Douglas W. McCowan
Research Fellow

 

 Research Interests

Seismic modeling
Synthetic seismograms
Earthquakes

 

 
Education

B.S. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964

Ph.D. Geophysics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1975

 
Professional History  

Research Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007–Present

Independent Software Consultant, 1999–2007

Chief Scientist, NuTec Services, 1996–1998

Senior Research Associate, PGS-Tensor Geophysical, Houston, Texas, 1993–1996

President, Parallel Computing Consulting, 1992–1993

Research Associate, Mobile Research and Development Corporation, Dallas Research Laboratory, 1985–1992

Research Associate, Gulf Research and Development Company, Exploration Research, Houston, Texas, 1983–1985

Retained Consultant, Gulf Research and Development Company, Center for Marine Crustal Studies, Pearl River, New York, 1982–1983

Chief Scientist, R/V Fred H. Moore, 1981–1982

Research Scientist, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979–1982

 
 
Selected Publications  
 

Myczkowski, J. D., McCowan, D. W., and Mufti, I. R., 1991, Finite-difference seismic modeling in real time, The Leading Edge, 10, p. 49–52.

McCowan, D. W., 1990, Comment on: comparison of plane-wave decomposition and slant stacking of point-source seismic data by Mithal and Vera: Geophysics, v. 55, p. 378–379.

Wang, D. Y., and McCowan, D. W., 1989, Spherical divergence correction for seismic reflection data using slant stacks: Geophysics, v. 54, p. 563–569.

McCowan, D. W., and Brysk, H., 1989, Cartesian and cylindrical slant stacks, in Stoffa, Paul, ed., Tau-p: a plane wave approach to the analysis of seismic data: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Diebold, J. B., Stoffa, P. L.,  McCowan, D. W., and the LASE Study Group, 1988, A large aperture seismic experiment in the Baltimore Canyon Trough, in Sherida, R. E., and Grow, J. S., eds., The geology of North America, v. I-2: The Atlantic Continental Margin: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.

Brysk, H., and McCowan, D. W., 1986, A slant-stack procedure for point-source data: Geophysics, v. 51, p. 1370–1386.

Brysk, H., and McCowan, D. W., 1986, Direct inversion of slant-stacked seismic data:  Part I, synthetic seismogram results: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 76, p. 815–835.

Brysk, H., and McCowan, D. W., 1986, Edge effects in cylindrical slant stacks: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 87, p. 801–813.

 

 
 
Awards  

Co-Honorable Mention of Gordon Bell Prize, 1990

Co-Recipient, Gordon Bell Prize in Parallel Computing, 1989

 
 
Contact

Douglas W. McCowan
Research Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-5739

 
Professional Summary (Word format)
November 2007