2013 Honorary Lecturer Middle East & Africa | George Smith University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa AVO in Exploration and Development | | Biography  George Smith is a senior lecturer in geophysics at the University of Cape Town. Before that he was exploration manager of Soekor (now PetroSA), the national oil company of South Africa. He started his career with the Seismograph Service group, with whom he worked in Somalia, Nigeria and Iran. He received the Reginald Fessenden Award from SEG in 2002, and the Rudolf Krahmann Memorial Medal from the South African Geophysical Association (SAGA) in 2005, for his work on AVO. He was for eight years the Africa Regional Coordinator on the SEG Global Affairs Committee. He founded and was first chair of the Western Cape branch of SAGA, chair of SAGA Biennial Conferences in 1999 and 2011 and technical chair of the SAGA Biennial Conference in 2005. He is a member of SEG, EAGE, AAPG, SAGA, and the Geological Society of South Africa, where he serves on the Western Cape Geoheritage Committee. He is a director of PetroSA. In his spare time, he is a South African National Parks Honorary Ranger, chair of their National Training Committee, and member of their National Executive Committee. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cambridge. | | | | | | |
