Reinaldo J. Michelena is awarded Life Membership for his consistent body of meritorious volunteer service to the Society. He has served SEG in many capacities. Most notable has been his work in publications. Michelena served on The Leading Edge Editorial Board from 2008 to 2011 and was chair in 2011. Michelena currently serves on the Translations Committee where he has put in a significant amount of effort. When he served as Translations Committee chair (2016–2018), he led a group of more than 100 volunteers in pursuit of the Spanish translation of Robert Sheriff’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Geophysics, which was recently completed. He was a corecipient of the 2017 SEG Wiki Champion Award for his efforts on that translation project. Also noteworthy was Michelena’s service from 1994 to 2001 as an associate editor of Geophysics in the topical area of inversion. He has served on many other committees including Publications, Development and Production, and Research. Michelena has co-organized multiple SEG workshops. Besides his volunteer service to the membership, he has been an outstanding explorationist. He has advocated for an integrated approach to applied geophysics with many significant contributions to our science, as evidenced by a long history of well-cited publications. He has been identified as one of the early champions of discipline integration, while always remaining an advocate for and promoter of the value of geophysics to his geology and engineering collaborators.

by Satinder Chopra