Sarah Greer

  • Program Years: 2018-2022
  • Academic Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Field of Study: Mathematics and Computational Science
  • Academic Advisor: Laurent Demanet
  • Practicum(s):
    Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
    Los Alamos National Laboratory (2020)
  • Degree(s):
    B.S. Geological Sciences, and B.S. Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 2018

Current Status

Publications

JOURNAL PAPERS:
Greer, S. Y., Hyman, J. D., O'Malley, D., A Comparison of Linear Solvers for Resolving Flow in Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Networks. Water Resources Research (April 2022). doi: 10.1029/2021WR031188

Greer, S., Fomel, S., Matching and merging high-resolution and legacy seismic images. GEOPHYSICS 83(2) (Feb. 2018), V115-V122. doi: 10.1190/geo2017-0238.1.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS:
Greer, S., O'Malley, D., An approach to seismic inversion with quantum annealing. In: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Sept. 2020. doi:10.1190/segam2020-3424413.1.

Greer, S., Fomel, S., Fry, M., Prestack phase corrections using local seismic attributes. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Aug. 2019. doi:10.1190/segam2019-3214515.1.

Greer, S., Xue, Z., Fomel, S., Improving migration resolution by approximating the least-squares Hessian using non-stationary amplitude and frequency matching. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2018:4261-4265. doi: 10.1190/segam2018-2998434.1.

Greer, S, & Fomel, S. Balancing local frequency content in seismic data using non-stationary smoothing. In: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2017:4278-4282. doi: 10.1190/segam2017-17748682.1.

Greer, S, & Fomel, S. Matching and merging high-resolution and legacy seismic images. In: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2017:5933-5937. doi: 10.1190/segam2017-17748311.1.

Awards

RESEARCH AWARDS:
Best Geophysics Presentation, Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rice University (October 22, 2016), on "Matching and merging high-resolution and legacy seismic images"

ACADEMIC AWARDS:
Phi Beta Kappa Society (inducted May 2017)
Jackson School of Geosciences Undergraduate Honors Research Program (2016-2018)
UT Honors College Scholar, College of Natural Sciences (2017, 2018)
UT Honors College Scholar, Jackson School of Geosciences (2016, 2017, 2018)

SCHOLARSHIPS:
Guy E. Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2016)
W. Kenley Clark Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2016)
Jacque Nell and David Scott Holland, Sr. Student Excellence in the Geosciences Scholarship (2015)
Pinar Oya Yilmaz and Zeynep Atalay Undergraduate Scholarship in the Geosciences (2015)
Joseph S. Cullinan Memorial Scholarship in Geological Sciences (2015)
Jackson School of Geosciences Undergraduate Support Scholarship (2014, 2017)