Education

Diploma in Geophysics, Novosibirsk University, Russia, 1990

Ph.D., Geophysics, Stanford University, 2001

Professional History

Research Scientist, Institute of Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, 1990–1994

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2001–2002

Selected Publications

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D. A. Rosales, S. Fomel, B. L. Biondi, and P. C. Sava, 2008, Wave-equation angle-domain common-image gathers for converted waves:
Geophysics, v. 73, S17-S26. [PDF]

P. Sava and S. Fomel, 2008, High-order kernels for Riemannian wavefield extrapolation: Geophysical Prospecting, 56, 49–60. [PDF]

L. Zhang, J. W. Rector, G. M. Hoversten, and S. Fomel, 2007, Split-step complex Pade-Fourier depth migration: Geophysical Journal International, v. 171, 1308-1313. [PDF]

S. Fomel, E. Landa, and M. T. Taner, 2007, Post-stack velocity analysis by separation and imaging of seismic diffractions: Geophysics, v. 72, U89–U94. [PDF]

M.K. Cameron, S.B. Fomel, and J.A. Sethian, 2007, Seismic velocity estimation from time migration: Inverse Problems, v. 23, 1329–1369.[PDF]

S. Fomel, 2007, Velocity-independent time-domain seismic imaging using local event slopes: Geophysics, v. 72, S139-S147. [PDF]

S. Fomel, 2007, Local Seismic Attributes. Geophysics, v. 72 no. 3, A29–A33. [PDF]

S. Fomel, 2007, Shaping regularization in geophysical-estimation problems: Geophysics, v. 72, R29–R36. [PDF]

S. Fomel and A. Guitton, 2006, Regularizing seismic inverse problems by model reparameterization using plane-wave construction: Geophysics, v. 71, A43–A47. [PDF]

P. C. Sava and S. Fomel, 2006, Time-shift imaging condition in seismic migration: Geophysics, S209–S217. [PDF]

E. Landa, S. Fomel, and T.J. Moser, 2006, Path-integral seismic imaging: Geophysical Prospecting, 2006, v. 54, 491–503. [PDF]

Lomask, Jesse, Guitton, A., Fomel, S. B., Claerbout, Jon, and Valenciano, A. A., 2006, Flattening without picking: Geophysics, v. 71, no. 4, p. 13–20. [PDF]

P. Sava and S. Fomel, 2005, Riemannian wavefield extrapolation: Geophysics, v. 70, T45–T56. [PDF]

Fomel, Sergey, 2004, On anelliptic approximations for qP velocities in VTI media: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 52, p. 247–259. [PDF]

Fomel, S. B., Sava, Paul, Rickett, J., and Claerbout, J. F., 2003, The Wilson–Burg method of spectral factorization with application to helical filtering: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 51, p. 409–420. [PDF]

Fomel, S. B., 2003, Time-migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 5, p. 1662–1672. [PDF]

Fomel, S. B., 2003, Velocity continuation and the anatomy of residual prestack time migration: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 5, p. 1650–1661. [PDF]

Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S., 2003, Angle-domain common image gathers by wavefield continuation methods: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 3, p. 1065–1074. [PDF]

Fomel, Sergey, 2003, Asymptotic pseudounitary stacking operators: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 3, p. 1032–1042. [PDF]

Fomel, Sergey, 2003, Seismic reflection data interpolation with differential offset and shot continuation: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 2, p. 733–744. [PDF]

Committees

Associate Editor, Geophysics

Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Translations

SEG Online Committee, 2004-2007

Awards

Loránd Eötvös Award, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, 2007 Best Poster presented at the SEG Annual Meeting, 2006

Honorable Mention, Best Paper in Geophysics, 2003

J. Clarence Karcher Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2001

Contact

Sergey B. Fomel, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, BEG
Associate Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-475-9573

September 2006