Principal Engineer, Fleet Space Technologies
Presentation Topic: The transformation of geophysical acquisition: new hardware, new physics
Tim Dean is a Principal Engineer at Fleet Space Technologies. He has an Honours degree in Geophysics from Curtin University and a PhD in physics from the University of New South Wales. His varied geophysical career has included working in marine on-board processing throughout south-east Asia for Western Geophysical, seismic acquisition for WesternGeco across six continents, software-development and research for Schlumberger in the UK, Norway, and Australia, as an academic at Curtin University, and more recently, within the mining industry for BHP and AngloAmerican. Outside geophysics he was a Project Advisor at HawkEye Technology (a division of Sony) in the UK. He has worked on many of the new acquisition technologies introduced in the last 20 years including large-bandwidth high-density acquisition, simultaneous-sources, nodal systems, and distributed acoustic sensing. He is a long-time member of the SEG, EAGE and ASEG, serving on multiple boards and conference committees. In 2024 he was the SEG honorary lecturer for the Pacific South region and is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Exploration Geophysics.