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“It's more than just getting data - it's about inspiring your organization to take action on it.” In this episode, host Andrew Geary talks with Adam Bucki, Co-Chair for the 4D Forum, held in Galveston, TX, in November 2024. The forum brought together geophysicists, engineers, and decision-makers to explore how 4D seismic can create value, reduce cycle times, and optimize production and injection in today's fast-moving energy landscape. Adam shares insights from keynotes, exciting tech advancements, and how the forum tackled the business and human side of getting 4D adopted across industries. KEY TAKEAWAYS > Real-world impact: Case studies from ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Chevron showcased how 4D seismic drives better decisions, from infill wells to carbon capture. > Tech meets people: New tools like FWI, fiber optics, and AI are exciting, but real change comes when people across companies are inspired to act on data. > Future-forward thinking: The forum highlighted the need for broader collaboration, especially with reservoir engineers, production teams, and management, to unlock 4D's full value. CALL TO ACTION Check out the 4D Forum abstracts on the SEG Library at https://library.seg.org/doi/book/10.1190/4D-Forum2024 to learn more about the tech, case studies, and ideas shaping the future of reservoir monitoring. If you're curious about getting involved or bringing 4D to your organization, email Debbie Mitchell directly at dmitchell@seg.org. SHARE THIS EPISODE If you found this episode helpful, please message a friend to listen. To help out, here's a possible message you could send them. This one dives into the real business case for 4D. Perfect for your next pitch to management! LINKS * Visit https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-256-creating-value-with-4d-lessons-from-a-global-forum for links to the abstracts and more information on the 4D Forum.

"The difference between an ordinary geophysicist and a great one? Knowing when noise is actually signal." Joe Dellinger discusses his new book, Forensic Data Processing. In this episode, Joe shares how his career journey – from growing up surrounded by geophysics to pioneering low-frequency seismic applications – inspired him to write this book as his legacy. Host Andrew Geary and Joe dive into why understanding seismic data at a deeper level is essential, how to spot valuable insights others miss, and why forensic data processing can be a game-changer for geophysicists and managers alike. KEY TAKEAWAYS > Look under the hood – Treat seismic data like a Michelin-star meal, not fast food. The best insights come when you pay close attention to the details. > Balance curiosity and rigor – Innovation happens when you mix wild experimentation with deep, methodical analysis. The best teams need both kinds of thinkers. > Why managers should care – Joe's book isn't just for technical readers; it also offers valuable lessons for leaders on fostering a high-performing geophysics team. CALLS TO ACTION * For the geophysicist: If you've ever wondered what hidden insights your seismic data holds, this book will show you how to find them. * For team leaders: Want to build a high-performing geophysics team? Joe's lessons on research culture are a must-read. TEXT A COLLEAGUE Joe's insights on managing geophysicists are spot on – send this to your boss so they finally get what we do! https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-251-from-noise-to-knowledge-lessons-in-geophysics-and-innovation/ GUEST BIO Joe Dellinger received a Ph.D. in 1991 from Jon Claerbout's Stanford Exploration Project. He then did a three-year post-doc at the University of Hawaii before joining Amoco in Tulsa in 1994. He moved to BP in Houston in 1999 and has worked there since. In his career, he has specialized in anisotropy, multi-component algorithms, and processing and most recently investigated the problem of how to record ultra-low frequencies that enabled algorithms like FWI to resolve complex velocity-model-building challenges in deep-water marine environments. Joe was awarded Lifetime Membership at the SEG in 2001 for his services in helping the SEG to successfully adapt to the internet age, honorary membership in 2016, and the Kauffman Award in 2021 for his efforts in developing the industry's abilities to record ultra-low frequencies. Dellinger's hobbies include attending the Houston Symphony, photographing birds, recording frog calls in the swamps around Houston, and astronomy at the George Observatory. Asteroid “78392 Dellinger” was named in his honor. LINKS * Buy the Print Book at https://seg.org/shop/product/?id=da74b583-6d91-ef11-ac21-6045bdd34421 * Listen to Joe's first interview on this topic -> https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-136-the-hidden-stories-data-tell/ * Visit https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-251-from-noise-to-knowledge-lessons-in-geophysics-and-innovation/ for the complete show notes. SHOW CREDITS Andrew Geary at TreasureMint hosted, edited, and produced this episode. The SEG podcast team comprises Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis. If you have episode ideas or feedback for the show or want to sponsor a future episode, email the show at podcast@seg.org.

"Reservoir characterization has evolved beyond oil and gas. It's now central to our clean energy future." In this episode, Andrew Geary speaks with Satinder Chopra and Heather Bedle, guest editors for December's The Leading Edge special section on reservoir characterization. They explore how this critical topic is transforming as geophysics expands its role in the global energy transition. From carbon storage to geothermal and hydrogen solutions, this episode highlights why reservoir characterization is at the heart of our clean energy future. KEY TAKEAWAYS > The Expanding Role of Reservoir Characterization: Learn how techniques traditionally used in oil and gas are now essential for carbon storage, geothermal projects, and hydrogen exploration. > Cutting-Edge Techniques in Action: Discover how advanced methods like full waveform inversion (FWI) and machine learning enhance our ability to map and monitor subsurface formations. > The Importance of Collaboration: Hear why integrating geophysics with geology, engineering, and other disciplines is crucial for solving modern subsurface challenges. NEXT STEP Explore the special section on reservoir characterization in December's The Leading Edge. Dive into the nine papers for actionable insights and real-world applications to guide your projects and decisions. https://library.seg.org/toc/leedff/43/12 TEXT A FRIEND Satinder and Heather share how AI and FWI are reshaping how we image the subsurface - inspiring information! https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-248-ai-fwi-and-the-future-of-subsurface-imaging/ GUEST BIOS Satinder Chopra is the founder and President of SamiGeo Consulting Ltd., located in Calgary. With 40 years of experience as a geophysicist, he specializes in processing, special processing, and the interactive interpretation of seismic data for reservoir characterization. His research interests focus on techniques for reservoir characterization. Dr. Heather Bedle is the Principal Investigator for Attribute-Assisted Seismic Processing and Interpretation (AASPI) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma in the School of Geosciences. Her research and teaching focus on applying and developing advanced seismic interpretation. LINKS * Visit https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-248-ai-fwi-and-the-future-of-subsurface-imaging/ for links to the articles in The Leading Edge and the full guest bios. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Technical Program Chairs Yingcai Zheng and Molly Turko invite you to submit your best work. This year, we're fostering deeper collaboration between SEG, AAPG, and SEPM. Focus on regional challenges and how integrated geoscience can unlock solutions. Submit short or expanded abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The Call for Abstracts is open and closes on 15 March at 5:00 PM CT. Don't miss this opportunity to share your research and connect with the broader geoscience community at https://www.imageevent.org/call-for-abstracts. SHOW CREDITS Andrew Geary at TreasureMint hosted, edited, and produced this episode. The SEG podcast team comprises Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis. If you have episode ideas or feedback for the show or want to sponsor a future episode, email the show at podcast@seg.org.

What happens when friendship and intimacy collide? In this episode of Gay Men Going Deeper, we're exploring the nuanced dynamics of friends with benefits (FWB) and friends with intimacy (FWI). But what happens when emotions sneak in, boundaries blur, or feelings start to change? We'll discuss: Defining FWB vs. FWI: What they mean, how they're different from dating or hookups, and what these relationships can look like. Boundaries: Essential skills like self-awareness, clear communication, and regular check-ins to keep things respectful and drama-free. The pros and cons: Why FWB might work for some and not for others, depending on emotional needs, communication skills, and personal priorities. As always, we'll be sharing our personal experiences—yes, even the times it didn't go as planned. Whether you're navigating an FWB situation or just curious about relational dynamics, this episode offers valuable insights to help you build connection structures that work for you. Today's Hosts: Michael DiIorio Matt Landsiedel Reno Johnston Support the Show - viewer and listener support helps us to continue making episodes - CONNECT WITH US - Watch podcast episodes on YouTube Join the Gay Men's Brotherhood Facebook community Get on our email list to get access to our monthly Zoom calls Follow us on Instagram | TikTok Learn more about our community at GayMenGoingDeeper.com - LEARN WITH US - Building Better Relationships online course: Learn how to nurture more meaningful and authentic connections with yourself and others. Healing Your Shame online course: Begin the journey toward greater confidence and self-worth by learning how to recognize and deal with toxic shame. Gay Men Going Deeper Coaching Collection: Lifetime access to BOTH courses + 45 coaching videos and 2 workshop series. Take the Attachment Style Quiz to determine your attachment style and get a free report.

Haven King Nobles brings us a really refreshing topic this week as we explore high agency and the importance of this particular trait when it comes to entrepreneurship and continuous innovation. We talk through Haven's experience of being a young entrepreneur, the mistakes he made in the early days of founding the Fish Welfare Initiative, and some advice on the skills to develop to really excel in entrepreneurship.Whilst this week's topic was high-agency, we of course talk to Haven about his experiencing the first organisation dedicated to working on fish, talking about some of their programmes and the challenges of working in India on this topic.ResourcesFish Welfare Initiative Website FWI Stunning projectHow to Launch a High Impact NonprofitThe FWI newsletterThe Lean Startup - Eric RiesWho Is a Good Fit for a Career in Nonprofit Entrepreneurship? Charity Entrepreneurship Blog00:00:00:00 | Intro00:05:41:13 | High agency00:09:11:20 | Charity Entrepreneurship funding00:12:49:12 | Fish Welfare Initiative00:19:01:21 | Is there issue in movement with high agency?00:25:37:17 | Cultivation of high agency00:33:59:01 | FWI and India00:39:19:23 | How to react to negative feedback00:46:12:07 | Changing the world without qualifications00:49:20:05 | Expanding to different countries00:59:29:21 | Where else would high agency be useful01:15:03:15 | Closing questionsIf you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review us - we would really appreciate it! Likewise, feel free to share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it. You can send us feedback and guest recommendations via Twitter or email us at hello@howilearnedtoloveshrimp.com. Enjoy!

"The Zohr discovery is an interesting one because all of a sudden it makes everybody sort of scratch their head and go like, 'So what have we missed elsewhere?'" Dr. Walter Rietveld discusses September's The Leading Edge, which focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean. In this episode: > Discover the challenges and opportunities in the Eastern Mediterranean's oil and gas exploration, a region attracting significant industry interest due to recent discoveries and proximity to major markets. > Explore the complexities of the Messenian interval, a geographically variable layer that creates significant hurdles for seismic imaging. > Learn how innovative technologies like multi-azimuth seismic and ocean bottom node (OBN) acquisition and advanced processing techniques like full waveform inversion (FWI) are being used to overcome these imaging challenges. > Examine the success story of the Atoll field, where OBN acquisition and advanced imaging led to significant improvements in seismic data quality, enabling better reservoir characterization and well planning. > Understand the shift in exploration focus from post-Messenian to deeper pre-Messenian plays, driven by factors like the depletion of shallower targets and the potential of deeper channel systems as reservoirs. This interview focuses on the challenges and technological advancements in Eastern Mediterranean oil and gas exploration. Walter discusses how innovations such as multi-azimuth seismic, ocean bottom node acquisition, and full waveform inversion improve subsurface imaging, particularly in geologically complex areas like the Messenian interval. He highlights the success of these technologies in the Atoll field. He suggests that similar techniques, successfully employed in other regions like the Gulf of Mexico, hold promise for maximizing the value of existing data in the Eastern Mediterranean. Walter encourages listeners to explore the special section on the Eastern Mediterranean in The Leading Edge to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions discussed. He closes the conversation, emphasizing the importance of collaboration within the industry, even among competitors, for advancing exploration efforts. THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY VIRIDIEN Viridien is an advanced technology, digital, and Earth data company that pushes the boundaries of science for a more prosperous and sustainable future. With comprehensive geoscience expertise, remarkable subsurface imaging, and a unique Earth data library, Viridien provides new insights to reduce exploration risk and optimize field development. Learn how Viridien can help you meet complex challenges in frontier basins around the world. Visit https://www.viridiengroup.com - and see things differently. LINKS * Visit https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-236-unlocking-the-eastern-mediterraneans-seismic-secrets/ for the complete show notes and the links for September's The Leading Edge. SHOW CREDITS Andrew Geary at TreasureMint hosted, edited, and produced this episode. The SEG podcast team comprises Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis. If you have episode ideas or feedback for the show or want to sponsor a future episode, email the show at podcast@seg.org.

Fresh off of an incredible Olympic experience, Carmelo Anthony shares his firsthand account of the Team USA Men's Basketball Gold Medal Game, His Perceived Beef with Bogdan Bogdanovic, Jayson Tatum's USAB dilemma, and much more! Tap in. 0:00 Introduction  10:35 Melo's Olympic Experience as FIBA Ambassador  17:00 Creating Olympic Melo  25:00 Watching Team USA Play with Kiyan Anthony  27:04 Boban Bogdanović's "Three To The Dome" Moment  31:00 Other Countries' Appreciation for Olympic Teams   35:00 D. Wade and Noah Eagle Calling NBC Basketball Games 37:40 Why Jayson Tatum Didn't Play 45:40 Advice for Team USA While Courtside 52:20 Team USA vs Serbia & France Experience  56:51 7 PM Moment: trading Gold Medals for NBA Championship 1:06:20 Narrating Nike Team USA Commercial  1:08:00 What Countries Are Getting Better? 1:13:39 2028 Olympics Team USA Starting 5 1:20:00 Women's Team USA Competition  1:27:33 FWI or FOH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keskkonnaagentuur koostab juba aastaid tuleohukaarti, kasutades selleks Nesterovi meetodit. Tulevikus hakatakse tuleohukaartide koostamisel kasutama Kanada tuleohuindeksit FWI. Mille poolest erineb Nesterovi meetod ja Kanada tuleohutuse hindamise viis? Miks peame Eestile koostama tuleohutuskaarte, kui Euroopa kosmoseorganisatsioon annab tuleohutushoiatusi, mille arvutamise aluseks on FWI? Saates on külas TÜ geoinformaatika ja kartograafia professor Tõnu Oja.

Dans cet épisode, nous allons en Martinique à la rencontre de Sarah FAYAD. Depuis plus de 10 ans, Sarah oeuvre pour une cause : l'accompagnement des entrepreneurs dans la Caraïbe, et en particulier, les femmes. D'abord au sein d'une association, puis dans le service public, c'est finalement en 2023 qu'elle fonde son propre incubateur : le COLAB FWI.Après une année d'existence, le bilan est déjà impressionnant : +38 femmes accompagnées, +1000 heures de formation proposées.Dans cet interview alliant bonne humeur et transparence, Sarah nous parle :de son parcoursdu rôle d'un incubateur comme le Colab FWIdes difficultés d'entreprendre, quand on est une femmeBonne écoute, et pensez à partager l'épisode autour de vous !

"With ​every ​new ​acquisition, ​spend ​2% ​of ​your ​budget ​to ​do ​research ​to ​understand the ​noise ​and ​signal ​drivers ​in ​your ​area. ​It ​might ​help ​any ​future ​neighboring ​acquisition, ​or ​it ​might ​just ​help ​the ​field ​in ​general, ​​which ​you ​and ​your ​career ​will ​benefit ​from." Dr. Christof Stork discusses his Distinguished Lecture, "How Does the Thin Near Surface of the Earth Produce up to 100 Times More Noise on Land Seismic Data than on Marine Data?". OVERVIEW > The significance of addressing noise in near-surface land seismic data > The interplay of theoretical and practical approaches in seismic noise reduction > The importance of coherent noise removal before statistical noise removal > The limitations and future potential of FWI in land seismic > The role of research and development in improving land seismic data quality > The impact of corporate and economic structures on seismic research investment Along with host Andrew Geary, Christof delves into the intricate world of land seismic noise. Noise is a significant challenge in land seismic data that has long been overlooked. Christof focuses on the complexities of land seismic noise and innovative methods to address it. Christof's journey into addressing land seismic noise began with his fascination for land data and its significant yet under-researched impact on seismic imaging. Despite the advancements in marine processing and pre-stack depth migration, land seismic methods have yet to see comparable progress. He emphasizes the need for more attention and funding in this area, highlighting how crucial it is for improving seismic data quality. Christof also illuminates the concept of "poor coupling," a term that describes the disconnect between surface geophones and the wave field at greater depths. He argues that understanding the physics behind poor coupling can lead to better signal extraction and improved seismic data quality. One key takeaway from Christof's discussion is the importance of combining theoretical and practical approaches to tackle land seismic noise. He explains that while traditional methods rely heavily on statistical noise removal, this is limited in effectiveness. Instead, Christof advocates for a focus on coherent noise removal, which can significantly enhance the effectiveness of statistical methods and reduce the need for excessive data collection. Christof's passion for land seismic research is evident as he calls for more investment in R&D from both the industry and academic communities. He stresses the potential benefits of dedicating a small percentage of acquisition budgets to research and creative experimentation, which could lead to significant advancements in seismic imaging. Listeners will better understand why land seismic noise remains a complex problem and the potential pathways to progress. LINKS * Visit https://seg.org/podcasts/episode-224-the-physics-behind-land-seismic-noise-christof-stork/ for the complete interview transcript and to register for the DL. GUEST BIO Christof Stork started as a theoretical academic with a PhD in geophysics from Caltech and a post-doc from Stanford 36 years ago. He performed early leading work in reflection tomography, PSDM, WEM, RTM, and FWI before they became mainstream technologies. Ten years ago, he decided to take on noisy land seismic data where more than theory is needed. Christof has been involved with four startup companies in his quest to avoid Houston and make theory commercially viable. He's now on his fifth, last, and craziest startup company, a land seismic processing company so that he can get his hands on more land data. SHOW CREDITS Andrew Geary at TreasureMint hosted, edited, and produced this episode. The SEG podcast team comprises Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis. If you have episode ideas or feedback for the show or want to sponsor a future episode, email the show at podcast@seg.org.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Fish Welfare Initiative's 2023 in Review, published by haven on February 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Note that this is a crosspost from our blog. We're posting it here because the EA community has been instrumental from the very beginning to our organization, so perhaps in some way we're hoping to make you all proud of the work that some of your own have done. As always, all questions - however candid - are welcome! Message from our Cofounders In our previous year-in-review post, we wrote about how we had made significant progress in developing our interventions, and how because of that progress we were finally beginning to see specific avenues forward to scale an intervention in India to help hundreds of millions of fishes. We are now one year later, and though it was a year of significant progress in many ways, that earlier analysis now seems premature. We began 2023 with ambitious scaling goals to add 150 farmers to our farmer program, and to help an additional 1 million fishes. Unfortunately, largely due to increasingly-apparent limitations in our interventions, we fell short of these goals. These limitations also inspired two strategic changes over the course of the year, which, while needed, created instability that at times was challenging for our team. All of these things made 2023 feel like a challenging year for our programming, and for our organization more broadly. However, with our last strategic change, and with the improved capacity that came with it, we feel much better positioned to reach our ambition of being an evidence-based, extremely impactful and cost-effective organization. 2024 is thus beginning on a note of optimism for our team, with various causes for excitement: Our revamped research department and research plans; the issues we've identified ( e.g.) and improvements we made and are making in the farmer program; and the strategic realignment of certain roles to better capitalize on our staffs' core competencies. With all of this, we believe 2023 is best characterized as a year of unintentional setup for FWI. We didn't achieve most of the outcomes we intended, but we did build a number of foundations to enable us to achieve these outcomes more rigorously and sustainably this year and beyond. We also still did reach a number of important outcomes themselves, including scaling our farmer program to over 100 farms, finishing construction on experimental ponds to be used in future research with our local university partnership, and improving the lives of an estimated 450,000 fishes. There's no doubt that 2024 will be a critical year for our organization. This is the year where we'll see if our bet on increasing rigor and resources going into R&D will pay off with more impactful and scalable interventions. Thank you, as always, for your continued interest and support. We're excited to continue to share our progress with you. Tom and Haven, FWI Cofounders Countries of Operation FWI operated primarily in two different countries in 2023: India, our primary country of implementation, about which most of this post is written. We selected India back in 2020 as our focus country, primarily because of the scale of farmed fish, the tractability we saw in our field visit of working with farmers, and our ability to hire people effectively there. China, where we conducted standard setting, field visits, and general early stage institutional awareness raising work. For more information on our current status in China, see our recent post. Key Outcomes We believe the following are the key outcomes achieved by the organization in 2023: 1 - An estimated 450,000 fishes' lives improved. Through stocking density and water quality improvements implemented by farmers in our Alliance For Responsible Aquaculture (ARA), we estimate that we improved the live...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Fish Welfare Initiative and Marginal Funding, published by haven on November 21, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is Fish Welfare Initiative's contribution to Marginal Funding Week. To note, we're posting here in our capacities as cofounders of FWI. We're planning to post a fuller update in the coming week, but wanted to make this funding-specific post for Marginal Funding Week. Here, we discuss what we'd do with marginal funds, as well as the reasons for and against a donation to FWI. What would FWI do with marginal funds? Marginal funding right now would go to filling FWI's 2024 funding gap, which is most of our ~$750,000 annual budget. Specifically, this funding would go towards the following main outcomes: Enabling several in-field studies to test welfare improvements and interventions that have the potential to be more promising than what we are currently implementing. Implementing our current program by expanding it to another 100 fish farms and helping the animals in these farms via stocking density and/or water quality improvements. Other work we believe is useful, such as policy and stakeholder work that may later enable us to more effectively scale. All of the above work will take place in India, which, primarily for its scale and tractability, we have identified as a country with particularly large potential for reducing farmed fish suffering. We will also likely conduct further work in China next year - we intend to publish our plans for there in the coming months. You can see FWI's planned 2024 OKRs for more specific information. Reasons in favor of a donation to FWI Note that this and the following section are repeated from content present on our donation page FAQ. The following are some arguments in favor of donating to FWI, roughly in descending order of our view of their significance: Reason #1: FWI's potential for impact The scope of the problem we face is huge: Billions of farmed fishes live in our countries of operation (India and China) alone, their living conditions are often very poor, and virtually nothing has been done to address these issues so far. Furthermore, the fact that we have already had promising inroads with farmers and other key stakeholders in these contexts suggests that we are able to make traction on these problems. Without any obvious limiting factors here then, we believe that, once at scale, our programming does have the potential to improve the lives of hundreds of millions, or even a billion, fishes. (Note though that our avenue to reach scale is still unclear - see reasons against below.) Reason #2: FWI's current impact We currently estimate that we've improved the lives of over 1 million fishes. This makes FWI one of the most promising avenues in the world to reduce farmed fish suffering, and likely the most promising avenue in the world to reduce the suffering of farmed Indian major carp, one of the largest and most neglected species groups of farmed fishes. Reason #3: FWI is addressing some of the animal movement's hardest questions If we are ever going to bring about a world that is truly humane, we will need to address the more neglected groups in animal farming, particularly including farmed fishes and animals farmed in informal economies. We believe that FWI's work is demonstrating some avenues of helping these groups, and will thus enable other organizations to work more effectively on them. Sustainable Shrimp Farmers of India. Reason #4: Animal movement-building in Asia Almost 90% of farmed fishes, as well as the majority of farmed terrestrial animals, are in Asia. We thus believe it is critical to launch movements in Asian countries to address the suffering facing these animals, and to expand the animal movement by bringing in new people. We are proud to have hired a local team of about 17 full-t...

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Anja Klotzsche discusses her Near-Surface Global Lecture, "Unlocking the potential of GPR for subsurface characterization by using full-waveform inversion." The heterogeneous near-surface consists of the complex interactions between rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms, which determine the availability of life-sustaining resources such as water. This environment has been increasingly exploited for human needs, such as water supply, to store our waste and food production. To assess the environmental risk associated with such exploitation and exploration, the near-surface must be investigated and characterized with high-resolution methods to enhance our understanding of hydrological and biogeochemical processes. In this conversation with host Andrew Geary, Anja describes the recent developments in FWI that have impacted how to apply GPR. She outlines a few of her favorite GPR applications, the impact of AI on GPR, and the role GPR and FWI can have in improving management decisions. Anja also shares the lightbulb moment when she realized her method was special. And why she changed her mind about hydrogeophysics and EM methods. This episode will challenge you to consider GPR in a new way and, in so doing, put FWI in a new perspective as well. Listen to the full archive at https://seg.org/podcast. RELATED LINKS * Register for Anja's lecture (21 June 2023 & 12 September 2023) - https://www.knowledgette.com/p/unlocking-the-potential-of-gpr-for-subsurface-characterization-by-using-full-waveform-inversion * Discover SEG on Demand - https://seg.org/Education/SEG-on-Demand BIOGRAPHY Since 2021, Anja Klotzsche has been a professor in hydrogeophysics at the Agrosphere Institute of the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) and the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology of the University of Colonge. Anja's research focuses on developing and applying ground penetrating radar (GPR) and full-waveform inversion for various environments. She combines theoretical method developments with applications to solve geological, hydrogeological, and biogeological problems, including flow in porous media, peatland processes, agricultural monitoring, Mars-analog soils, and more, through both borehole and surface GPR. Anja has been active within the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, serving as Publications Program Leader and Global Vice Chair of the Near Surface Technical Section, and within the American Geophysical Union, serving as the Early Career and European Representative of the Near Surface Focus Group. She has received seven awards, including the first AGU Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award 2020. Anja earned her Ph.D. in Hydrogeophysics at the RWTH Aachen in cooperation with the FZJ, her master's in applied Geophysics (joint master at TU Delft, ETH Zurich and RWTH Aachen), and her bachelor's in geophysics at the TUBA Freiberg. CREDITS Seismic Soundoff explores the depth and usefulness of geophysics for the scientific community and the public. If you want to be the first to know about the next episode, please follow or subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Two of our favorites are Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you have episode ideas, feedback for the show, or want to sponsor a future episode, find the "Contact Seismic Soundoff" box at https://seg.org/podcast. Zach Bridges created original music for this show. Andrew Geary hosted, edited, and produced this episode at TreasureMint. The SEG podcast team is Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

Öz Yilmaz returns to the podcast to highlight his award-winning article, "A reality check on full-wave inversion applied to land seismic data for near-surface modeling." In this conversation with host Andrew Geary, Öz assesses the accuracy of full-wave inversion applied to land seismic data for near-surface modeling. He elaborates on his definition of near-surface and explains why he believes full-wave inversion failed to yield an accurate near-surface model. Öz also describes how the seismic waves behave within the near-surface and what would make a good initial model for FWI. Using his insightful and informative style, Öz provides invaluable information on some of the most important topics facing geophysicists. Öz breaks down complex issues into understandable and actionable takeaways. Do not miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best geophysicists working today. Listen to the full archive at https://seg.org/podcast. RELATED LINKS * Read the Best Paper for 2022: Öz Yilmaz, Kai Gao, Milos Delic, Jianghai Xia, Lianjie Huang, Hossein Jodeiri, and Andre Pugin (2022), "A reality check on full-wave inversion applied to land seismic data for near-surface modeling," The Leading Edge 41: 40–46. (https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41010040.1) * Listen to Öz discuss his latest book, Land Seismic Case Studies for Near-Surface Modeling and Subsurface Imaging (https://seg.org/podcast/post/12564) * Explore Öz Yilmaz's books (https://seg.org/shop/products/search/Oz%20Yilmaz) BIOGRAPHY Öz Yilmaz received his B.S. in geology with a geophysics option from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1970, his M.S. in geophysics in 1972 from Stanford University, with research in rock physics and earthquake seismology, and, after five years in the industry, his Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University in 1979. Öz has worked in the seismic industry for 42 years; since 2000, he has broadened his interests in geophysics to include engineering and earthquake seismology. Yilmaz's first book, Seismic Data Processing, was published in 1987. This work was greatly expanded in a two-volume set, Seismic Data Analysis, published in 2001. In addition, Yilmaz published Engineering Seismology with Applications to Geotechnical Engineering in 2015 and Land Seismic Case Studies for Near-Surface Modeling and Subsurface Imaging in 2021. His publications, along with the numerous courses and lectures he has given worldwide (he was an SEG Distinguished Lecturer in 1996 and an SEG Distinguished Instructor in 2015), have remarkably impacted a generation of geophysicists worldwide. Through lectures, courses, presentations at professional meetings, publications, and books, Yilmaz has enormously impacted many professionals' careers by disseminating his knowledge and experience in exploration seismology and engineering seismology. Yilmaz has served SEG in numerous roles, including vice president of SEG during 1993–1994. He received the SEG Maurice Ewing Medal in 2022, the SEG Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal in 1991, and the EAGE Conrad Schlumberger Award in 1992. CREDITS Seismic Soundoff explores the depth and usefulness of geophysics for the scientific community and the public. If you want to be the first to know about the next episode, please follow or subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Two of our favorites are Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you have episode ideas, feedback for the show, or want to sponsor a future episode, find the "Contact Seismic Soundoff" box at https://seg.org/podcast. Zach Bridges created original music for this show. Andrew Geary hosted, edited, and produced this episode at TreasureMint. The SEG podcast team is Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: After launch. How are CE charities progressing?, published by Ula Zarosa on March 6, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: Charity Entrepreneurship have helped to kick-start 23 impact-focused nonprofits in four years. We believe that starting more effective charities is the most impactful thing we can do. Our charities have surpassed expectations, and in this post we provide an update on their progress and achievements to date. About CE At Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) we launch high-impact nonprofits by connecting entrepreneurs with the effective ideas, training and funding needed to launch and succeed. We provide: Seed grants (ranging from $50,000 to $200,000 per project) In-depth research reports with promising charity ideas Two months of intensive training Co-founder matching (this is particularly important) Stipends Co-working space in London Ongoing connection to the CE Community (~100 founders, funders and mentors) (Applications are now open to our 2023/2024 programs, apply by March 12, 2023).We estimate that on average: 40% of our charities reach or exceed the cost-effectiveness of the strongest charities in their fields (e.g., GiveWell/ACE recommended). 40% are in a steady state. This means they are having impact, but not at the GiveWell-recommendation level yet, or their cost-effectiveness is currently less clear-cut (all new charities start in this category for their first year). 20% have already shut down or might in the future. General update To date, our CE Seed Network has provided our charities with $1.88 million in launch grants. Based on the updates provided by our charities in Jan 2023, we estimate that: 1. They have meaningfully reached over 15 million people, and have the potential to soon reach up to 2.5 billion animals annually with their programs. For example: Suvita: Reached 600,000 families with vaccination reminders, 50,000 families reached by immunization ambassadors, and 95,000 women with pregnancy care reminders 14,000 additional children vaccinated Fish Welfare Initiative: 1.14 million fish potentially helped through welfare improvements 1.4 million shrimp potentially helped Family Empowerment Media: 15 million listeners reached in Nigeria In the period overlapping with the campaign in Kano state (5.6 million people reached) the contraceptive uptake in the region increased by 75%, which corresponds to 250,000 new contraceptive users and an estimated 200 fewer maternal deaths related to unwanted pregnancies Lead Exposure Elimination Project: Policy changes implemented in Malawi alone are expected to reach 215,000 children. LEEP has launched 9 further paint programs, which they estimate will have a similar impact on average Shrimp Welfare Project: The program with MER Seafood (now in progress) can reach up to 125 million shrimp/year. Additional collaborations could reach >2.5 billion shrimp per annum 2. They have fundraised over $22.5 million USD from grantmakers like GiveWell, Open Philanthropy, Mulago, Schmidt Futures, Animal Charity Evaluators, Grand Challenges Canada, and EA Animal Welfare Fund, amongst others. 3. If implemented at scale, they can reach impressive cost-effectiveness. For example: Family Empowerment Media: the intervention can potentially be 22x more effective than cash transfers from GiveDirectly (estimated by the team, 26x estimated by Founders Pledge) Fish Welfare Initiative: 1.3 fish or 2 shrimp potentially helped per $1 (estimated by the team, ACE assessed FWI cost-effectiveness as high to very high) Shrimp Welfare Project: approximately 625 shrimp potentially helped per $1 (estimated by the team) Suvita: when delivered at scale, effectiveness is at a similar range to GiveWell's top charities (estimated by external organizations, e.g. Founders Pledge, data on this will be available later this year) Giving G...

Dexter Van Zile is an investigative journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has researched and written extensively about Christian anti-Zionism. Since March of 2022 he has bee the managing editor of the website and online newsletter Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) established by the Middle East Forum -- https://www.meforum.org/ He also recommended https://islamism.news/ FWI educates its readers about the threat posed by Islamism (and the efforts to counter it) in Western democracies. FWI serves as a hub for counter-Islamist research and analysis and seeks to give voice to anti-Islamist Muslims.

Woah Wassam with it gang. We back with another pod for y'all. We got 1k and jay9 In the building. We started off with a real interesting question “when are we gonna say some sh*t that's gon get us cancelled?”. After that it was free game for everybody. Hopefully this gets us where we tryna go. Fwi.

Arnab Dhara discusses his paper, "Physics-guided deep autoencoder to overcome the need for a starting model in full-waveform inversion," in the June issue of The Leading Edge. In recent years, physics-driven machine learning applications have been proposed wherein physics is integrated into the data-driven model to improve the ability of the machine learning methods to generalize and potentially overcome gaps in the physical theories. Solving geophysical problems by using hybrid physics-based and data-driven solutions has the potential to address simplifications in the physical models as well as overcome shortcomings with training data sets. Ultimately, they may refine and improve our understanding of the physics underpinning data sets. In this conversation, Arnab proposes employing deep learning as a regularization in full-waveform inversion. He explains why physics-based solutions with machine learning are challenging to develop, how he made it possible to train the network without known answers, and why he tested his approach with the Marmousi and SEAM models. Arnab also shares why this research took over 20 years to build on the initial idea and how he used full-waveform inversion without a starting model. This is a cutting-edge conversation that may represent the future of FWI. RELATED LINKS * Arnab Dhara and Mrinal K. Sen, (2022), "Physics-guided deep autoencoder to overcome the need for a starting model in full-waveform inversion," The Leading Edge 41: 375–381. (https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41060375.1) * Simon Shaw, Sam Kaplan, and Chengbo Li, (2022), "Introduction to this special section: Physics-driven machine learning," The Leading Edge 41: 374–374. (https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41060374.1) * Read the June 2022 special section: Physics-driven machine learning (https://library.seg.org/toc/leedff/41/6) Subscribers can read the full articles at https://library.seg.org/, and abstracts are always free. CREDITS SEG produces Seismic Soundoff to benefit its members, the scientific community, and inform the public on the value of geophysics. Please leave a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to show your support for the show. It takes less than five seconds to leave a 5-star rating and is the number one action you can take to show your appreciation for this free resource. And follow the podcast while you are on the app to be notified when each new episode releases. Original music created by Zach Bridges. Andrew Geary hosted, edited, and produced this episode for 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing Animal Empathy Philippines, published by Ging Geronimo on January 25, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Hi, everyone! I am excited to announce the launch of Animal Empathy Philippines (AEP), a spin-off organization of Effective Altruism Philippines. We are a new organization dedicated to community building work on effective animal advocacy (EAA) in the Philippines. Grant from the EA Animal Welfare Fund As EA Philippines' incubatee, AEP is supported by a $64,000 grant from the EA Animal Welfare Fund. Last December, three of us at EA Philippines (Kate Lupango, Janaisa Baril, and I) received a 1-year, 1.53 FTE grant from them to do community building work on EAA in the Philippines. The grant is split into the following: 0.73 FTE for me 0.4 FTE for Kate Lupango 0.4 FTE for Janai Baril Shifting to An Animal Advocacy Career I (Ging Geronimo) learned about EA after joining EA Philippines' 9-week Intro to EA Discussion Group held last May to July 2020. I took the Giving What We Can Pledge and started volunteering for 5-6 hours/ week at EA Philippines in December 2020. Prior to launching AEP, I worked for five years at the National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippines' socioeconomic planning body, as a Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Associate. Since September 2021, I've been engaged as a Consultant for the World Bank's Technical Assistance project to the Department of Agriculture. Kate Lupango is one of the co-founders of EA Philippines. She's a Funding Accountant at World Vision International and taking Master's in Community Development at University of the Philippines Diliman. Kate was a former intern at Faunalytics and has over four years of experience in farmed animal advocacy. Janaisa Baril is a Communication and Events Volunteer at EA Philippines. She has helped with EA PH's Local Charity Effectiveness Research, social media content, and monthly newsletters. Janai attended our 9-week Intro to Effective Animal Advocacy Fellowship, which motivated her to take action for farmed animals. She has a degree in Development Communication from University of the Philippines Los Baños. Why work on Farm Animal Welfare in the Philippines? The Philippines ranks 10th worldwide in terms of total farm animals alive, most of which are finfish and chickens, and yet there's relatively very little work being done on farmed animal welfare. As of December 2021, there are only four organizations working on farmed animal welfare (FAW) in the Philippines. These include the Philippine Welfare Society (PAWS), Animal Kingdom Foundation (AKF), Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI), and Tambuyog Development Center.PAWS has been at the forefront of animal advocacy in the Philippines. They recently introduced a set of standards called The Better Chicken Option to educate local restaurants and consumers on better broiler chicken welfare. We've had meetings with PAWS, AKF, and FWI and we learned that the lack of high-quality candidates for jobs was the biggest bottleneck for establishing new programs or scale-up of those existing ones. Thus, it was clear to us that doing community building work on EAA is how we can make the greatest positive impact on farmed animals. Focusing on community building will enable us to multiply our impact by increasing the number of Filipinos who will take action for farmed animals. Why we launched and what our goals are Animal Empathy Philippines was conceived after EA Philippines conducted its first EAA fellowship last year. We thought that building a community of effective animal advocates would spark Filipinos' interest in farmed animal advocacy. Through AEP, we aim to: Build, grow, and sustain a community of effective animal advocates; Expand talent pool in EA-aligned animal welfare organizations; and Kick-start a coalition of local farm...

Joe Dellinger discusses his 2022 Distinguished Instructor Short Course, "Forensic data processing." Are you a geophysicist that processes seismic data, or someone who uses the processed results of that data? If so, you probably think of seismic data as something that arrives on a tape or "from the cloud." However, your data also has other, hidden stories to tell - stories that likely were shredded and lost when you chopped the data into traces and fed it into your algorithms for processing. We typically call anything our algorithms are not designed to deal with "noise." Can we make use of such "noise," or at least better understand it? If we understood it, could we do something useful with it (or at least have a better idea of how to suppress it)? The goal of Joe's course - and this conversation - is to get you thinking more critically about your data. How was it recorded? What is in it? What happened to it on the way from the field to numbers in a file? Joe brings his experience, expertise, wisdom, and humor to this essential conversation on data that will be valuable for every geophysicist. Start the new year with the fresh insights presented in this episode. RELATED LINKS * Learn more about Joe's DISC (https://seg.org/Education/Courses/DISC/2022-DISC-joe-dellinger) * Watch the 2016 DISC: Forensic data processing - Revealing your data's hidden stories (https://seg.org/Education/Lectures/Distinguished-Lectures/2016-DL-Dellinger/Recording) * Discover SEG on Demand (https://seg.org/Education/SEG-on-Demand) BIOGRAPHY Joe Dellinger received a Ph.D. in 1991 from Jon Claerbout's Stanford Exploration Project. He then did a three-year post-doc at the University of Hawaii before joining Amoco in Tulsa in 1994. He moved to BP in Houston in 1999 and has worked there since. In his career, he has specialized in anisotropy, multi-component algorithms and processing, and most recently investigated the problem of how to record ultra-low frequencies with the goal of enabling inversion algorithms like FWI to resolve complex velocity-model-building challenges in deep-water marine environments. This last challenge required Dellinger to look closely at “useful information in our seismic data that is normally ignored,” i.e., “forensic data processing.” This has included studying the 2006 “Green Canyon” earthquake, investigating how the Valhall Ocean-bottom-cable array might be used between seismic surveys, and characterizing seismic sources and noise in deep-water ocean-bottom Gulf of Mexico data. In the course of that project, BP created a new vibratory low-frequency marine source, Wolfspar®, which proved to be particularly amenable for these studies because it has a precisely known source signature. These learnings became the basis for his Spring 2016 Distinguished Lecture and will be the core of the follow-up 2022 short course. SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by CGG. For over 90 years, CGG's positive outlook for the future has driven us to constantly push the boundaries of what's possible. This optimism, combined with new thinking and advanced technologies, helps us solve today's most complex natural resource, environmental and infrastructure challenges. As this year draws to a close, we'd like to wish SEG and its members every success in 2022. As always, CGG will be there to help you see things differently. Visit https://www.cgg.com/ to learn more. CREDITS Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Ted Bakamjian, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis. You can follow the podcast to hear the latest episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.

welcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio. This is: Hiring Process and Takeaways from Fish Welfare Initiative , published by haven on the effective altruism forum. Who should read this: This post will likely only be useful to those employers who will be directly involved in a hiring process, although the Recommendations for Applicants section should be useful for most job applicants. Job applicants may also find it interesting to learn about the employer side of the process. We (the co-founders of Fish Welfare Initiative) recently completed our hiring process for our first new full-time employees: a Research Analyst and an Animal Welfare Specialist (more on that distinction later). As neither of us had previous hiring experience, we set out to build a process based on the best available evidence on how to hire effectively, objectively, and kindly. The following is what we found and learned. We hope that this process and the linked templates will be useful to your organization and will save you some of the large time investment required to create a new process. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to comment below or contact us. Big Takeaways Probably the best hiring advice we received came from the CEO of a GiveWell-recommended charity. He looks for candidates who are “smart, nice, and really want the job.” Your hiring process is a reflection of your organization. To reflect FWI, we aimed to make our hiring process evidence-based, compassionate, unconventional/innovative, and requiring some dedication. If you're not already, you should use Calendly or another scheduling software to schedule all interviews. We found EA Facebook pages, our website, and personal recommendations to be the best places to find talented applicants. Score everything with a template, where applicant materials and questions are all scored quantitatively. This will help you increase objectivity. You should input these scores for each round into one master spreadsheet. With interviews, we updated away from asking the same somewhat shallow questions. Rather, asking fewer and more probing semi-structured questions provided more valuable information. Don't be afraid to gather more information about a candidate: additional calls, emails, and interviews can all be helpful. Don't be a jerk to your applicants. Too many employers are. Your applicants will appreciate you for how you treat them and leave with a good impression of your organization. Resources We Used We relied heavily on the following resources and highly recommend looking them over. We agree with most of the recommendations they make, and have tried to restrict this post to primarily our own original takeaways so as not to duplicate work. Charity Entrepreneurship's Application Process Takeaways from EAF's Hiring Round (which heavily inspired the creation and structure of this post) Hiring Ethically & Rationally - Aaron Hamlin Hire with Your Head Effective Strategies for Equity and Inclusion - Sentience Institute Additionally, although it was published towards the end of our hiring process, Notes on hiring a copyeditor for CEA is also a good resource. We are very grateful to the organizations and individuals who created these resources. The Role We Hired For We were originally looking for a researcher who had prior knowledge and (ideally) credentials with fish and animal welfare. As this was the first hire FWI was going to make, we also wanted someone who would be able to take a leadership role in shaping the organization. We ended up advertising for two separate roles: a Research Analyst and an Animal Welfare Specialist. Advertising for Two Separate Jobs Initially, we were unsure whether we wanted someone who was an early-career generalist (flexible and value-aligned), or someone who was later-career and had more domain knowledge and credentials (although possibly less flexibil...

Miguel Bosch discusses his Honorary Lecture, "The new paradigms in seismic inversion." Miguel explains how elastic Full Waveform Inversion and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach improve seismic inversion, discusses if data analysis and machine learning are essential to practice inversion, and highlights new tools that will improve the accuracy of inversion. This conversation provides great value and insight into the essential work of inversion. RELATED LINKS * Watch Miguel's course: The New Paradigms in Seismic Inversion (https://www.knowledgette.com/p/the-new-paradigms-in-seismic-inversion) * Discover SEG on Demand (https://seg.org/Education/SEG-on-Demand) * The SEG podcast archive (https://seg.org/podcast) BIOGRAPHY Miguel Bosch's expertise is in the field of geophysical inversion with a focus on advanced seismic inversion methods and data integration in complex reservoir models. He has worked on inference problems at different earth scales. In the topic of oil and gas reservoir description, he develops services and technology for the upstream oil and gas industry. Miguel has supervised a large number of projects on seismic inversion, reservoir characterization, and integration, and developed advanced technology and software for these fields. His recent research involves focused Full Waveform Inversion and quantitative Knowledge Networks for data integration. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, working with Albert Tarantola, and was a full professor and Head of the Applied Physics Department at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He is an active member of the SEG, AGU, EAGE, IAMG, AAPG, GSH and serves as associate editor in the area of reservoir geophysics for the journal GEOPHYSICS. He is presently the founder and CEO of Info Geosciences Technology and Services. SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by CGG. When you need accurate estimates of reservoir properties, it all comes down to the details. For more than 90 years, CGG has led the industry in advanced subsurface imaging, providing the best possible input for reservoir characterization. Our proprietary time-lag FWI technology provides detailed and robust velocity models and remarkable FWI imaging results in even the most complex geological settings. Better images, better knowledge, better outcomes: upgrade your reservoir imaging and see things differently with CGG. Visit https://www.cgg.com/ to learn more. CREDITS Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Ted Bakamjian, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis. You can follow the podcast to hear the latest episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify

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Today we talk about a variety of things another one of them wing it pawds.. But It was fun. We talk about Mark Zuck's new META and the metaverse, we talk about the braves s=winning the whatchamacallit, we talk about a brave father who took maters into his own hands concerning his daughter, we talk about JayZ getting inducted into the Rock and roll Hall Of Fame and much much more! HOPE YOU ENJOY!SUBSCRIBE!BLOOMERPOD.COMSHOUTOUT TO OUR NEW SPONSORS: https://thespiritualstoners.com/USE PROMO CODE "SPIRITUALBLOOMERS" For 10 percent off at checkout!Be sure to also check out Typical Div's locally roasted coffee! Use Promo code "BLOOMER" for 10 percent off at checkout!https://www.typicaldiv.com/OR You Can Go straight to the source if you're in Atlanta and visit Div where he can make you a fresh cup at Cafe Fwi!Located at24 John Portman BLVD NW, Atlanta, Ga 30303"The Best Things in Life are FWI"

Denes Vigh discusses the current developments and future growth areas for full-waveform inversion. In this informative conversation, Denes shares why it's necessary for full-waveform inversion (FWI) to utilize the full acquired wavefield, how ocean-bottom node surveys have impacted FWI, the next frontier for FWI, and his favorite feature of utilizing FWI in his work. Denes Vigh is the manager of the Full-Waveform Inversion Center of Excellence at Schlumberger. Check out the May 2021 The Leading Edge to learn more about seismic imaging below complex overburdens. Visit https://seg.org/podcast for the complete show notes. SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by TGS. TGS offers a wide range of energy data and insights to meet the industry where it’s at and where it’s headed. TGS provides scientific data and intelligence to companies active in the energy sector. In addition to a global, extensive and diverse energy data library, TGS offers specialized services such as advanced processing and analytics alongside cloud-based data applications and solutions. Visit https://www.tgs.com to learn more. CREDITS Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Ted Bakamjian, Dylan Fehrle, Ally McGinnis, and Mick Swiney.

Andy Mahon, from Dublin, is a farm manager on the Bromborough Estate Farm in North Bedfordshire, which is roughly halfway between London and Birmingham and firmly in the heart of arable country and he joins Michael Hennessy on this week's Tillage Edge podcast. Andy has worked hard on the costs of production on the farm and is the only full time employee managing close to 750 hectares of land. Andy has full-time help for about 8 months of the year and also some help with seasonal labour at drilling and harvest. The long term farm rainfall for the farm is around 550mm per year (Carlow is 850mm per year) and the average yields (dry) on the farm are as follows; winter wheat 9.5t/ha, spring wheat 6.5t/ha, spring beans 4-4.5 t/ha. In the past 8 years the Bromborough Estate transitioned from plough based establishment system to min-till, then to strip till and are now full converted to a zero or no-till establishment system. The switch has helped enormously in labour efficiency, however Andy said it has taken a huge amount of effort and learning to get to what he regards as a sustainable system now. The integration of cover crops, spring cropping and improved control of grass weeds have been a particular focus of the transition. And don't forget to join us for Day 2 of the virtual 2021 National Conference on Feb 17th. Register in advance at: https://www.teagasc.ie/tillagemonth/ For more episodes and information from the Tillage Edge podcast go to: https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/crops/the-tillage-edge-podcast/ Image credit: FWI.co.uk

Dr. Adriana Citlali Ramírez highlights her SEG Honorary Lecture Europe 2021 talk, "Seismic technology in northern European waters and the prevalence of multiples." In this compelling conversation, Adriana showcases the value of exploring and developing mature oil and gas fields, the value of moving first on new technology, and offers great advice to succeed in the industry. This episode will convince you to sign up for her free lecture! Visit https://seg.org/podcast for the complete show notes and links for Adriana's free lecture. BIOGRAPHY Adriana Citlali Ramírez is a Mexican citizen who has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Houston’s Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program. During her graduate studies, Adriana did internships with Shell, Statoil (now Equinor), ConocoPhillips, and BP. After graduation, she worked in R&D at WesternGeco in the United States, and later at PGS in the UK. In 2012, Adriana joined Equinor’s Research and Technology Exploration unit in Norway, where she led the R&D work related to broadband technology. She later moved to Geophysical Operations and focused on survey design and new technological developments. During her last years at Equinor, she worked as a geophysics specialist in the Chief Geophysicist’s Team in Exploration. In August 2019, Adriana joined TGS in the position of Chief Geophysicist. She has an advisory role for the discipline of geophysics where she focuses on strategy, business, and technology with emphasis on Europe and Russia. Adriana has authored four patents and more than 50 technical publications. She is a member of the EAGE Research Committee, SEG Research Committee, SEG Women’s Network Committee, and Founding Chair of the SEG Europe Regional Advisory Committee. From May 2018 to December 2019, she served on the Board of Directors of SEAM (SEG Advanced Modeling Corporation), where she is now the vice-chair of the Board and chair-elect for 2021. In early 2020, she was awarded the first-ever Monterrey Institute of Technology (Tecnológico de Monterrey) EXATEC Career Award and was chosen as the SEG Honorary Lecturer for Europe in 2021. SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by CGG. Instead of seeing multiples in the North Sea as the enemy, why not put them to work? CGG uses multiples to build better velocity models and images that give unique clarity for near-field exploration and development. With its TopSeis data in the Barents Sea, plus new OBN and duel-azimuth data sets featuring time-lag FWI, CGG provides unmatched insight into North European waters. Contact CGG at https://www.cgg.com/ today to learn how to see things differently during North Sea exploration. CREDITS Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Ted Bakamjian, Jennifer Crockett, Ally McGinnis, and Mick Swiney.

The episode where we sing...and talk murder! It’s another musical episode to round out our true crime stories, and we all even stay in America this time. Lindsey goes first with an unsolved mystery in Washington DC, Robert Wone. Go on a deep dive on Reddit for this case, guys. Next up is Boydston...with another unsolved case! We hear the tragic story of Kenneka Jenkins in Chicago. Finally Sarah finishes us off with some closure, just in case you hate unsolveds as much as the Sarahs do! She brings us the story of Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper, whose horrific murders inspired a Halloween classic film. Also, we’d all make horrible robbers, FWI. Celebrate the spooky season with some murder! www.thetipsyghost.com Find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok @thetipsyghost and at Patreon.com/thetipsyghost Email us your stories at thetipsyghost@gmail.com Show your support when you subscribe, leave a great review & give us a 5 star rating—it really helps!

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED - DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Four Winds Interactive is one of the largest and most well-known pure play digital signage companies in the industry. But the Denver-based company went a little quiet about 18 months ago, when a venture capital company based in Austin, Texas took on a majority stake. That perceived quiet spell changed recently when word circulated that Four Winds had itself completed an acquisition - a UK company focused on workplace communications and operations. News of that deal presented a good reason to get back together on a podcast with David Levin, who started the company and has long been its CEO. We chatted about several things, including where the company is at, how fully half of its business is now with screens that are employee-facing, and why he and his clients call the work visual communications. We also get into how the company is weathering the pandemic, with maybe 15% of staff going into the company's two Denver offices, while the rest work from home. Levin goes in, by the way. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT So David, good to catch up. It's been a long time since we've seen each other.  David Levin: Thanks, Dave. It's been way too long.  It's been my impression and you can correct me, that about a year and a half ago, you weren't acquired, but you got a major investment from a private equity firm. And, since then, you’ve been kind of quiet. I don't see Four Winds Interactive around as much as I used to, but tell me I'm wrong and that you guys are noisy as hell and I'm just missing it. David Levin: We might've been quiet, from a press standpoint, but we've been very busy. We did do a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners about 18 months ago. And we've been hard at work. I think when we talked maybe three years ago, we were at the early part of our FWI Cloud Initiative, that we are now into end to end on cloud and have had, I don't know how many releases, but a lot. We're extraordinarily proud of where that's turned out and with Vista, we've made a lot of changes operationally that are great. We've changed a lot of things in our go-to-market operation. And, building the foundation for the company for the next phase.  Now, what drove those changes? Was it because the PE guys or VC guys said you need to make these changes or the cash infusion and support enabled you to make changes that you already had in the works or wanted to do? David Levin: So one of the things we liked about Vista and the reason we partnered with them is that they invest exclusively in software companies and they are known for studying best practices and figuring out what works best. And that's an evolving process because, as companies try new things that go back into the best practice creation, companies evolve together, but you get the benefit of being able to be a member company of 60 plus software companies and figure out what works best. And for the 14 years prior to that, we had essentially figured everything out on our own. And, I was excited to have those resources available to us.  So, long story short, we jumped full-on and implemented a lot of the best practices. What does it mean culturally? As you said, you had 14 years of, pretty much bootstrapping with some angel level private investors, building the company up to where it was at, to then go to having majority owners outside of the company. And now, you're still in charge, but you have masters. David Levin: Yeah, well, it doesn't feel like that. You know, they are a majority owner, but we still retained a significant stake and we have a meaningful ownership piece in this business. I started and have been the CEO since the start, it will always feel like our organization, regardless of the equity structure and they're very collaborative. So it has felt like a partnership.  Yeah. One of the things when the announcement happened that you guys had done this deal, I looked at the company and I looked at the portfolio of companies that Vista already had under its wings and thought, this is interesting. There's a whole bunch of companies in there who I could see doing integrations with and getting you into lines of business or opening doors that would be very hard to otherwise open it. Has that played out or was I just imagining things?  David Levin: The investment thesis wasn't about integration with other portfolio companies. We are what's considered a platform investment for them, which is, they're picking leaders in software industries to go win a category. And the platform investment is the first company investment in a space. And then, in almost all of their investments, there add on acquisitions to that platform company to help when the market broadens the offering to customers, and the Spark Space acquisition was our first acquisition. That's part of that. So no, it was a platform investment versus something related to integration with the portfolio.  But when you have kind of sister companies, so to speak, who are doing work, let's say, in the restaurant or hospitality industry, and they have a platform that does whatever it does, it struck me as so many technologies are starting to blend and blur together that there were complimentary technology opportunities here that you could add capabilities to another platform and vice versa and enable integrations.  David Levin: It's super helpful from an integration standpoint. So where customers want to, in a simple case, pull data from a US system and that system is part of the Vista portfolio, then it's obviously easy to make a call and get the product teams working together, but that wasn't core to the investment strategy. That's just a helpful benefit.  Right, and what has it meant for the company in terms of how you operate? You said you made a lot of structural changes and things like that. How has that played out? David Levin: Yeah, so we've changed our sales territories. We have increased investments, and in marketing, I think, we had launched just prior to the investment, but we've made a significant investment in our customer success organization and our support for customers overall and their renewals and their growth and countless others, but those are the first ones that come to mind.  One thing that always struck me about Four Winds was that you had a lot of people and you opened a hell of a lot of new accounts, very strong in terms of email marketing and customer acquisition. But then, what comes with opening a lot of accounts is you've got to manage all of those people, and manage all of those accounts, and very small accounts can be needier than whale accounts. Has that changed or have you streamlined and focused more on corporate and enterprise?  David Levin: Yeah, enterprise across multiple use cases, but definitely enterprise, after adding to the software platform for 14 years and having the luxury of being able to work on some of the more advanced use cases out there, the product was positioned for enterprise and as a larger organization, you need big customers generally to keep growing. So yeah, that's where we're focused.  So if you have a small account, let's say a, a tribal casino in Missouri that needs 10 screens, would you push them off to a reseller or would you say it's not really what we do anymore?  David Levin: So, the interesting thing in the casino market is that even smaller casinos are great digital signage customers because they've got far more than 10 screens. We do have some phenomenal partners, ConnectedSign is one of those and we'll work with partners to make sure that they're taken care of. The most important thing is that they're on our platform. so generally, yes.  Historically you've put a lot of emphasis on vertical markets, and from my perspective at least, you’ve been very smart in terms of not putting all of your eggs in the generalized “trade show” basket, by going to vertical market-specific trade shows that nobody else, who you would consider a competitor was at, like Airport trade shows and Hotel trade shows, and the Hospital trade shows, and so on.  Have you thinned out the number of verticals that you're after? Cause it seemed to me, when I was looking last week on your website, it seemed to be about corporate and guest experience. David Levin: We've definitely put more focus there, with an overriding theme of enterprise visual communications. Some of our larger customers are retailers and have customer-facing applications. probably go to market perspective, yes, with the caveat that if you've got a lot of screens, you need enterprise-grade visual communication software, where you've got more advanced use cases, we target those. You said visual communication software. Is digital signage, the term you even use with your customers, are they asking for digital signage or are they asking for visual communications or something else?  David Levin: They ask for both. I think cust customers that have been working with us for a long time,tend to use visual communications. And I think the industry is still digital signage and both are great.  Don't really care, just by, please! (Laughter)  David Levin: Yeah.  I'm curious about workplace and enterprise-level workplace, and what's now happening and what's going to happen longed term with, big damn offices that maybe won't be as big as they used to, or at least not as heavily populated as they used to. Is that for some of your clients, as well as yourself to rethink and pivot around the new way that workplaces are gonna operate? David Levin: Yeah. I think all organizations are going through this question of “what does life looked like post-COVID in the workplace?” It has fundamentally changed and customers are at different levels of bringing people back to work. And, technology is a key part of enabling that and I think there's just this fundamental shift where most organizations have proven you can be very effective at home, so then what's the role of the office? And how many people are coming into the office on any given day, what's a safe number of people to come into the office while we're still in COVID and then how do you use technology to manage that?  Does it matter to the typical client whether there are 500 people in the office now, or trimmed down to 200 because you still have 200 people who you need to communicate with? David Levin: Yeah, I think it makes a difference because you've got to communicate, across multiple platforms. So first of all, in workplaces, generally breaking down into three categories, employee communications, which we talk about a lot in the industry, digital workplace, which tends to be more meeting or a management desk management, visitor management, interactive directories, wayfinding, emergency messaging, and then, performance-related, you know KPI boards, manufacturing floors, call centers, Salesforce, etc.  So in the employee communications realm, you've gotta be multichannel. So for people that aren't in the office, obviously digital signs are very important, but if you're at home, you've got to get communication with people on their personal device. So we've got viewer channels that enable people to do that and other tools to make sure that the communication objectives are met.  So the viewer channels are effectively desktop screensaver kinds of things, and alerts that'll pop on a screen? David Levin: Yeah, digital signage content that you can view on your personal device primarily using the browser.  Now, how do you get workers to use that? Because I'm thinking if I worked at a company, and maybe I'm just a cranky old guy, but I don't think I would want that if I could avoid it. I don't know that I would use it if there was a way not to use it.  David Levin: It's funny. A lot of us, when we were working at home, had digital signs running in the background, but you don't have to have a dedicated device for that. So for example, if you've got your laptop connected to multiple screens, then you can take one screen and make that your sign, or resize a window in the corner. And it's a way to get content throughout the day. And some of our customers who are using the product for sales KPIs, they're used to looking at those boards when they're on the office floor. You know, you want to be able to see how you're performing throughout the day, meet with your peers, and you're just running it in a different format.  One of the things I've talked a lot about is the whole idea of KPIs on manufacturing floors and elsewhere. And I've wondered how many end-user companies are actually using it yet, and while I've seen no end of chatter about workplace comms and showing KPIs for showing Salesforce, opportunity pipeline, reports, and everything on a screen. They make sense in a white-collar environment, but are you seeing many companies adopting KPI dashboards for production blue-collar areas? David Levin: We are at the evolution of visual management as part of lean manufacturing and the more screens people end up getting in a venue, then this question of “okay, how do you control the devices and Is there a better way to present the information?” The number of screens that are out there in manufacturing floors on rolling carts may be running an app, a dashboard that wasn't designed to be a digital sign, it's intended for desktop use, but you're running it on a public screen, and you're trying to view it from a long way away. that still exists quite a bit out there.  So as customers evolve their needs, they find themselves looking for digital signage or edge of visual communications products and have really good visual applications and good device management and everything else that comes along with the solution. So tell me about the Smart Space acquisition. Was that an acquisition led by Four Winds or by Vista and it's a paper announcement that this was an acquisition by Four Winds? Or is you guys?  David Levin: No, it was led by Four Winds, but it's a close partnership. We work with the Vista team on the business. So when we started 18 months ago, we mapped out the market, you know, things like where are our largest segments, where the biggest population of our customer base, what are our natural product extensions, where can we bring the most value back to customers and, what does the universe look like? And that helped create our Corp Dev strategy. And with Smart Space, we were talking to them for a while and I really wanted our first acquisition to be able to bring something more back to our base. Now our base really breaks down pretty evenly between 50% of our customers are using the product for customer-facing applications, and 50% of our customers are using the product for internal and employee communication You know, it's hard to do one acquisition to cover everybody from the start, so we're looking across the board. You know, workplace is important to us, and then in the workplace, again, those three kinds of segments between employee comms, performance management, and digital workplace. And then in the digital workplace, If you find yourself with a meeting room signage product, which we have, and customers have been adopting, you're really quickly into meeting room management and desk management. And if you're in meeting room management and desk management, then you really need analysts about the usage of those spaces, you need sensory integration, you need a mobile app for the employee experience, and so that’s why we just felt like it was a good product extension to buy.  So it was one of those cases of, “Our customers looking for this, we know that we're going to have it. We can either build it or the faster track is to buy it and get a pretty significant number of customers with it?” David Levin: Yeah, exactly. And you know, if you're involved in real estate or digital workplace for a large enterprise, then usually you're involved with both digital signage and desk and reading room management. So it's a great fit.  And with the Smart Space deal, will they be rebranded as Four Winds or will it continue to be its own entity?  David Levin: So Smart Space is becoming part of Four Winds. We're still figuring out the naming of the product. We really like what they've done with the product, but right now, Smart Space is an FWI company and will become part of our overall platform.  You had European people before, EMEA people before, but this gives you an office, right? David Levin: It gives us an office and 40 great people, most of who are based in the UK and a really nice center for our operation in Europe.  Does it play out the way I've heard from other companies in terms of you start with very simple applications with a corporate enterprise, like a meeting room sign and it just cascades out from there because if they're happy that the client asks for more capability, directories analytics, KPI dashboards, and so on? David Levin: For sure. In general, the more applications a customer can run on a single platform, the better. And that's where a lot of our growth has come from over the years, as a customer will start in an area that is the most important need at that particular time and then they'll expand and expansion is pretty easy because it's an endpoint on the platform and it's an application that's built on the platform and content that gets managed by the platform and feeds that application, so it's pretty easy to expand and we love the fact that there's so much you can do on the product. We’d love all these different use cases to get rolled out. And even at a workplace customer, it's interesting, even in a workplace customer, there are these different parts of a workplace which ends up being customers facing, like your lobby experience, your executive briefing centers, your trade show. So, it even finds its way over there, even if it started internally.  I know this answer, but I'm curious anyway, you've gone into a few verticals as a company and kind of backed off of them because it was just too hard. Is part of the drive around just being corporate and guest experience by and large a way of kind of simplifying things and realizing, “Hey, verticals like retail are really difficult and verticals like hotels”, what you were doing on your own to some degree, let's say five, six, seven years ago. There's a whole bunch of companies who now say, we do hotels and we're after that market.  David Levin: Yeah. we haven't limited to workplace and guest experience, and again, some of our larger customers are customer-facing applications in retail environments, and they're extraordinarily successful. I think where you get into nuances is if you're going to sub-sectors of retail, let's say like a QSR, if you consider that retail and then you're looking at again, the solution overall, and then you're adding self-service kiosks and other parts of the application. If the customer wants all of that and you don't have that, or don't have the experience on that, then you're not going to be as competitive there. And so, it just depends on how much of the solution is more pure visual communications or digital signage in retail, and how much is broadening into other areas of retail, and I think sub-sectors of retail, QSR, grocery, or specialty retail, sometimes it broadens a bit. Right. You're having real-world experience, well like everybody, with the pandemic in terms of having a pretty significant office. I think the last time I got a count, you guys were up around 350 people, and most of those going into an office in Denver, where are you at now in terms of the number of people coming into the office? David Levin: Yeah. We've got about 350 people in Denver. There are about 20 people in the office. Well, we have two offices in Denver, so maybe 40 people on any given day in the office and it's purely voluntary. We've got plenty of space, so people that are coming in are well socially distant. And, we were shut down completely for several months and you know, your work from home experience differs based on what you have going on at home. And so we wanted for people that wanted to get out of the house for whatever reason, to have the ability to come back to the office in a safe way, so we opened it up, but it's a small percentage. I think we all have about 3000 square feet year at the office.  And coming out of this, do you anticipate that, based on the experience of so many people doing their work from home, when you have the opportunity with your lease, that you'll trim back and this homework will be permanent for some of your staff? David Levin: I don't know if we'll trim back, but I don't see us acquiring a lot more space because we're going to implement our own desk and room booking system and make everything bookable across the office, so people will use the office, as they need, for activity-based working. They'll book what they need when they need it, and I think there'll be this hybrid model of people working from home and working from the office. And, we'll enable that through the software, and put more investment in collaboration.  We're seeing our customers do this too. They're just putting more into teams’ rooms and Zoom’s rooms, so when part of your team's in the office and part of the teams out of the office, it's still really easy to get the resources you need to have effective collaboration.  Are you challenged at all by the Zoom(s) of the world and the big consulting companies like Deloitte(s) and Accenture(s) and ones like that who seem to be getting into this space?  You have Zoom that has a very elemental digital signage system, but you know, so much of what's being done these days is done over Zoom, that they could start to offer the capabilities that you guys are presenting.  David Levin: Yeah, so Zoom is very simple, and as you described, it's good and bad. And, to me, the good part about it is that if people start digital signage and do visual communications and they put screens out, and even if they start on zoom, at least they're getting screens out and chances are the more screens that are out the more their sophistication evolves for applications and management, etc. and they will come back to the market most likely and look for an enterprise provider. The bad is, of course, it is free and they get a little bit of the market, but, I think there's probably more good than bad. And with the large consulting companies, I think they're more partners than competitors and we've done some really great projects with most of them. And it's generally part of a big digital transformation scope. And there are some digital signage applications that are part of that scope, and then they're often using a product like ours to execute on that part of the scope.  Okay. So, they're happy to sell you guys into it as long as they're getting their consulting hours out of it?  David Levin: Definitely. Nobody wants to build all these applications from scratch, you want to use a platform.  Oh, I don't know about that. (Laughter) I get those phone calls and emails almost daily from people saying, “Hey, I'm doing a digital signage startup. Can we get on the phone and talk?” And I'll get on the phone with them and they’ll talk with me, “You would be software platform #487, doing what you just described to me. Please stop now.” It makes them sad, but too bad, I’m saving them a lot of money in the long run.  You are more a technical CEO than a number of CEOs who I speak with, who come more on the sales side or marketing side, where do you see things going in terms of the way all of this stuff is done?  We've had some shifts through the years. There's a hell of a lot more adaptation of systems on chip displays, then maybe, some early observers sought there might be, are we getting to a point where devices are nothing more than little edge devices and visual communications, as you call it, is very much a software-driven initiative, and we don't get fixated on the hardware?  David Levin: Yeah, I think so. From a software perspective, Cloud and IoT have been huge. If you look at a lot of what went into our R&D investment in the last four or five years, it was transforming our own software platforms to take advantage of native clouds and all the technologies around IoT that enable you to manage these remote devices. That just didn't exist when we started 15 years ago and it probably didn't exist five or seven years ago, but we get to take advantage of what the big cloud providers offer and how remote devices are managed in general, for consumers and businesses. Related to edge devices, it's getting a heck of a lot better. To be able to use edge devices effectively and still have pretty sophisticated applications that run on those, when we went live with cloud, we supported BrightSign, Samsung, and LG, we support those three in addition to our Windows platform. And it's a matter of picking the right device or the right use case.  Are enterprise customers, the IT teams, less antsy than they used to be about cloud and unfamiliar devices that aren't HP boxes or Dell boxes that they buy by the hundreds or thousands? David Levin: Yeah, they're embracing with really high-security standards. That was another big part of the investment because it's hard to sell cloud if the security is not there and end-user customers have a really sophisticated way to assess security. So yes, cloud with the security and as far as devices go, there is a movement, of course, to move away from Windows devices and the management that comes along with Windows devices but it also depends on the organization overall. There are some people where they are still heavy Window shops and it's easier for them. And then, there are a lot where if it's more of a, if there's less going on at the endpoint device, it's easier for them to manage overall.  Do you get a sense from end-users, when they're canvassing the potential vendors/service providers who can help them with their visual communications, that most of the people they have coming in really have their act together in terms of security, or is it a breath of fresh air for guys like you to come in and have sales engineers who can talk about serious security? David Levin: Yeah, it's a breath of fresh air, but also for us, we got the security department now, led by Maurice, he’s our Chief Security Officer. So the sales team often at a certain part of the sales cycle, or if customers are upgrading their security standards, which happens quite often, then we'll bring in the team members from our security group and they'll take over from there, cause it really is a specialized discipline. How long have you had that role in place?  David Levin: Gosh, I think I want to say Maurice joined us four years ago to head up the org, and now there are probably five people in the org, and they work closely with our cloud operations and our legal and compliance team and sales engineering. And, it's been a big part of maturing the organization. Yeah, I would imagine that there are end-user customers who are somewhat comforted by the fact that you have full-time people just in that case and not saying, “Oh yeah, we pay attention to security.”  David Levin: Well, they have made it a requirement. When you see some of the security addendums that are attached to contracts, if you don't have a team handling those, there’s just basically no way to comply.  So, looking ahead, I know this is a weird year. and it's hard to forecast anything, but work goes on, so what will we see out of Four Winds in the next 6 to 12 months?  David Levin: Yeah. I think in general, what I'm most excited about is that this world is getting more digital and I think, COVID is pushing that even faster because everybody has had to rethink everything they do.  If it's customer-facing, what's the new customer engagement model? In venues, how do we interact with customers in these venues in a safe way? And how does technology enable that? And digital signage fits in. And if you're in the workplace, it's the same thing related to that to return to work.  I think that's good for our industry overall. I think we play a key role in that. And, for us, we've got a great roadmap where we've got a couple of big releases coming out before the end of the year on Cloud, we’re excited about the integration with Smart Space. Look for more integrations with that on our platform and also us to take key elements of that, like their mobile and wayfinding and some of the other sensory integration, some of the other attributes, and do other use cases for key markets and, just keep, building the company. We're still got a lot of energy.  That's good. All right, David. Great to catch up with you.  David Levin: Thanks, Dave. Appreciate you having me on. Thanks for all you're doing.  

When can a cop kick you door in (hint, it's not just when you're being loud and drunk). But what if I'm in the middle of a murder? Probable cause and a pool full of drunks, screaming victims and gunshots. Fake warrants from real cops and never answer the door naked, because that's how you'll be going to jail. How not to act when disposing of a body. Don't sell little Timmy meth (he's a narc). Disordinary conduct is not disorderly conduct is not always illegal. You are now guilty until proven innocent because we want to take your stuff, especially in Oklahoma. Proven innocent? Too bad, we still have your stuff. Make that a single, no a double, no a triple jeopardy. It's OK, we all watch the murder network. Your first amendment rights aren't. Stupid criminal ideas. Are you a cop? No, I'm Elvis, ok Elvis, thank goodness you aren't a cop, here's your dope! Stop resisting! Always remain silent, unless at the drive through. Ron White used to be funny. DWI, BWI and FWI? Why Miranda isn't always your friend. The police can lie, the court says so! You are under the control of 10,000 little dictators. and an ode to the Second amendment. 

Michael Morpurgo is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author, known for his children’s books, notably ‘War Horse’. A former Children’s Laureate, he’s written more than 100 titles, as well as screenplays and libretti for opera. Morpurgo’s work often tackles social issues; his most recent book, ‘Boy Giant’, is based on ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ and features an Afghan refugee.

In this episode, host Andrew Geary speaks with John Etgen, Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal winner and upcoming Distinguished Lecturer for the third and fourth quarter of 2019. John and Andrew have an engaging and multi-faceted conversation on the current capabilities of depth imaging, the limitations of full-waveform inversion, his upcoming DL tour, how his time at Stanford and the Amoco Production Research Company impacted his career, and more. This episode proudly sponsored by ION Geophysical. Interviewee biography John Etgen received a Bachelor of Science degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University. During his studies, he had the good fortune to work on a wide variety of topics in seismic imaging and data processing while learning from his mentors, Jon Claerbout and Norm Bleistein, along with many talented colleagues and fellow students. He began his industrial career at the Amoco Production Research Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In Tulsa, he had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of topics and learn from leading researchers, such as Dan Whitmore, Rusty Alford, Kurt Marfurt, Ken Kelley, Sam Gray, and many others. In 1999, Amoco merged with British Petroleum (BP) and John moved to Houston, Texas. In 2008, he and Carl Regone were awarded the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal for their work in wide-azimuth marine seismic. In late 2011, John was appointed distinguished advisor for seismic imaging at BP. John currently serves as assistant editor for GEOPHYSICS and continues to work in the upstream technology organization at BP. Sponsor ION Geophysical is a pioneer in Full Waveform Inversion, an advanced model estimation technique that reduces exploration risk while enabling more effective development decisions. The ION suite of FWI technologies provide highly accurate models of the subsurface by utilizing the entire wave field, powering deeper and more robust model estimation across a range of acquisition configurations. Learn more about Full Waveform Inversion by typing "ION FWI" into your favorite search engine. Credits Interview: John Etgen Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary. Special thanks to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Crockett, Ashley Rodriguez, Ally McGinnis, and Mick Swiney, with additional support from Kathy Gamble. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Play, or Apple Podcasts to be the first to know about new episodes!

In this episode, host Andrew Geary speaks with John Brittan, contributor to March's The Leading Edge. March's special section returns to a common and major topic for TLE - full-waveform inversion. John highlights the advantages and disadvantages of several FWI approaches, discusses the possibilities and limitations of the technique, and explores the common themes across the seven papers. Episode 53 proudly sponsored by ION Geophysical. Interviewee biography John Brittan received a BSc in Physics from the University of Birmingham in 1992 and, thanks to a Shell Scholarship, a PhD from Imperial College, London in Geophysics in 1995. He then was a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow at Imperial, being part of the team who undertook the first seismic profile across the K-T boundary crater at Chicxulub and also being part of Imperial's pioneering efforts in full-waveform inversion. He joined Petroleum Geo-Services in 1997, where he worked on the research and development of data processing algorithms with particular interest in the fields of multiple removal, time-lapse processing, travel-time tomography and noise attenuation. John undertook a number of management roles at PGS including Head of Processing Technology and Chief Geophysicist for Data Processing and Technology. In 2013 he joined ION where he is Vice-President, Europe and Africa in the Imaging Services division. He is an active member of the PESGB, EAGE and SEG and was until recently an Associate Editor of Geophysical Prospecting. Subscribers can read the full articles in the SEG Digital Library at https://library.seg.org/and abstracts are always free. Show notes and links at https://seg.org/podcast. Sponsor ION Geophysical is a pioneer in Full Waveform Inversion, an advanced model estimation technique that reduces exploration risk while enabling more effective development decisions. The ION suite of FWI technologies provide highly accurate models of the subsurface by utilizing the entire wave field, powering deeper and more robust model estimation across a range of acquisition configurations. Learn more about Full Waveform Inversion by typing "ION FWI" into your favorite search engine. Credits Interview: John Brittan Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary. Special thanks to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Crockett, Ashley Rodriguez, Ally McGinnis, and Mick Swiney, , with additional support from Kathy Gamble. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Play, or Apple Podcasts to be the first to know about new episodes!

HOT91.9FM — Fight with Insight (FWI) is an open access gym that was established in the city with the vision of creating a safe place for the children of Johannesburg, using boxing to teach them life skills that assist them in taking responsibility for claiming their rights as law-abiding citizens of South Africa. Sipho Ngwenya (16yrs) Peace Ncube (16yrs) Reggie Mogashoa (22yrs). They have all trained exceptionally hard to reach this level of competency and be selected, despite the challenges they face in their day to day lives. They deserve the opportunity to compete as representatives of their club, district, and province. Approximately 120 children and young people between 7 and 25 years old and attend boxing sessions at FWI every week. Hot Cares will be donating R5 000 towards Boxing Kit, Travel costs to and from the competition and food for the boxers during the Championship tournament.

Fight with Insight (FWI) is an open access gym that was established in the city with the vision of creating a safe place for the children of Johannesburg, using boxing to teach them life skills that assist them in taking responsibility for claiming their rights as law-abiding citizens of South Africa. Sipho Ngwenya (16yrs) Peace Ncube (16yrs) Reggie Mogashoa (22yrs). They have all trained exceptionally hard to reach this level of competency and be selected, despite the challenges they face in their day to day lives. They deserve the opportunity to compete as representatives of their club, district, and province. Approximately 120 children and young people between 7 and 25 years old and attend boxing sessions at FWI every week. Hot Cares will be donating R5 000 towards Boxing Kit, Travel costs to and from the competition and food for the boxers during the Championship tournament. Hot Cares

It’s full steam ahead back into Train Town! In Atlas Chugged (and it’s only Atlas Chugged), Sir Topham and Ashima visit Thomas in the hospital, finally meeting up with our resident protagonists, Drs. Carson and Berg. For those not in this for the trains, back out now, and also: what are you even doing here? We witness Berg's sensitive side. Topics include: Lucid Narcolepsy, FWI, Chrysippean Tasks, Atlas Chugged: Edge of Destiny Section 2 Part 1, and Guns.

  Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Afanasiev to discuss his work on the Salvus library used for performing full-waveform inversions. Michael Afanasiev is currently working on his PhD in Geophysics. He became interested in programming and high performance computing during his BSc in Computational Physics, playing around with simulations of star formation. After a brief attempt to lead a roguish and exciting lifestyle as a field Geophysicist, he was brought back to the keyboard during a MSc, where he began working on full waveform inversion (FWI). In 2013 he moved to Switzerland to continue working on FWI as a PhD student at ETH Zurich, where he’s currently wrapping things into a thesis. He spends most of his time writing scientific software, wandering through the alps, and atoning for the times he repeated the mantra “Fortran is the best language for scientific computing.” News CppMem: An overview Why is .h more widely used then .hpp July update for Visual Studio Code C++ extension Michael Afanasiev Michael Afanasiev's Blog Michael Afanasiev on GitHub Links Salvus Combining Static and Dynamic Polymorphism with C++ Mixin classes Salvus: retaining runtime polymorphism with templates Salvus: dynamically inserting functionality into a mixin class hierarchy Sponsor Incredibuild  

The FWi team interview actors from The Archers, incuding Timothy Bentinck (David Archer), Felicity Finch (Ruth Archer), Trevor Harrison (Eddie Grundy) and Charles Collingwood (Brian Aldridge).

An interview with impressionist Jon Culshaw, conducted at the Farmers Weekly awards

The National Farmers’ union annual general meeting in Birmingham this week (26 and 27 February) marked the first anniversary of Peter Kendall’s time as NFU president. Farmer’s Weekly’s business reporter Caroline Stocks went along to ask members if they were impressed with Mr Kendall’s work over the past 12 months.

In this month's episode,FWi Web Manager Michael Targett visits Scotland to bring you all the action from Perth Bull Sales. To mark the launch of our new livestock blog 'Taking Stock', Michael talks to auctioneer David Leggat and experiences some busy bull sales action. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

In this month's episode,FWi Web Manager Michael Targett visits Scotland to bring you all the action from Perth Bull Sales. To mark the launch of our new livestock blog 'Taking Stock', Michael talks to auctioneer David Leggat and experiences some busy bull sales action. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Here's a little intermediate audio treat. Farmers Weekly launched a discussion forum thread about

Welcome to FWi's tenth podcast. In this month's episode,FW Deputy News Editor Isabel Davies discovers that to be a record-breaker, dedication is what you need!! To celebrate Breakfast Food Week, Isabel visits NFU headquarters in.... to witness a world record attempt at producing the world's largest bowl of porridge. Army chefs cooked up a huge pan of porridge using 20 kilograms of British oats and 50 litres of milk, witnessed by children from Crackley Hall school, Kenilworth To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's ninth podcast. In this month's episode, FWi gives you an exclusive backstage viewpoint of our recent Farmers Weekly Awards. We talk to the people which make the show run smoothly and give an idea of what it takes to make an event such a success. Hosted by FWi Web Manager Michael Targett and Farmlife Editor Tim Relf, interviews include: Philippa Vine, FW cookery expert; Francisco, the wine waiter; Debbie Beaton, FW Awards organiser; and Hugh Broom, FW columnist, Capital Radio travel reporter and the voice of the awards... To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's eighth podcast. In this episode FWi takes a ghostly trip up to Lincolnshire to visit what could be described as Britain's 'most haunted' farmhouse. We speak to the farm's owners about their ghoulish experiences and join them in a little bit of ghosthunting, to see whether the farm is a haven for the unexplained... To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's seventh podcast. In this episode FWi takes a trip up to Harper Adams University College to experience student life. We speak to various students about their academic and social activities at University and join them in the Student Union for a taste of a Wednesday night at Harper. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's sixth podcast. In this episode Deputy Editor Mike Stones is "having a go" at various countyr pursuits at the CLA Game Fair, including a close encounter with a ferret! The podcast also features a look at this year's harvest as we chat to Features Editor David Cousins from the cab of his family's working combine. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's fifth podcast. In this special episode we follow JCB's DieselMax vehicle going through its test run at RAF Wittering. The JCB DieselMax hopes to break the diesel land speed record. The podcast also features the DieselMax's driver, test pilot Andy Green, describing what the vehicle is like to drive. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's fourth podcast. In this episode we follow Deputy Livestock editor Chrissie Lawrence as she prepares and enter her Limousin bull at the Royal Show. We also feature some highlights from last month's Cereals Event (incorporating Sprayers and Sprayers) including the new JCB Fastrac. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Download" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's third podcast. In this special episode FW Arable editor Julian Gairdner talks to Conservative Leader David Cameron in an exclusive FWi interview on the way to the Royal Show. To listen to the podcast simply click on the the green "Play" button below. Alternatively, to download the podcast click on the "Dowload" link below. If you are experiencing problems when listening to the podcast (ie. playback speed) try downloading the file and selecting Windows Media Player as the playback program.

Welcome to FWi's second podcast. In this episode Machinery Editor Nick Fone and Features Editor David Cousins detail some highlights from the Grassland UK show. Also News Editor Jon Riley visits Phillipa Vine (Farmlife Flavours) as she takes us through a new recipe.

Welcome to FWi's pilot podcast. In this edition Jane King, Farmers Weekly editor, talks about our new Food Miles Campaign promoting local food. Also FWi Manager Michael Targett goes along for a test drive in a new 4wd vehicle - the Ssangyong Kyron.

Welcome to FWi's pilot podcast. In this edition Jane King, Farmers Weekly editor, talks about our new Food Miles Campaign promoting local food. Also FWi Manager Michael Targett goes along for a test drive in a new 4wd vehicle - the Ssangyong Kyron.