Baziw Consulting Engineers Ltd.

Specializing in Seismic System Designs

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ERICK BAZIW, Ph.D., P.Eng.
 email:ebaziw@bcengineers.com

 

EDUCATION


University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
PhD in Seismic Signal Processing (specializing in real-time, nonlinear, state-space seismic signal processing, event detection, and blind deconvolution - PhD thesis entitled:  "Application of Bayesian Recursive Estimation for Seismic Signal Processing")


University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Post Graduate Studies in Electrical Engineering:
Two years of directed post graduate study, concentrating on optimal filtering, optimal control, and advanced computer graphics.


University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Master of Applied Science in Civil Engineering (ie., UBC In-Situ Group)


University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Bachelor of Applied Science in Geophysical Engineering


 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS


Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of British Columbia, APEGBC (registered as a Software and Geophysics Engineer)

Senior IEEE Member
ASTM Member
APEGBC Computer and Software Engineering Division, CSED
Consortium for the Development of Specialized Seismic Techniques (CDSST)
Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE
Software Productivity Centre, SPC

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE


Erick Baziw has over twenty years of experience in the design and implementation of digital signal processing and optimal estimation algorithms. His interest include mathematical modeling, digital signal processing, optimal estimation, and simulation of dynamical systems in geotechnical and geophysical engineering applications. His is currently involved with the development of seismic tomography algorithms and the implementation of sequential Monte Carlo filtering technique for seismic wave event detection and blind seismic deconvolution.

 

PUBLICATIONS


1.  Baziw, E. (2010). “Incorporation of Iterative Forward Modeling into the Principle Phase Decomposition Algorithm for Accurate Source Wave and Reflection Series Estimation”. to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Geosci. Remote Sensing .

2.  Baziw, E. (2007), "Implementation of the Principle Phase Decomposition Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 1775-1785, June. 2007.


3. Baziw, E. and Ulrych, T.J. (2006), "Principle Phase Decomposition - A New Concept in Blind Seismic Deconvolution", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 2271-2281, Aug. 2006.


4. Baziw, E. (2005), "Real-Time Seismic Signal Enhancement Utilizing a Hybrid Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter and Hidden Markov Model Filter", IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL), vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 418-422, Oct. 2005.


5. Baziw, E. and Ulrych, T.J. (2004), "A Rao-Blackwellised type algorithm for passive seismic event detection",  In Proceedings of the 8th Technical Meeting of the Consortium for the Development of Specialized Seismic Techniques (CDSST-2004), Vancouver, 14-15 December, Department of Geophysics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 135-164.


6. Baziw, E. (2004), "State-Space Seismic Cone Minimum Variance Deconvolution".  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Site Characterization (ISC-2), Porto, Portugal, 19-22 Sept. Millpress Science Publishers,  835-842.


7. Baziw, E. (2004), "Two and three dimensional imaging utilizing the seismic cone penetrometer ". In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Site Characterization (ISC-2), Porto, Portugal, 19-22 Sept. Millpress Science Publishers, 1611-1618.


8. Baziw, E., Nedilko, B, and Weir-Jones, I (2004), "Microseismic Event Detection Kalman Filter: Derivation of the Noise Covariance Matrix and Automated First Break Determination for Accurate Source Location Estimation" , Pure appl. geophys. Vol. 161, Number 2, 303-329.


9. Baziw, E., and Weir-Jones, I (2002), "Application of Kalman Filtering Techniques for Microseismic Event Detection", Pure appl. geophys. Vol. 159, 449-471.


10. Baziw, E. (2002), "Derivation of Seismic Cone Interval Velocities Utilizing Forward Modeling and the Downhill Simplex Method", Can. Geotech. J. Vol. 39: 1181-1192.


11. Baziw, E., Tichy, J, and de Caprona, G (2000),"Data Acquisition in Seismic Cone Penetration Testing". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Technical Approaches to Site Characterization (ITASCE), Argonne, IL, 11-14 Sept. 2000. Argonne National Laboratory. pp. 69-72.


12. Maher, Barbra Schuessler and Thomas L. Davis, Colorado School of Mines, Weir-Jones, Iain and Baziw, E.J., Weir-Jones Engineering Ltd. ,"Passive Seismic Monitoring of a CO2 Injection Program for Fracture Detection", presented at the 1998 SEG International Exposition & 68th Annual Meeting.

13. Baziw, E. (1996), "ECDIS Steering Algorithm for Vessel Autopilot", In Proceedings of the IEEE Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Atlanta, Georgia, 22-26 April. IEEE Publication, 103-113.

14. Baziw, E. (1996), "Field Trials of ECPINS Vessel Positioning Algorithm", In Proceedings of the IEEE Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Atlanta, Georgia, 22-26 April. IEEE Publication, 121-129.


15. Baziw, E. (1994),  Dead Reckoning/Target Tracking in a ECDIS Environment",  In Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation's National Technical Meeting, San Diego, California, 24-26 Jan. ION Publication, 747-756.


16. Baziw, E. (1993), "Digital Filtering Techniques for Interpreting Seismic Cone Data". Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 119(6): 98-1018.


17. Baziw, E., Campanella, R.G., and Sully, J.P. (1989), "Interpretation of Seismic Cone Data Using Digital Filtering Techniques". InProceedings of the 12thInternational Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, 13-18 Aug. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.


18. Baziw, E. (1988), "Application of Digital Filtering Techniques for Reducing and Analyzing In-Situ Seismic Time Series", MASc Thesis, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, June 1988.


19.  Baziw, E. (1986),"Concepts of Kalman Filtering and the Application to Seismic Time Series Analysis", BASc Thesis, Dept. of Geophysical Engineering, University of British Columbia, June 1986.


 20. Baziw, E. (2007), "Application of Bayesian Recursive Estimation for Seismic Signal Processing", Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2007.

 

PATENT


"Method For Determining Velocity and Confidence Level of Acoustic Waves in Penetrable Ground", U.S. Patent Number: 5,177,709 - 1993/01/05;Canadian Patent Number: 2,077,387-1 - 1996/01/09.

 

AWARDS


Richard S. Ladd D18 Standards Development Award
2001 Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT) Award
OSL Merit Award
NSERC Research Grants
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award

 

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES


Drafting of the ASTM D 18.09 standards for Downhole Seismic Testing
Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to the Canadian Geotechnical Journal