Dr. Bedle is currently involved with a variety of seismic interpretation research, including the use of seismic attributes and machine learning algorithms to improve our understanding of subsurface environments, with her colleagues and students. The most up-to-date list of publications, dissertations, and conference abstracts can be found on her consortium’s website: AASPI.
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
- Enhancing paleoreef reservoir characterization through machine learning and multi-attribute seismic analysis: Silurian reef examples from the Michigan Basin Carl Buist, Heather Bedle , Matthew Rine, and John Pigott, Geosciences (2021)
- Evolution of a Late Miocene Deep‐Water Depositional System in the Southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Clayton Silver and Heather Bedle, Geosciences (2021)
- Deepwater channel complex in the Taranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand Julian Chenin, Clayton Silver, and Heather Bedle, Interpretations (2021)
- Overbank sediment waves in the southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Clayton Silver and Heather Bedle, Interpretations (2021)
- Identification of polygonal faulting from legacy 3D seismic data in the Gulf of Mexico using seismic attributes”
Karen M. Leopoldino Oliveira, Heather Bedle, and Karelia La Marca Molina, Interpretations (2021)
- Controls of pre-existing structures on clinoform architecture and the associated progradational system elements Roberto Clairmont, Folarin Kolawole, Abah P. Omale, and Heather Bedle, Basin Research (2020)
- Are bright spots always hydrocarbon indicators – A case study from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand Pete Reilly Roberto Clairmont, and Heather Bedle, Interpretations (2020)
- Mass Transport Deposit (MTD) or complex channel system? A case study of the 3D Nimitz survey, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Roberto Clairmont and Heather Bedle, Interpretations (2020) - The importance of recognizing multiples in legacy data – A case study from the Brazilian equitorial margin Karen M. Leopoldino Oliveira, Heather Bedle, Gabriel de A. Araujo, and Mariano Castelo Branco, Interpretations (2020)
- Seismic characterization of a blocky mass transport deposit in the Traella Limestone Formation – Northern Carnavron Basin, Australia Laura Ortiz Sanguino, Jerson Javier Tellez, Heather Bedle, and Dilan Martinez Sanchez, Interpretations (2020)
- Multiattribute machine learning for weak BSR detection in the Pegasus Basin, Offshore New Zealand Julian Chenin and Heather Bedle, Marine Geophysical Research (2020)
- Leopoldino Oliveira, K., H. Bedle, R.M.G.C. Branco, A.C.B.de Souza, F.N. Filho, M.N. Normando, N.M de Almeida, T. H da Silva Barbosa. Seismic Stratigraphic Patterns and Characterization of Deepwater Reservoirs of the Mundaú Sub-Basin, Brazilian Equatorial Margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol 116, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104310
- Bedle, H., Seismic attribute enhancement of weak and discontinuous gas hydrate bottom-simulating reflectors in the Pegasus Basin, New Zealand. Interpretations, Vol 7, Iss. 3, 2019.
- Amonpantang, P., H. Bedle, J. Wu, Multi-attribute analysis for channel element discrimination in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Interpretations, Vol.7, Iss. 2, 2019.
Newsletter Publications:
- The importance of properly cropping seismic data A Brazilian Equatorial Margin example Karen Leopoldino Oliveira and Heather Bedle, AAPG Explorer Geophysical Corner (2021)
- Convolutional Neural Network for fault prediction: Interpreter versus machine learning Christ Ramos and Heather Bedle, AAPG Explorer Geophysical Corner (2021)
- Applications of generative topographic maps on post-stack data to enhance carbonate reservoir characterization Clayton Silver, Heather Bedle, and Matthew Rine, Geophysical Society of Houston Journal (2021)
- A geoscientist-guided multiattribute SOM analysis Karelia LaMarca and Heather Bedle, AAPG Explorer Geophysical Corner (2020)
Dr. Bedle’s grad school research: Seismic tomography of the upper mantle:
- Mantle structure beneath the Tethyan margin
- Radial anisotropy along the Tethyan margin (Chang et al., 2010)
- Joint inversion for 3-dimensional S-velocity mantle structure along the Tethyan margin (Chang et al., 2010)
- S-wave Structure of the North American Upper Mantle
- Bedle and Van der Lee (2009)
- Model NA07 can be downloaded from Northwestern University or at IRIS
- NSF funded Earthscope has several ‘science nuggets’ regarding results of these tomographic models.
- Seismic tomography of the Illinois Basin
- Fossil flat-slab subduction beneath the Illinois Basin (Bedle and Van der Lee, 2006)
Dr. Bedle’s (likely outdated) CV
2D seismic line investigating gas hydrates through seismic attribute study in New Zealand.
