Jean-Paul van Gestel highlights the latest for seismic interpretation, the special section in July's The Leading Edge. In this episode, Jean-Paul discusses the interpreter's role in the workflow, why oil is first found in the mind of the geologist, how to take full advantage of the latest technology, and the best way to communicate to the decision-makers.

In this episode, host Andrew Geary highlights Sergey Fomel's Distinguished Lecturer tour, "Automating seismic data analysis and interpretation." Sergey and Andrew dive deep into automatic picking, why humans will always be essential to data analysis and interpretation, the value of this lecture for someone not familiar with programming, and one tip to help anyone succeed as a geophysicist.

In this episode, host Andrew Geary previews Xinming Wu's upcoming Honorary Lecturer tour in South and East Asia on deep learning for seismic interpretation. Xinming and Andrew discuss how deep learning can improve training data sets, the importance of open software packages, the value of understanding seismic interpretation across the workflow, and what would happen if this topic reached its full potential.

Fritz Foss and Nathaniel Putzig discuss their January cover article in The Leading Edge - "3D imaging of Mars’ polar ice caps using orbital radar data."

Kurt Marfurt, editor of Interpretation, highlights four articles from the May 2016 issue.