The Geophysical Society at Oklahoma State University held the 3rd annual Geophysics Tech Fest on February 19. The Tech Fest is a forum for students to foster research collaborations through interaction with colleges and peers from universities in the region.
The Tech Fest hosted students from the University of Oklahoma, University of Arkansas and Kansas State University. A total of 20 student posters were in display around the event hall in ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center. The posters covered variety of different aspects of geophysics such as algorithm development for converted wave, attribute analysis of seismic profiles, potential field studies for rift architecture, near surface seismic imaging and numerical modeling. The Geophysics Tech Fest was possible due to the generous funding from The Geophysical Society of Tulsa, The Geophysical Society of Oklahoma City, ConocoPhillips and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).
Dr. Larry Mullins, Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences, opened the event by encouraging students to think broadly in terms of future job prospects and to have a variety of skillsets to be successful. Kim Guyer from the Geophysical Society of Tulsa then took the stage and inspired the students to keep working hard through the tough times of oil and gas industry and to have a positive future outlook.
The winners of the best poster awards included: Khemraj Shukla of OSU for first place poster titled “Preserving amplitude in C-wave data using local similarity”; Luelseged Emishaw from OSU for second place poster titled “Evolution of the Broadly Rifted Zone in Southern Ethiopia through Gravitational Collapse of Dynamic Topography”; and Fangyu Li from OU for third place poster titled “Seismic Sedimentary Facies Analysis based on Variational Mode Decomposition”. Sundeep Sharma, M.Sc. student at OSU, was the honorable mention.
A short workshop followed the poster presentations, where Sharma Dronamraju of AKD professional solutions Inc. (Texas) took the stage and spoke to the participants about “Brownfields: The resources you already have!” This workshop included a fun and informative hands-on exercise that bolstered concepts pertaining to potential assessment on mature field.
The Geophysical Society student leadership includes Sundeep Sharma (President), Luelseged Emishaw (Vice President), Emmanuel Njinju (Treasurer) and Evin Fetkovich (Secretary). Dr. Priyank Jaiswal is the faculty adviser.