Biography

 Dave Monk is the Director of Geophysics at Apache Corporation. Dave is responsible for worldwide seismic activity including acquisition and processing in areas such as: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, North Sea and the domestic USA. Having completed a Ph.D. in physics, he worked on seismic crews in Nigeria for two years, and has subsequently been involved in seismic processing and acquisition in most parts of the world. Monk has received “best paper” awards from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Canadian SEG, and was recipient of the Hagedoorn Award from the European Association of Exploration Geophysics. He was the first vice president of SEG in 2006.