Seismic Soundoff

Geoscience needs more people who can solve problems across energy, water, climate, critical minerals, and the subsurface, yet departments are losing students, funding, and in some cases the field experiences that help...

“We always aim for 60 percent. The other 40 percent, we are ready to make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, and then move forward.” A 600-meter carbonate platform forced Dr. Ahmad Riza Ghazali and his PETRONAS team...

Julian Chenin calls IMAGE “Disneyland for geoscience,” and after walking the exhibition floor it is easy to understand what he means. But for ROGII, the real value is what happens when people stop at the booth, pull out...

Companies have spent years storing more and more data, but Amii Rozell and Hana Kabazi make an important distinction: saving the final answer is not the same as saving why you made the decision. Three years later, the...

Geoscientists Without Borders starts with a simple idea: geoscience can improve someone’s life. Jim Funk has seen what access to clean water can mean in African communities, while Craig Beasley talks about projects that...

This one is personal for me. I worked with this team for years, and after more than a decade of effort, seeing an actual printed Spanish edition of Robert Sheriff’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Geophysics sitting...

The SEG & AAPG Women’s Network brought together six leaders for a conversation on technical leadership and decision-making in complex energy environments. The panel focused on what happens as technical experts take on...

Tom Ewing and Mike Forrest join me ahead of the AAPG and SEG Honors and Awards ceremonies for a conversation that quickly becomes less about the awards and more about what kept them engaged for so many decades. Tom...

As IMAGE 2026 gets underway, we return to two conversations from last year that feel even more relevant now. Peter Duncan explains why asset turnover can create openings for smaller oil and gas companies. In today’s...

"I wish people understood that the pace of change across this region is not gradual anymore. It's moving very quickly and in many cases faster than traditional global markets expect." Conflicts and disrupted energy...

"We have to absorb and analyze more data than ever in shorter amounts of time. Spending a day thinking about these workflows can bring you insights into practical ways to integrate the model and data across...

“We’re moving from isolated geoscience disciplines to integrated subsurface solutions. You’re seeing AI becoming an enabling technology rather than the story itself.” Adam R. Goss and Bunmi Elebiju explain why IMAGE ’26...

"It helps to see the bigger picture, to get out of your own sphere of interest. So it can be a good way to see different angles of your own industry.” Applied geoscience is becoming more connected as carbon management...

“It’s hard to tell where the limit is in terms of where it can go. You have to see what is possible to want to drive this.” Andrew Geary speaks with Malc Kent about why distributed acoustic sensing is gaining momentum...

"That’s what we’re trying to achieve with this forum: bringing all the people together with different backgrounds and create this community, which I don’t think fully exists right now.” Jiajia Sun and Nadine Veillette...