Kurt marfurt biography

  • Marfurt is a remarkably productive geophysicist, author, and educator with a distinguished career in academia and the oil and gas industry.
  • Kurt has spent the last 24 years doing and leading research efforts in modeling, migration and signal analysis, basin analysis, seismic attribute analysis.
  • Kurt J. Marfurt joined The University of Oklahoma in 2007 where he serves as the Frank and Henrietta Schultz Professor of Geophysics within the ConocoPhillips.

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    Kurt Marfurt reflects on his career and the recent award of SEG's highest honor, the Maurice Ewing Medal. In this engaging conversation with host Andrew Geary, Kurt shares his reaction to learning about receiving the Maurice Ewing Medal. He offers his major takeaways from various career stops along his path and how his volunteer roles at the SEG advanced his career. Kurt provides wisdom on what's changed and hasn't changed in building a successful geophysical career and what he's most proud of when looking back at his accomplishments. It's a privilege to hear from geophysicists at the top of their profession, and Kurt provides actionable advice with a fun and insightful look back at his long career. Listen to the full archive at https://seg.org/podcast. RELATED LINKS * (2023), "Honors and Awards: SEG 2023 Honors and Awards Citations," The Leading Edge 42: 526–538. (https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/tle42080526.1) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Early Career Subcommittee of the SEG Resear

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    Kurt Marfurt

    Kurt Marfurt

    February 2004 | Volume 29 Issue 02 | View Issue

    Author Biography

    Kurt Marfurt, Director of the University of Houston’s Allied Geophysics Laboratories, was in Calgary recently, so Satinder Chopra and Penny Colton took advantage of the opportunity to interview him. Kurt has spent the last 24 years doing and leading research efforts in modeling, migration and signal analysis, basin analysis, seismic attribute analysis, reflection tomography, seismic inversion and multi-component data analysis. Author of several dozen articles, coeditor of two SEG published books, holder of five patents, and the current Associate Editor for ‘Geophysics’, Kurt has received both the best presentation award for work on modeling (1989) and best paper award for work on seismic coherence (1999) from SEG. Following are the excerpts from the interview.

    Here Kurt, the tape is on.

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    Dr. Kurt J. Marfurt

    Principal utredare, AASPI

    Ph.D. Applied Geophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 1978
    M.S. Applied Geophysics, Columbia University, New York, fräsch 1975
    A.B. French and Physics, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1973

    ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics
    Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy
    The University of Oklahoma

    office: sec 872
    fax: (405) 325.3140
    email: kmarfurt@ou.edu

    3D Seismic Attributes, Quantitative Interpretation, Seismic Geomorphology, and Machine Learning

    Kurt J. Marfurt joined The University of Oklahoma in 2007 where he serves as the Frank and Henrietta Schultz Professor of Geophysics within the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics. Marfurt’s primary research interest fryst vatten in the development and calibration of new seismic attributes to aid in seismic processing, seismic interpretation, and reservoir characterization. Recent work has focused on applying coherence, spectral decomposition, structure-oriented fil