Michael Fehler received the Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1979. He has been with the College of Oceanography at Oregon State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was a Leader of the Geophysics Group and later the Division Director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. He later was a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. He was Technical Project Manager for two completed projects run by the SEG Advanced Modeling Corporation and is currently working on one that is focused on carbon sequestration. His research interests include seismic imaging, reservoir characterization, seismic scattering, geothermal energy, and induced seismicity. He has coauthored two editions of a book on seismic wave propagation and scattering and subsequently one on borehole seismology. He has authored or coauthored more than 125 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Fehler was the President of the Seismological Society of America from 2005 to 2007. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America for nine years.