What does a geophysicist do after retirement? People often say that retirement is a time when "the world is your oyster," and there is a great deal of truth in that. For many, it becomes an opportunity to explore interests that a busy career never allowed. For me, that journey unexpectedly led to volunteering with the Geophysical Society of Houston.

In the early 1970’s, a Robert H. Ray Vibroseis crew was working in the coal country of Pennsylvania for Amoco. Part of the planned...

GSH Doodlebugger Diary article on land-based seismic acquisition in Tanzania in the mid-1970’s with Western Geophysical crew V-30.

Story of the launching and life of the R/V Hollis Hedberg, a seismic research vessel owned and operated by Gulf Oil in the 1970's and 1980's

Seismic exploration in the early 1970's in the Amazon River of Brazil.

This article is a 2D seismic acquisition survey in the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific in 1973 along with a tectonic summary of the area.

This article describes efforts to acquire some of the original 2D seismic data in the Amazon jungle of eastern Peru in the early 1970’s.

Recounting the early history of Western Geophysical’s boat building escapades with the launching of the Western Islander in Singapore in 197