Reginald Fessenden Award for Xianhuai Zhu

摘要

It is most appropriate for SEG to recognize Xianhuai Zhu with the Reginald Fessenden Award for his pioneering work on turning-ray tomography. Modeling the near-surface in exploration seismology has been a challenge to us all. The works of Xianhuai Zhu and Jie Zhang have indeed made possible the practical applications of turning-ray tomography and nonlinear tomography, respectively, to estimate near-surface models to correct for the deleterious effect of the complex near surface more accurately than any other method to date.