Moving new seismic methods from theory to practice can require attention to progress in separate but related scientific and engineering disciplines, says the incoming president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.“A lot of time it takes experience with other data sets” to bring a new geophysical method into commercial application in the field, says Larry Lines, professor of geophysics at the University of Calgary.The most innovative geophysical techniques often can take a decade to implement, notes Lines, who becomes president at SEG’s annual meeting in Las Vegas this week.“Sometimes this involves the implementation of methods in a simple, robust manner,&rd...