Dr. Brian Russell, vice president of Hampson-Russell software, is to be awarded SEG Honorary Membership at the SEG International Exposition and 78th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, 9–14 November 2008.
Dr. Russell is receiving the SEG’s second highest honor for his distinguished contributions to the Society and to the SEG Foundation over the last two decades. He served as SEG second Vice President in 1993, as chairman of The Leading Edge editorial board in 1995, technical co-chairman of the 1996 SEG annual meeting in Denver and as President of SEG during 1998-99. He has been on the Board of Directors of the SEG Foundation since 2003. In 1996 he and Dan Hampson were jointly awarded the SEG Enterprise Award, and in 2005 Brian received SEG Life Membership.
Dr. Russell is an internationally recognized expert in seismic inversion, amplitude variations with offset (AVO) and seismic attribute analysis. He is the author of the SEG Course Notes publication entitled: “Introduction to Seismic Inversion Techniques”. In addition, he presents advanced training courses on inversion, AVO and seismic attributes to petroleum geophysicists throughout the world. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).
