seismic data”, in EAGE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2015.
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, “Regularizing waveform inversion by projection onto intersections of convex sets”, UBC, TR-EOAS-2015-4, 2015.
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, “Regularizing waveform inversion by projections onto convex sets”, SINBAD Spring consortium talks. SINBAD, 2015.
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, “Regularizing waveform inversion by projections onto intersections of convex sets”, SINBAD Fall consortium talks. SINBAD, 2015.
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, “Joint full-waveform inversion of on-land surface and VSP data from the Permian Basin”, UBC, TR-EOAS-2014-4, 2014.
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, “Challenges and developments arising from 2D FWI of a land VSP dataset in the Permian Basin”, SINBAD Fall consortium talks. SINBAD, 2014.
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, “Frugal full-waveform inversion: from theory to a practical algorithm”, The Leading Edge, vol. 32, pp. 1082-1092, 2013.
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, “Lessons learned from Chevron Gulf of Mexico data set”, SINBAD Fall consortium talks. SINBAD, 2013.
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, “Phase-residual based quality-control methods and techniques for mitigating cycle skips”, SINBAD Fall consortium talks. SINBAD, 2013.
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, “Our findings on the Chevron benchmark dataset”, SINBAD Fall consortium talks. SINBAD, 2012.
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, “FWI from the West Coasts: lessons learned from "Gulf of Mexico Imaging Challenges: What Can Full Waveform Inversion Achieve?"”, in SEG Workshop on FWI; Las Vegas, 2012.