Craig completed B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and then joined Western Geophysical 1981. He served in several capacities in the Computer Sciences, R&D and Data Processing departments including Worldwide VP of R&D and Worldwide VP of Data Processing in Western Geophysical and continued as VP, Data Processing after the formation of WesternGeco. He has received 2 Litton Technology Awards, a Performed by Schlumberger Silver Medal and the SEG Award for Best Presentation and served as the Esso Australia Distinguished Lecturer. He is an Honorary Member of the Geophysical Society of Houston and 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 served as the 2001-2002 SEG 1st Vice President and as the 2004-2005 President of the SEG. Currently, he is Vice President for WesternGeco and a Schlumberger Fellow and is serving as the Chair of the newly formed SEG Committee for Geoscientists Without Borders.

Patrick W.M. Corbett (DISC Speaker)
Patrick started in the industry in 1978 at Unocal and worked in various positions in international (United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Indonesia) exploration and development geoscience. Since coming to Heriot-Watt University in 1989, his research focus has been on the integration of geoscience and engineering through geologic analysis, petrophysical measurement, permeability anisotropy modeling, well test interpretation, dynamic upscaling, and genetic petrophysics. Corbett graduated with a degree in geology (Exeter University, 1977) followed by an MSc in micropalaeontology (University College London, 1978), a postgraduate Diploma in geological statistics (Kingston University, 1982), a PhD in petroleum engineering and a DSc in petroleum geoengineering (both from Heriot-Watt University, 1993 and 2006, respectively).

He is a member of AAPG, EAGE, SEG, Geol. Soc., IAS, PESGB, SCA, SEPM, SPE, SPWLA, a Chartered Geologist, and a Chartered Scientist. He has coauthored the books “Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists” and “Cores from the Northwest European Hydrocarbon Province.”

Corbett was an EAGE Distinguished Lecturer (Petroleum Geoengineering) in 1998 and an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (Integration of Geology and Well Testing) in 1998–99. In 2005, he was awarded the Wegener Medal by the EAGE for the integration of geoscience and geoengineering. Patrick was awarded the 2006 SPE Europe and Russia Regional Technical Award for Distinguished Contribution to Petroleum Engineering in the Area of Reservoir Description and Dynamics.

John Hughes is a consultant Geophysical Operations Adviser running his own company, John R Hughes Geophysical Pty Ltd. He graduated from UCW Aberystwyth in 1969 with a BSc (Hons) degree in geology and during his 39-year career has become a highly experienced acquisition and processing geophysicist with an excellent command of environmental issues and economic/geological objectives. This has led to him being invited to talk at numerous conferences and workshops and sit on national and international committees. Having retired from corporate life in 2007 after 20 years as Santos’ Chief Operations Geophysicist, John now specialises in providing services to operators on the more challenging aspects of seismic surveys such as operations in Central Asia, offshore environmental approvals, onshore seismic productivity improvement and near surface (statics) issues. He is a member of ASEG, SEG, EAGE and PESA.

Peter Malin is the Director of the Institute for Earth Science and Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He received the BS and MS degrees in geophysics and marine geophysics from Stanford University, and the PhD in theoretical seismology from Princeton University. His research interests include borehole seismology for earthquake and geological investigations.

Lucy MacGregor is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Offshore Hydricarbon Mapping, and has over ten years’ experience as a leading researcher in CSEMI and its application to the detection and characterization of fluids in the earth, and leads the R&D group at OHM. Lucy has extensive experience in the development and application of data processing, modelling and inversion techniques and has been responsible for survey design and data interpretation on commercial surveys in a wide variety of geological environments. Lucy has a PhD from the University of Cambridge for research in the field of CSEMI. She has worked on Marine EM methods at the Scripps Institution of Oceangraphy, and the National Oceanography Centre, UK, before co-founding OHM in June 2002.

Max Meju’s main expertise is in computational and applied electromagnetics. He joined Petronas Research in September 2008 as a Principal Researcher (EM). He was a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Leicester for 15 years and held a Readership in environmental geophysics at Lancaster University for 5.5 years where his reseach team developed novel methods of combining electromagnetic, seismic and other data in joint multi-dimensional inversion for improved characterisation of geological heterogeneity. He is the author of a popular SEG book – Geophysical Data Analysis: Understanding Inverse Problem Theory and Practice. He was awarded the 1996 William Bullerwell Prize by the United Kingdom Geophysical Assembly and the 2002 Gerald W. Hohmann Prize for excellence in applied electrical geophysics.