Meet the leaders who are driving SEAM’s mission and ensuring our projects address challenges to the geophysical community.
SEAM was organized in 2004 following in the footsteps of successful industry co-operatives including the SEG/EAGE salt model and the private SMAART joint venture. SEG volunteer scientists designed the organizational and self-supporting SEAM business model which gained the support of the SEG leadership. SEAM was then incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation in February 2007, classified as a 501(c)(6) and solely owned by SEG. SEAM is governed by a Board of Directors with fiscal and operational accountability.
Following incorporation, 24 companies joined the first initiative (Phase I – Salt Tectonics). This project proved the value of industry cooperation in addressing very large and complicated numerical simulations of geophysics in complex geology. Later, the Phase I subsequently attracted significant additional funding from the United States government to further progress the aims of the effort. The project required significant breakthroughs in both model building and numerical simulation, advancing the state-of-the-art throughout the industry. Models and data from this project have since become the international standard by which geophysicists worldwide benchmark their capabilities of seismic structural imaging.
“SEAM is the premier collaboration platform for cost-effective, sophisticated geophysical models and simulations that drive geophysical technology advancement! Now, more than ever, is the time to participate and contribute to maximize the value of SEAM to advance geophysics for our world’s future.”
– John Eastwood, SEG Past President
Listen to SEG experts discuss the next trillion-dollar business and how a SEAM project could play an essential role in its creation.
