Donald E. Wagner
Senior Research Fellow

 Research Interests

Multicomponent seismic analysis

Depth imaging

Geophysical software

3-D seismic

Don Wagner is currently plying his expertise in the Exploration Geophysics Laboratory, one of the Industrial Associate programs here at the Bureau.

 

Education

B.S. Physics, University of Tulsa

M.S. Physics, University of Missouri at Columbia

Ph.D. Geophysics, St. Louis University

 

Professional History

Researcher, Amoco/BP, 1974–2005

Researcher, Cities Service Research Center, Tulsa, 1971–1974

 

Professional Societies

Geophysical Society of HoustonHouston Geophysical Society

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

 

Selected publications

Wagner, D. E., Sen, V., Foster, P., Albertin, D., Read, R., and Burch, T., 2001, Imaging through gas seeps: 3-D pre-stack depth migration and velocity analysis, in 71st Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 961–964.

Taner, M. T., Wagner, D. E., Baysal, E., and Lu, L., 2001, A unified method for 2-D and 3-D refraction statics, 3-D seismic exploration: Society of Exploration Geopysicists, p. 481–495.

Sen, V., Wagner, D. E., Etgen, J., Rietveld, W., Fei, T., Truxillor, M., Stauber, D., Harrison, H., and Mozer, E., 2000, Velocity analysis using prestack depth migration and 3-D tomography: a case study over steeply dipping salt, in 7oth Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 717–720.

Scheuer, T. E., and Wagner, D. E., 1996, Deconvolution by autocepstral windowing, in Robinson, E. A., and Osman, O. M., eds., Deconvolution 2: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 248–255.

Peyton, S. L., Wagner, D. E., Andrews, C. H., and Crow, B. B., 1996, An example of an integrated approach to land 3-D seismic design and acquisition, in 66th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 1095–1096.

Treitel, S., Gutowski, P. R., and Wagner, D. E., 1991, Plan-wave decomposition of seismograms, in Lu, L., ed., Slant-stack processing: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 227–253.

Veezhinathan, J., Wagner, D. E., and Ehlers, J., 1991, First break picking using a neural network, in Simaa, M., ed., Expert systems in exploration: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 179–202.

Wagner, D. E., Ehlers, J. W., and Veezhinathan, J., 1990, First break picking using neural networks, in 60th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 370–373.

Scheuer, T. E., and Wagner, D. E., 1985, Deconvolution by autocepstral windowing: Geophysics, v. 50, p. 1533–1540.

Gutowski, P. R., Hron, F., and Wagner, D. E., 1984, Treitel, S.: Bulletin of the Seismology Society of America, v. 74, p. 61–78.

Wagner, D. E., 1983, Memorial: Dallas Robert Davis: The Leading Edge, v. 2, p. 56.

Treitel, S., Gutowski, P. R., and Wagner, D. E., 1982, Plane-wave decomposition of seismograms: Geophysics, v. 47, p. 1375–1401.

Treitel, S., Gutowski, P. R., Hubral, P., and Wagner, D. E., 1981, Plane wave decomposition of seismograms, in 51st Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Session S16.5.

Wagner, D. E., 1970, Nuclear yields from Rayleigh waves: Earthquake Notes, v. 41, p. 3–9–3–20.

 

Contact

Donald E. Wagner
Senior Research Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail: or
Telephone: 512-665-3144

 

Professional Summary (Word)

April 2006