2134 MacArthur St.
Houston, TX 77030
USA
(713) 660-9474 morganpbrown@gmail.com
sep.stanford.edu/~morgan
Education Stanford University, Ph.D. Geophysics
 Dissertation: “Least-Squares Joint Imaging of Multiples and Primaries” 2004
Rice University, B.A. Computational and Applied Mathematics
1997
Experience Senior Geophysict 3DGeo Development, Inc. Houston, TX
 Seismic R&D within Technology Development Team
11/2006 to present
Geophysicist Hess Corp. Houston, TX
 Seismic R&D within Geoscience Technology group o Reflection tomography o Robust seismic event tracking o Common-azimuth prestack depth migration
 Seismic amplitude modeling for western GoM exploration efforts.
 Contractor QC for reflection tomography projects
 Campus recruiting
Research Assistant Stanford Exploration Project Stanford, CA
 Conducted research in reflection seismology, geophysical inversion, seismic data processing, and parallel computing.
 Designer, maintainer, and administrator of SEP’s website.
Research Intern Landmark Graphics Corp. Englewood, CO
 Wrote velocity model building software for DepthTeam Express package
Geophysicist Western Geophysical, Inc. Houston, TX
 Software development for OMEGA seismic processing package o Fast, heapsort-based trimmed running median velocity smoother o Polynomial interpolation for picked velocity functions
Summer Intern Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO
 Wrote Java applets to compute the gravity response of buried sphere and the magnetic response of a buried volcanic dike.
Selected
Publications
M.P. Brown, S.A. Morton, and G. Whittle, Seismic event tracking by global path optimization, 76th Ann. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys.
M. Vyas and M.P. Brown, Application of least-squares joint imaging of multiples and primaries to shallow-water data, 76th Ann. Mtg., Soc. Expl.
Geophys.
* peer-reviewed
publication
M.P. Brown and A. Guitton, Least-squares joint imaging of multiples and
8/2004 to
11/2006
9/1997 to
6/2004
8/2000 to
1/2001
3/1997 to
8/1997
5/1996 to
8/1996
2006
2006
2005
* References upon request

primaries*, Geophysics , v. 70, #5, pp. S79-S89
M.P. Brown, Least-squares Joint Imaging of Multiples and Primaries , Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University
2004
M. Brown, Least-squares joint imaging of multiples and primaries, 74th Ann.
Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys.
2004
M. Brown and A. Guitton, Efficient prestack modeling and imaging of pegleg multiples, 74th Ann. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys.
2004
A. Guitton, M. Brown, J.E. Rickett, R.G. Clapp, Multiple attenuation using a t-x pattern-based subtraction method, 71st Ann. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys.
2001
M. Brown, B. Biondi, and C. Kostov, Wave-equation prestack depth migration for sub-basalt P and converted wave imaging: Stanford Exploration Project report 110
2001
M. Brown, Estimation of systematic errors in tracked datasets using least squares crossing point analysis: Stanford Exploration Project report 110
2001
M. Brown and R.G. Clapp, T-x domain, pattern-based ground roll removal, 70th
Ann. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys.
2000
M. Brown and J.F. Claerbout, A pseudo-unitary implementation of the Radial
Trace Transform, 70th Ann. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys.
2000
J.B. Bednar, M.P. Brown, and R.G. Clapp Application of Helix Filters to Pattern-
Based Multiple Suppression, Offshore Techonology Conference
2000
J.F. Claerbout and M.P. Brown, Two-dimensional textures and prediction-error filters, 61st Ann. Mtg., Eur. Assoc. Expl Geophys.
1999
Awards and
Honors
Outstanding Geophysics reviewer
Top 5 poster at Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting for
“Efficient modeling and imaging of pegleg multiples”
Top 25 paper at Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting for “ Tx domain, pattern-based groundroll removal”
Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
Skills
School of Earth Sciences Teaching Assistant Award
 Proficient in Fortran 77/90, Java, C/C++, Matlab, perl, GNU Make, LaTeX,
UNIX, HTML
 Parallel programming in MPI, computing on Linux clusters
 GeoQuest tools for seismic interpretation/analysis: IESX, Geology Office,
Synthetics
 Apache webserver configuration and administration
 MySQL database programming and administration
2006
2004
2000
2001
2001