Shanti Rajagopalan 25 December 1960, Coimbatore, India - 7 May 2010, Melbourne, Australia

摘要

Dr Shanti Rajagopalan was one of the best known and respected members of the ASEG. She was also one of the most all round talented members whether it be straight geophysics, her grasp of mathematics, her bursts of originality or the bubbling personality and sense of fun which delighted all who knew her. In addition Shanti had a wide range of experience. She had been a visiting research fellow at the prestigious National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad; she was a lecturer in the University of Adelaide; she worked for a short while with the airborne survey unit of the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR, now Geoscience Australia); she spent four years working for CRA/Rio Tinto in exploration geophysics working in Australia and South East Asia; and then as an independent consultant with her own company Earth Geobytes, she was a member of the BHP Billiton team which interpreted the results obtained by the revolutionary Falcon airborne gravity gradiometer unit. Wherever she worked she left her mark of fresh ideas and improved processing and interpretation procedures.