Ray Abma Ray Abma
is a Senior Research Geophysicist in the Upstream Technology group
in BP Americas.
He joined SEP in 1991 and received
a Ph.D. in geophysics in 1995. Previously he
received a B.S. in physics with minors in mathematics and
computer science from Iowa State University in 1974,
and an M.S. in geophysics from Stanford in 1994.
From 1974 to 1991 he worked for Western Geophysical, the last six years
in the Houston research department.
He worked for Shell Exploration and production technology from
1995 to 1997, and then moved to the ARCO Exploration Research and Technical
Services in the Seismic Acquistion and Processing group as a senior research
geophysicist until ARCO was acquired by BP.
He now works
in BP's EPT Advanced Imaging group.
His present interests involve prestack migration-velocity determination,
signal and noise attenuation, especially multiple attenuation,
and the data processing applications of
multi-dimensional prediction.
He is a member of the EAEG, SEG, GSH, and SIAM, and is presently co-chair of the GSH processing special interest group.
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