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Robert Stewart

Director of AGL

PhD, 1983, Geophysics, MIT
Honours B.Sc., 1978, Physics, University of Toronto
P.Geoph, 1985, Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta

Office: 312 SR1
Phone: (713) 893-1715
rrstewart@uh.edu

Awards

Industry Icons, 2010, Most influential people in the energy industry: 2010-2019: Hart’s E&P Magazine.

NASA Group Achievement Award, 2010, Robotic Recon Experiment Team: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Volunteer Award, 2008, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists.

Fellow International, 2007, The Explorers Club of New York.

Life Membership Award, 2006, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG, Tulsa) – “exceptional meritorious service to the Society.”

Experience

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, September 1, 2008 - present.
Full professor and Division Lead (geophysics), Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences; Supervisor 12 M.S. and 6 Ph.D. students
Cullen Chair in Exploration Geophysics.
Director, Allied Geophysics Laboratory (4 staff).
Technical Program Cmte., 2009 SEG Intl. Mtg., Houston; SEG Summer Workshop, 2011, Quebec City; EAGE VSP Workshop, 2011, Istanbul.
UH representative, DOSECC (Drilling, observation, and sampling of the Earth’s continental crust); Search Cmte., Dean of Natural Sci. & Math.
Geophysical transect leader: Meteor Crater, AZ; Jemez Pueblo, NM; La Marque, TX; Red Lodge, MT; Hockley Fault, TX
Adjunct Full Professor, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Calgary.

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, 1987 - 2008.
Full professor (1993-2008), Associate professor (1987-93).
Chair in Exploration Geophysics (1987-97).
Supervisor, graduated 34 M.Sc. and 8 Ph.D. students.
Director (1988-2008), The CREWES Project: an industry-university consortium with 27 corporate sponsors worldwide and 12 full-time staff (approx. $25 million over 20 years).

SONDERRA, LLC, Houston, Texas, 2011 – present
President: Geophysical consulting (VSP and multicomponent seismic exploration) and teaching.

GENNIX TECHNOLOGY CORP., Calgary, Alberta, 2001 – present.
President: Software development, numerical modeling, seismic instrumentation, seismic monitoring, and continuing education in applied geophysics. GENIX TECHNOLOGY LTD., President, 1987 - 2001.

Courses Taught

U. of Houston Graduate
Geophysical data acquisition (course creator)
Applied geophysics seminar – Allied Geophysics Lab (AGL) group
Multicomponent seismic exploration (course creator)
Borehole geophysics

U. of Houston Undergraduate
Geophysics field school (course creator)
Petroleum seismic exploration (geophysics majors)

Soc. Explor. Geophys. (Tulsa)
Exploration seismic tomography (course creator)
Vertical seismic profiling
Converted-wave seismic exploration (course creator)
Technical writing and presentation (also UofC – Cont. Ed., course creator)

Recent Societies

SPE, AAPG, Sigma Xi, SEG, AGU, CSEG, EAGE, APEGGA, ASEG, Seis. Soc. Am., The Planetary Soc., AAAS, CASI, Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol., Soc. Am. Archaeol., SPWLA, Explorers Club.

Journal Publications (peer-reviewed; H Value of 15)

  1. Roy, S. and R.R. Stewart, 2011, Near-surface seismic investigation at Meteor Crater, AZ: Submitted to J. Eng. Envir. Geophys.
  2. Haase, A. and Stewart, R.R., 2010, Near-field seismic effects in a homogeneous medium and their removal in vertical seismic profile attenuation estimates: Geophys. Prosp., 58, 1023–1032.
  3. Ursenbach, C. and Stewart, R.R., 2008, Two-term AVO inversion: equivalences and new methods: Geophysics, 73, 6, C31-C38.

Geoscience Magazine Articles (editor-reviewed)

  1. Stewart, R.R., 2011, Temperature versus political transparency: Does heat corrupt us?: CSEG Recorder, 36, 5, 20-25.
  2. Chopra, S. and R.R. Stewart, 2010, Introduction to the special issue – Multicomponent seismic: The Leading Edge, 29, 10, 1210-1211.
  3. Roy, S., R.R. Stewart, and K. Al Dulaijan, 2010, S-wave velocity and statics from ground-roll inversion: The Leading Edge, 29, 10, 1250-1257.
  4. Stewart, R.R., 2010, Multicomponent seismic exploration: A more complete conversation: World Oil, 231, 6, 61-64.
  5. Stewart, R.R., S. Khan, S. Hall, C. Liner, and J. Wong, 2010, Geophysical field education: Better learning by doing: The Leading Edge, 4, 258-262.
  6. Tan, J.F., R.R. Stewart, and J. Wong, 2010, Classification of microseismic events via principal component analysis: CSEG Recorder, 35, 1, 34-38.
  7. Stewart, R.R., 2009, The measure of full-wave motion: An overview of multicomponent seismic exploration and its value: CSEG Recorder, 34, 10, 34-38.
  8. Wong, J., Han, L., Stewart, R.R., Bentley, L.R., Bancroft, J.C., 2009, Geophysical well logs from a shallow test well and automatic determination of formation velocities from full-waveform sonic logs: CSEG Recorder, 34, 4, 20-29.
  9. Stewart, R.R., Lawton, D.C., Margrave, G.M., and Lines, L.R., 2009, Hardhats and mortarboards: The industry and university working together: CSEG Recorder, 34, 1, 40-45.
  10. Allen, M.D. and Stewart, R.R., 2008, Ground-penetrating radar tomography of a Mayan pyramid ruin: fastTIMES, Environ. Engineer. Geophys. Soc., 13, 3, 36-41.
  11. Zhang, Z. and Stewart, R.R., 2008, Petrophysical models for seismic velocity in cracked media: CSEG Recorder, 33, 10-14.
  12. Hons, M.S., Stewart, R.R., Lawton, D.C., Bertram, M.B., and Hauer, G., 2008, Field data comparisons of MEMS accelerometers and analog geophones: The Leading Edge, 27, 896-906.
  13. Stewart, R.R., 2008, Citation for SEG Life Membership Award for Dr. James E. Gaiser: The Leading Edge, 4, 548.

Book Chapters

  1. Read, R.S., Langenberg, W., Cruden, D., Field, M., Stewart, R., Bland, H., Chen, Z., Froese, C.R., Cavers, D.S., Bidwell, A.K., Murray, C., Anderson, W.S., Jones, A., Chen, J., McIntyre, D., Kenway, D., Bingham, D.K., Weir-Jones, I., Seraphim, J., Freeman, J., Spratt, D., Lamb, M., Herd, E., Martin, D., McLellan, P., and Pana, D., 2005, Frank Slide a century later: The Turtle Mountain monitoring project, In: Hungr, O., Fell, R., Couture, R. R. and Eberhardt, E.: Landslide risk management: Balkema, 713-723.

Newspaper Articles

  1. Stewart, R.R., 2007, Climate change: Fact or Fiction?: Editorial and letters, Gauntlet newspaper, 48, 6, p.21.

Creative Writing

Stewart, R.R., 2008, Somebody going somewhere: In Voices in the Wind (A collection of stories and poems from Crowsnest Pass): Crowsnest Writers, Alberta, 46.

Research Reports and Presentations

Authored/co-authored more than 280 CREWES Research Reports (1988-2010) as well as numerous other confidential industry reports. Presented over 100 papers and posters at national conferences (CSEG, CGU, CSPG, GAC/MAC, Centrum) and international meetings (SEG, ASEG, EAGE, AAPG, SOVG). Ongoing presentations to elementary schools, high schools, industry and professional groups, radio, and TV.

CD Sets – Research Reports and Software

  1. Ursenbach, C. and Stewart, R.R., Eds., 2007, CREWES Research Collection 2008, (DVD compilation): CREWES Research Consortium (SEG distributed).

DVD Set – Seismic Data

  1. Hall, K., Stewart, R.R, and Ursenbach, C., Eds., 2004, 3C-3D Seismic Data: Blackfoot   oilfield, (two DVD set): CREWES Research Consortium (SEG distributed).

Patents

  1. Pinnegar, R., McGory, R., and Stewart, R.R., 2009, Processing of seismic data using the S-transform: U.S. Patent. 7,617,053 B2.