2010 Honorary Lecturer, Susan Webb, Middle East and Africa |  | Deep Gravity—Long Wavelengths and Measured Moho
Presented by Susan Webb
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa | | | Susan Webb originates from upstate New York and received her BSc in geophysics from SUNY Binghamton, USA, and her MSc in geophysics from Memorial University in Newfoundland. In search of warmer weather and adventure, she moved to South Africa and worked for several years as an exploration geophysicist for Gold Fields of South Africa. Currently she is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, specializing in the interpretation and modeling of gravity and magnetic data. Her PhD from Wits University combined interpretation of seismic and gravity data of the Kaapvaal Craton, using results from the international Kaapvaal Project. Sue also runs the highly successful AfricaArray international geophysics field school held annually as part of the Wits Honours geophysics program. This field school hosts selected students from all over Africa and the world. In 2005 she was awarded the Jubilee Medal from the Geological Society of South Africa for the best paper in the South African Journal of Geology. In 2006 her technical presentation at the SEG meeting in New Orleans was cited as one of the top 30 papers. In 2007 she was elected as a Fellow of the GSSA. Sue is active in SEG and SAGA, is currently vice chairman of the SEG Global Affairs Committee, and was a founding committee member for the SEG initiative Geoscientists Without Borders. | | |
