Seismos: C19 Update - New Look and Brazil Request

Prof. Liner is Associate Dean of Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas, holds the Maurice F. Storm Chair of Petroleum Geology, served 6 years as UA Geosciences Department Chair, and served as 2014/5 SEG President.

Liner earned a BS in Geology (U. Arkansas, 1978), MS. in Geophysics (U. Tulsa, 1980), and PhD in Geophysics (Colo. School of Mines, Center for Wave Phenomena, 1989). He has 11 years industrial experience in exploration (Conoco) and geophysical research (Western Geo, Fairfield, Saudi Aramco). From 1990-2004 Liner was a faculty member in Geosciences at The University of Tulsa. In January 2008 he joined the faculty of the University of Houston as Professor and Associate Director of the Allied Geophysical Labs industrial consortium. In fall 2011 he was named Department Associate Chair and Interim Chair in spring 2012.

Prof. Liner’s research interests include geothermal power generation, energy transition, petroleum seismic imaging and interpretation, CO2 sequestration, and near surface geophysics. He has served as Editor of Geophysics (1999-2001), authored many technical papers, scientific meeting abstracts, The Leading Edge column Seismos (since 1992), and the text book Elements of 3D Seismology soon in 3rd edition. Liner is a member of SEG, AAPG, AGU, EAGE and the European Academy of Sciences.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

C19 Update - New Look and Brazil Request

New four panel plot for logistic fit of cumulative C19 death data for world, Spain, US, and Arkansas. Note the low uncertainty on world, US and Arkansas because they are not yet rolled over the top. But Spain shows high uncertainty for logistic fit because past the ramp midway point it is increasingly lognormal rather than logistic.

Second four panel plot is Lognormal fit for same regions, with uncertainty complimentary to the logistic plot. Here we see low uncertainty on lognormal because the data hugs a lognormal curve very tightly. I predict that eventually world, US and Arkansas will also show Lognormal behavior and tighten up on uncertainty.