HoustonWW2017

SEG Seismic Working Workshop - Reproducible Tutorials - August 9-13, 2017

Working Workshops as opposed to "talking workshops" are meetings where the participants work in pairs or small teams to develop new software code or to conduct computational experiments addressing a particular problem. In this workshop participants will work in small groups to create short, reproducible, geophysical tutorials. These tutorials are inspired by The Leading Edge geophysical tutorial articles. Groups will make lightning talks (a five minute presentation) at then end of the workshop. An open repository will be created to share presentations and code after the workshop.

Objective

Groups of two or three participant were formed at the working workshop to create reproducible tutorials. The tutorial should be on a topic of interest to seismic interpreters, applied geophysicists, and general earth scientists. It should be about 1500 words, two or three figures, and code to makes the figures. Groups used any system to create and share the code that allows the tutorial figures to be reproduced by readers after the workshop. The tutorials may be candidates for publication (eg The Leading Edge geophysical tutorial articles or the software section of Geophysics). groups came up with their own ideas or read previous TLE tutorials, Geophysical Image Estimation by Example (http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/), Seismic Unix demos, Madagascar reproducible documents, or Geophysical Society of Houston “Tutorial Nuggets”. Study, extend, or translate some of this material to another system. Collaborate and share your experience in a lightning talk (a five minute presentation).

Participants used their own laptops and software to create a tutorial during the workshop. Wifi internet access was available.

This working workshop provided a forum for geophysicist to learn, contribute, and network.

Previous tutorials from The Leading Edge can be downloaded with:

git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2014
git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2015
git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2016
git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2017

Workshop agenda

• Wednesday afternoon August 9, 2017 3:00-6:00 PM. Optional work session to configure your computer and install open seismic software
  • Do you want help getting your computer up to speed before the working workshop? Come for informal, one-on-one assistance to:
    • Install Linux on your computer.
    • Configure Linux/OSX on your computer.
    • Install Seismic Unix on your computer
    • Install Madagascar on your computer.
    • Install Jupyter and python on your computer.
    • Install a virtual Linux system on your Windows computer that will allow you to experiment with a Linux development environment.
      
      

• Thursday August 10, 2017 (working workshop starts)
  • 8:30-9:00 Coffee
  • 9:00-10:00 Introductions, project proposals, and team formations
  • 10:00-12:00 Breakout into work teams
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00-2:00 Group discussion
  • 2:00-5:30 Breakout into work teams

• Friday August 11, 2017
  • 8:30-9:00 Coffee. Reform teams.
  • 9:00-12:00 Breakout into work teams
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00-2:00 Group discussion
  • 2:00-5:30 Breakout into work teams
  • 6:00-8:00 Dinner

• Saturday August 12, 2017
  • 8:30-9:00 Coffee. Reform teams.
  • 9:00-12:00 Breakout into work teams
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00-2:00 Finalize lightning talks
  • 2:00-3:00 Lighting talks

Synopsis of results with links

Overview Presentation of Results

Karl Schleicher completed a report of the highlights of the working workshop. view Schleicher's overview presentation

Keynote Presentation by Matt Hall

Matt Hall made a presentation via Skype at the beginning of the workshop describing his experience in participatory meetings. He has organized several Geophysics Hackathons. He provided an overview of the Tutorials in The Leading Edge. view Hall's Keynote presentation.

Luke Decker, Matt Sexton, Will Sanger

This group created tutorial material on Kirchhoff migration. Started with an SEP tutorial from the Madagascar source code repository they implemented least squares migration in Madagascar and Kirchhoff migration and modeling in a Jupyter notebook. A seperate accomplishment was to identify a web site that describes how to install Madagascar using Docker. view Sanger's presentation

Pongthep Thongsang, Lian Jiang, Hoa Li

This group created a Madagascar modeling and processing tutorial. Starting with a modeling and processing papers in the Madagascar source code repository they created a beginners tutorial for the Madagascar software package. Their tutorial demonstrates finite difference modeling of cary of there Marmots 2 model and simple processing including NMO, stack, and post stack depth migration. The paper will soon be added to the Madagascar repository and the online reproducible papers. [/RSF/book/data/marmousi2mp/paper_html/ view paper by Thongsang et al ]

Wenyuan Zhang

Wenyuan Zhang encounterred problems running parallel Madagascar programs on the University of Houston Cluster. These are due to onitereaction between Madagascar patella options, the cluster configuration, the slum queueing system, and the scons environment. He was able to make small updates to Madagascar source code files api.c and config.py and his scripts now run. These updates have been included in the Madagascar distribution repository.

Karl Schleicher

Reproduces one to "The Leading Edge Tutorials", Linear Inversion. The Jupyter notebook must be changed if you want to run using Python 2.7 instead of 3.5. This work lead to a new tutorial for :The Leading Edge" on the Conjugate Gradient Method. This tutorial is tentatively scheduled to be published in April 2018. view schleicher's tle tutorial

tar file of results

The scripts created at the working workshop are saved in a a zipped tar file that can be downloaded. download ww-hou17.tar.gz

Contact us

If you have some ideas about working workshops, tell us about it! Send email to seismic.working.workshop@gmail.com.

Location

Rm 223, Science & Research Bld1
University of Houston
3507 Cullen Boulevard
Houston, TX 77204-5007

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Supporting Organizations

SEG Wavelets

SEG Wavelets is the University of Houston's SEG student chapter. It is devoted to promoting education in exploration geophysics. We work with professional organizations, industry professionals, University of Houston faculty, and other student organizations to bring students educational, social, and possible future employment opportunities. More details can be found on our website.

The Rice Inversion Project

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University