Gary Mavko (1949) is an emeritus professor of geophysics at Stanford University.
Gary then joined the Tectonophysics branch of the USGS in Menlo Park where he worked in areas of rock physics and earthquake fault mechanics.
[2] Gary Mavko co-directs the "Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Project" (SRB), a group of approximately 25 researchers (faculty, research associates, post-docs, and graduate students), working on problems related to wave propagation in earth materials - the field of Rock Physics.
The goal is to better understand how rocks, pore fluids, and physical conditions of temperature and stress impact wave propagation, particularly in disordered, heterogeneous media.
Mavko received the 2014 "New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons" (Upstream) ENI award together with Tapan Mukerji, Jack Dvorkin and Dario Grana.