Dr. Andreas Stark is a consulting geophysicist who has been involved in geophysics since the 1960's. Andreas' recent book Seismic Methods and Applications has won the 2009 Text and Academic Authors TEXTY AWARD for excellence. The book also had an excellent peer review in the July 2009 Society of Exploration Geophysicists' Leading Edge Journal. Andreas has been teaching applied seismology for the last twenty years and has written many course manuals on the subject. Andreas is currently working on a new book that will discuss the methods to determine the risk factors of oil and gas exploration.