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University of Witwatersrand Permanent Staff | Part-time Lecturers | Honarary Staff

 
University of Witwatersrand Permanent Staff

The three permanent geophysics staff members at the University of the Witwatersrand are:

  • Dr. G.R.J. Cooper (Associate Professor), B.Sc. ( Manchester University), M.Sc. (Newcastle upon Tyne), Ph.D. (Wits). Mathematical geophysics, inverse theory, chaos theory, wavelets, image processing.
  • Dr. S. J. Webb (Lecturer), B.Sc. (SUNY, Binghamton), M.Sc. (Memorial), Ph.D. (Wits). Gravity, magnetics, applied seismology, tectonics.
  • Dr. M.Q.W. Jones (Senior Lecturer), B.Sc. (Rhodes), Ph.D. (Wits), heat flow, tectonics.

Dr. Sue Webb is the AfricaArray coordinator at Wits, and Dr. Mike Jones is in charge of student affairs, applications and teaching programmes.

Part-time Lecturers

Teaching and research supervision also is provided by a number of part-time lecturers:

  • Dr. Gerhard Graham, Council for Geoscience (South Africa), B.Sc. (Port Elizabeth), Ph.D. (Edinburgh), Earthquake seismology, seismic hazards
  • Dr. Ray Durrheim, CSIR MiningTek ( South Africa), B.Sc. (Wits), M.Sc. ( Pretoria), Ph.D. (Wits), Reflection seismology, mine seismology
  • Dr. Declan Vogt, CSIR MiningTek ( South Africa), B.Sc. (Wits), Ph.D. (Wits), ground penetrating radar.
Honorary Staff

Additional support for specialist teaching and research supervision is provided by a number of honorary staff:

  • Dr. Artur Chicowiz, (ISSI, South Africa), Mine seismology
  • Dr. David James, (Carnegie Inst., Washington D.C.), earthquake seismology, tectonics
  • Prof. Thomas Jordan, (U. Southern California), earthquake seismology
  • Dr. Mark Muller, (Cube Geophysics, South Africa), reflection seismology
  • Prof. Andrew Nyblade, (Penn State University), earthquake seismology, potential fields, tectonics
  • Prof. Colin Reeves, (ITC, Enschede, Netherlands), potential fields, tectonics
  • Prof. Trond Torsvik, (Geol. Survey Norway), geodynamics, paleomagnetism