Dr. Arthur Weglein

Dr. Arthur B. Weglein

Dr. Arthur B. Weglein holds the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair in Physics at the University of Houston. He is a professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Prof. Weglein is the Director of the Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program, a research consortium supported by the major oil and service companies in the world. Dr. Arthur B. Weglein served as the SEG Distinguished Lecturer in 2003, and was awarded the SEG’s Reginald Fessenden Award in 2010. In 2008 he received the Distinguished Townsend Harris Medal from the City College of the City University of New York for his contributions to exploration seismology. In 2018, Weglein was selected as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Seismic Exploration, along with Prof. Nafi Toksoz of MIT. He is also the co-author of a two-volume graduate textbook on Fundamental Seismic Physics by Cambridge University Press. Volume one, “ Seismic Imaging and Inversion: Application of Linear Inverse Theory “, R.H. Stolt and A. B. Weglein, was published in 2012. Volume two “ Seismic Imaging and Inversion: Application of Direct Non-Linear Inverse Theory” , A.B. Weglein and R. H. Stolt, will be published in 2026. In 2016, Weglein received the Maurice Ewing Medal, the SEG’s highest honor and award.

Phone: (713) 743-3848
Email: aweglein@uh.edu

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A Selection of Recent Invited Key-Note Addresses at International Conferences and Workshops

I. Challenges & New Advances in Velocity Model Building

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Dhahran Geophysical Society (DGS) organizing an SEG/DGS workshop on “Challenges & New Advances in Velocity Model Building” for March 9-11 2021 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. workshop (the Organizers are from Petroleum Development, Oman, Shell Oil and Saudi Aramco) invitation to participate, and to present as the Closing Speaker.

Weglein Invited to be Closing Speaker at SEG-Dhahran Geophysical Society Workshop

II. Primaries and Multiples: Their Roles in Seismic Processing and Exploration

Key-note address at the SEG/KOC Workshop Dec. 3-5, 2019

III. Direct and Indirect Seismic Processing Methods: Seismic Migration and Inversion- Recent Advances and Open Issues

Ecopetrol invited key-note presentation , Bogota, Colombia, December 8, 2018

IV. On-Shore E&P Challenges : recent progress and open issues

Weglein to Present Keynote Address at 2018 SEG/KOC Workshop

V. Weglein 2018 SEG Post-Convention Workshop on “Multiples” Keynote address

Weglein to Give SEG Post-Convention Workshop Keynote

VI. Defining and Addressing Seismic Game-Changing Challenges

M-OSRP Invited Presentation at Petrobras Workshop on Game Changing Seismic Technology - Aug. 2016

VII. Seismic Amplitude Analysis for parameter estimation- a direct inversion method, the benefit and added-value

Key–note address , Abu Dhabi, March 31st , 2015 presented at the SEG FWI, Workshop Filling the gaps in Abu-Dhabi