Meet the Technical Advisory Board
Tom
Fleure
Tom Fleure
Prior to joining GTI as VP of Geophysical Technology, Tom Fleure served as Senior Vice President of Geophysical Technology for Global Geophysical Services from its inception in 2004 until 2016 as well as serving on the company’s Board of Directors from 2004 until 2010. During his tenure he helped manage the transition from cabled recording systems to the proprietary AutoSeis nodal recording platform as well as record over 6000 square miles of high quality long offset and wide azimuth multi-client library in several unconventional resource plays in the United States. Prior to participating in the founding of Global Geophysical, Tom Fleure held various technical and managerial positions for 22 years at Western Geophysical and its successor companies including Resident Manager for Saudi Arabia, Managing Director for Nigeria, as well as Operations Manager for Western Hemisphere Marine.
With more than 33 years of experience in the seismic industry, Tom Fleure has a broad knowledge of exploration geophysics ranging from field parameter testing to signal processing. His areas of expertise and research include advanced vibroseis techniques and vibroseis sweep design as well as 3D acquisition geometry and design. He holds multiple patents in these disciplines. Mr. Fleure received a BSc Degree in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1982.
David Johnston
David H. Johnston is Managing Director of Differential Seismic, LLC, a geophysics consultancy. Dr. Johnston retired from ExxonMobil in 2017 after a 38-year career in research, exploration, and production. He was responsible for the development and commercialization of 4D seismic technology in ExxonMobil and was Geophysics Coordinator for ExxonMobil Production Company where he provided technical and business stewardship of ExxonMobil’s global production geophysics activity. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in earth sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Ph.D. in geophysics in 1978, also from MIT. Dr. Johnston has received numerous awards from the SEG and in 2013 he served as the SEG Distinguished Short Course Instructor.
David
Johnston
David
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David Monk
Dave Monk holds a PhD in Physics from Nottingham University in the UK. He is currently Director of Geophysics and a Distinguished Advisor at Apache Corporation. Having started his career on seismic crews in Nigeria he has subsequently been involved in seismic processing and acquisition in most parts of the world. Author of over 100 technical papers or articles and a number of patents, Monk has received “Best Paper” awards from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (1992 and 2005) , the Canadian SEG (2002), and was recipient of the Hagedoorn Award from the European Association of Exploration Geophysics (1994).
Dave received honorary membership of the Geophysical Society of Houston in 2008 and Life membership of the SEG in 2009. He served as President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 2012-2013.
Craig completed B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and then joined Western Geophysical 1981. He has spent his entire career in Schlumberger companies and their antecedents serving in various technical and management positions including VP for R&D and VP, Data Processing. He has received technical and honorary awards from entities such as Litton Industries, Schlumberger and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, among them the SEG Award for Best Presentation. He has twice received honorable mention for the Best Paper in Geophysics. He is an Honorary Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG) and of the Geophysical Society of Houston and is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
He has presented papers and published widely on a variety of topics ranging from prestack imaging, migration, acquisition and the connections between acquisition, processing and imaging. He pioneered Simultaneous Source technology and has recently worked in broadband seismic techniques and new methods for sparse inversion. He was the 2001-2002 SEG 1st Vice President and the 2004-2005 President of the SEG. He served as the Fall 2009 SEG Distinguished Lecturer as well as the Esso Australia Distinguished Lecturer and as 2014 EAGE Distinguished Lecturer. He was the Founding Chair of the SEG Committee for Geoscientists without Borders. He has enjoyed postings in Singapore and Rio de Janeiro and now is in Houston, recently retired as Chief Geophysicist for WesternGeco and Schlumberger Fellow (Emeritus).
In retirement, he has served as the General Chair for the 2017 SEG Annual Meeting in Houston and sits on the board of the SEG foundation and is enjoying pursing his passion for underwater photography and video. He has recently been elected President-elect for the Geophysical Society of Houston.
Dr. Craig J. Beasley
Dr. Craig J. Beasley
Richard D.
Miller
Richard D. Miller
Rick received a BA in physics from Benedictine College, an MS in physics (emphasis geophysics) from University of Kansas (KU), and a PhD in geophysics w/ honors from University of Leoben, Austria. Since 1983, he has been at the Kansas Geological Survey, a research and service division of KU, where he is senior scientist and courtesy associate professor of geology. His scientific interests focus on applying shallow-seismic methods to a wide assortment of problems from energy to engineering to the environment.
SEG has recognized Miller’s contributions with the inaugural Near Surface Harold Mooney Award (1995), Distinguished Achievement Award (2002) to Miller’s research group, Foundation Project of Merit Award (2007, 2008), USP Service Award (2012), Life Membership Award (2014), and NSTS Honorary Life Membership Award (2024). His service to SEG includes terms as past-president (2020-2021), president (2019–2020), president-elect (2018-2019), first vice president (2012–2013), second vice president (2011–2012), treasurer and chairman for the SEG Global Inc. Board of Directors (2014–2018), and representative to the SEG Council nine times since 1989. Miller served on The Leading Edge (TLE) Editorial Board (chair, 2009). In 2012, he was selected as the inaugural Global Near-Surface Honorary Lecturer for SEG.
AAPG recognized Miller’s technical contribution with 2002 Energy Minerals Division President’s Certificate for Excellence in Presentation. Contribution to ASTM earned him the 2011 Richard S. Ladd Standards Development Award. The University of Kansas has honored him with the Research Achievement Award (2008) and the Kansas Geological Survey with the Meriam Research Award (2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). EEGS recognized the work of Miller’s team advancing the science with the 2019 Institutional Contribution Award.
Miller is author of 33 TLE articles, more than 158 expanded abstracts, 123 refereed journal articles, and eight SEG book chapters. He has edited or co-edited two SEG books.
Sponsors have awarded Miller more than $37 million as PI for work on 152 research proposals. He has served as chair on 18 MS thesis committees at KU since 1995. Miller has globally delivered more than 75 invited scholarly presentations since 1990.
Publications Impact (as of 9/2024)
Web of Science: 7,087 citations, H-index = 36
Google Scholar: 20,062 citations, H-index = 61
Daniel R.H O'Connell, Ph.D.
Dan’s professional geophysical career spans 47 years (1977-present). With extensive experience and expertise in active and passive seismology. This includes extensive experience planning and executing complex active source seismic surveys and passive instrument deployments. He has spent ~20 years designing, implementing, operating, and processing data from passive seismic instrument deployments that he has used to investigate earthquake properties and Earth structure. These included 11 passive seismic studies to determine focal mechanisms and moment tensors of microseismicity. He designed and executed active-source vibroseis seismology projects with seismic node sensors for intensive investigations of Earth structure for 13 years and processing and interpretation of seismic reflection data over 32 years. Dan was the technical project lead for active seismology projects while working for WLA-Fugro, Tetra Tech, and the USGS over the period of 2011-2023 designing, acquiring, and post-processing seismic data from 35 projects that acquired 3D seismic data using seismic node sensors and one or more vibroseis active sources. Of these 35 projects nine of these projects employed more than 1000 seismic nodes and vibroseis sources.
Daniel obtained a B.S. in Geophysics from Purdue University in May 1980. In 1977, while studying at Purdue, he spent a summer on a dynamite-helicopter seismic crew acquiring seismic reflection data in the eastern Utah overthrust belt working as a driller and juggy. In 1978 he started working in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake program helping deploy temporary seismic networks and processing earthquake data to determine earthquake locations, focal mechanisms, and seismotectonic structure. During his geophysics graduate studies at the University of California Berkeley Daniel obtained an M.A. in geophysics (1982) and a Ph.D. in geophysics in 1986. In 1982 he produced a U.S. professional paper on the seismic tectonics of the New Madrid seismic zone from my analyses of data for a temporary seismic network. Daniel deployed a temporary seismic network in The Geysers geothermal field in California and used the data to do a joint P- and S-wave progressive velocity-hypocenter inversion and estimate moment tensors of microearthquakes.
As a research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University from 1986-1991 Daniel designed, deployed, and processed active and passive source seismic data from temporary seismic arrays deployed in the Transantarctic Mountains to derive the first published two dimensional images of crustal and Moho structure beneath the Transantarctic Mountains.