David Lumley

David Lumley received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in geophysics and astronomy from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in geophysics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1995. He is currently a Professor of Earth sciences and physics at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), Richardson, TX, USA, the Cecil and Ida Green Endowed Chair in geophysics, the Department Head of sustainable earth systems sciences, and the Director of the Seismic Imaging and Inversion Laboratory at UT Dallas. Previously, he was a Professor, the Chair in geophysics, and the Founding Director of the Center for Energy Geoscience, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia, where he was jointly appointed at the School of Physics and Astrophysics and the School of Earth and Environment. He was the Founder and a Leader of the 4-D Seismic Research Group, Chevron Research, San Ramon, CA, USA, and the Founder and the CEO of Fourth Wave Imaging Corporation (purchased by Fugro in 2007), Aliso Viejo, CA, USA. His research interests include wavefield data recorded with large-N sensor arrays, using man-made sources, and natural sources such as earthquakes and ambient seismic noise. Applications include imaging and time-lapse monitoring of the Earth’s subsurface, natural resources, energy, water, fluid flow, CO2 injection and storage, natural and induced earthquake seismicity, and astrophysical gravitational waves; covering a broad range of scales including the near-surface “critical zone,” oceans, sediments, deep aquifers and reservoirs, subduction zones, tectonic crust and mantle, planets and moons, and astrophysics. Dr. Lumley was a recipient of SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award.