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Geophysical Prospecting is published by Wiley-Blackwell and EAGE.
Geophysical Prospecting publishes the best in primary research in geoscience with a particular focus in exploration geophysics. The scope of the journal covers the potential field, electromagnetic and seismic methods applied to exploration and monitoring. The journal welcomes theoretical and numerical studies as well as case studies and review papers. Contributors are from industry and academia. The goal of the journal is to provide a valuable forum for sharing experiences and new ideas among workers in exploration geophysics.
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Editorial information top of the page
Editor-in-Chief
Tijmen Jan Moser
Deputy Editors
Maurizio Fedi
Felix Herrmann
Mohamed Luheshi
Oliver Ritter
Giuliana Rossi
Associate Editors
Mohammed N. Alfaraj – Reservoir Geophysics
Tariq Alkhalifah – Ray methods and anisotropy
Doug Angus – Carbon Storage, Geomechanics and Seismic Modeling
Philip N. Armstrong – Borehole Geophysics
Anna Avdeeva – Electromagnetic inversion and forward modelling
Milana Ayzenberg – 4D seismics, reservoir monitoring and AVO
Claudio Bagaini – Seismic Acquisition
Ahmet T. Basokur – Electrical and Electromagnetic Tomography and Optimization Methods
Angus I. Best – Rock Physics, Elastic and Electrical Reservoir Properties
Emanouil Blias – VSP, Seismic Anisotropy and Traveltime Inversion
Jean-Luc Boelle – Multicomponent Seismic Processing and Converted-wave Imaging
John Brittan – Seismic Data Processing
Xander Campman – Seismic acquisition, Interferometry and Signal Processing
Mark Chapman – Rock Physics, Anisotropy and Multicomponent Seismology
Hervé Chauris – Multi-scale seismic data and image processing
Noalwenn Dubos Sallée – Microseismicity, Fracture-induced Anisotropy and Time-lapse Reservoir Monitoring
Leo Eisner – Passive Seismic and Finite Difference Methods
Irina S. Elysseieva – Gravity Data Processing and Interpretation
Giovanni Florio – Potential Field Methods
Mark Goldman – Controlled Source Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods, Theory and Applications
Fuensanta González Montesinos – Geodesy, Gravity
Peter Hanssen – Instrumentation, Passive Exploration and Sub-basalt Imaging
Henning Hoeber – Signal Processing, 4D and AVO
Horst Holstein – Potential Fields, Mathematical and Computing Aspects
Steve A. Horne – Borehole Seismics, Inversion
Ian F. Jones – Pre-stack Depth Migration and Velocity Building
Jerry Kapoor – Seismic Depth Imaging
Gilles Lambaré – Seismic Depth Imaging, Ray-based Approaches
Nils-Alexander Müller – Multi-parameter Stacking methods and Time-processing
Tobias Müller – Rock Physics, Seismic Modelling
Roman Pasteka – Gravity Data Acquisition, Processing and Interpretation
Mark Pilkington – Potential Field Interpretation Methods
René-Edouard Plessix – Wave and Ray Theory, Optimisation
Jaume Pous – Electrical Methods
Patrick Rasolofosaon – Rock Physics, Seismic Anisotropy and Physical Modelling
Alan B. Reid – Gravity & Magnetic Fields and Radiometrics
Partha Routh – Near Surface, Geothermal
Mark S. Sams – Rock Physics and Reservoir Characterization
Denis Saussus – Geostatistical Methods and Reservoir Characterization
Colin Sayers – Unconventional and Fractured Reservoirs, Geomechanical Applications
Peter Scholtz – Seismic data processing, VSP and refraction
Juan Soldo – 4D Seismic and Reservoir Geophysics
Alexey Stovas – Anisotropy, Modelling and Seismic Time Imaging
Vladimir Tcheverda – Seismic Modelling, Inversion and VSP
Colin J. Thomson – Ray methods and seismic wave propagation
Constantinos Tsingas – Wave-based Seismic Imaging and Velocity Analysis
Dimitrios Tsoulis – Potential Field Theory
Henri-Pierre Valero – Logging and Petrophysics
Aldo Vesnaver – Reservoir Monitoring
Hongbo Zhou - Wave-based Migration, Modeling and Inversion
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Latest Issue top of the page
Volume 61 Number 2 March 2013
Special Issue: Rock Physics for Reservoir Exploration, Characterisation and Monitoring
251 | Introduction: Rock Physics for Reservoir Exploration, Characterisation and Monitoring
C.M. Sayers
254 | Laboratory seismic monitoring of supercritical CO2 flooding in sanstone cores using the Split Hopkinson Resonant Bar technique with concurrent X-ray Computed Tomography imaging
S. Nakagawa, T.J. Kneafsey, T.M. Daley, B.M. Freifeld and E.V. Rees
270 | Sensitivity of flow and elastic properties to fabric heterogeneity in carbonates
R. Sharma, M. Prasad, M. Batzle and S. Vega
287 | Computational elastic up-scaling of sandstone on the basis of X-ray micro-tomographic images
V. Shulakova, M Pervukhina, T.M. Müller, M. Lebedev, S. Mayo, S. Schmid, P. Golodoniuc, O.B. De Paula, M.B. Clennell and B. Gurevich
302 | A new Seismic Wave Attenuation Module to experimentally measure low-frequency attenuation in extensional mode
C. Madonna and N. Tisato
315 | Compressive strenght and elastic properties of a transversely isotropic calcareous mudstone
D. Miller, R. Plumb and G. Boitnott
329 | Static and dynamic behaviour of compacted sand and clay: Comparison between measurements in Triaxial and Oedometric test systems
M.H. Bhuiyan, R.M. Holt, I. Larsen and J.F. Stenebraten
341 | Specific surface area and pore-size distribution in clays and shales
U. Kuila and M. Prasad
363 | Anisotropic elastic moduli of carbonates and evaporites from the Weyburn-Midale reservoir and seal rocks
J.M. Martínez and D.R. Schmitt
380 | Rock physics modelling of 4D time-shifts and time-shift derivatives using well log data - a North Sea demonstration
P. Avseth, N. Skjei and A. Skalnes
391 | Modelling elastic anisotropy of dry rocks as a function of applied stress
M. Madadi, M. Pervukhina and B. Gurevich
404 | Applications of deterministic and stochastic rock physics modelling to anisotropic velocity model building
R. Bachrach, K. Osypov, D. Nichols, Y. Yang, Y. Liu and M. Woodward
416 |The effect of anisotropy on the Young's moduli and Poisson's ratios of shales
C.M. Sayers
427 | Seismic characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs using amplitude versus offset and azimuth analysis
M.E. Far, C.M. Sayers, L. Thomsen, D.-H. Han and J.P. Castagna
448 | Rock physics interpretation of heterogeneous and anisotropic turbidite reservoirs
P. Golikov, P. Avseth, A. Stovas and R. Bachrach
458 | Laboratory determination of the full electrical resistivity tensor of heterogeneous carbonate rocks at elevated pressures
L. North, A.I. Best, J. Sothcott and L. MacGregor
471 | Modelling electrical conductivity for earth media with macroscopic fluid-filled fractures
J.G. Berryman and G.M. Hoversten

