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Present Position:
Retired.
(Managing Editor,
Exploration Geophysics
c/ School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, 3010)
Personal :
Born: 1941, at Mile End, South Australia.
Married: (1965, to Jan McAnaney); one daughter, one son.
Home address: 16 Curran St, North Melbourne, Victoria 3051, Australia
Contacts:
Home phone: +61-3-9328-1722
Email: lindsayt@unimelb.edu.au
Interests:
Geophysics, education, orienteering, bridge, music.
Academic Background:
I was awarded my PhD in 1968, for studies in the dispersion of seismic surface waves, at the University of Adelaide, South Australia.
My original BSc and BSc (Honours) degrees were also from the University of Adelaide, majoring in Physics and Applied Mathematics.
The chief paper based on my PhD work is "Rayleigh Wave Dispersion in Australia", Seismol. Soc. Am. Bull., 59, 167-182, 1969.
In 1968 I joined The University of Melbourne as lecturer in Geophysics in the Department of Geology (now the School of Earth Sciences), and have continued in that function until retiring at the end of 2001. During that period I have supervised several higher degree students and approximately 60 Honours students, engaged in projects in almost all areas of Geophysics.
Research interests:
During the early 70s I was chiefly interested in the geophysical (mainly gravity) responses of the Newer Volcanics eruption points in Victoria. (See, for example, C.O. McKee and L. Thomas, "Geological interpretation of the gravity anomaly at Mt Porndon volcano, Victoria, Australia", in Volcanism in Australia, R.W. Johnson (ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1976.)
I was also involved with experimental determinations of earth tides (J.F. Langdon and L. Thomas, "Earth-Tide measurements in southeastern Australia", Seismol. Soc. Am. Bull., 64, 457-472, 1974.)
In the late 70s my interest turned to electromagnetic methods and to inversion methods in this area ("Electromagnetic sounding with susceptibility among the model parameters", Geophysics, 42, 92-96, 1977).
In the early 80s I collaborated with other workers at the University of Melbourne and elsewhere, in shallow marine seismic reflection studies in Bass Strait and in the Northern Great Barrier Reef, aimed at the study of recent sediments. Only one publication appeared which included my name as coauthor, despite much involvement, but this was representative (with L.H. Larsen and others: "Field investigations of the threshold of grain motion by ocean waves and currents", in Sedimentary Dynamics of Continental Shelves. C.A. Nittrouer (ed), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1981).
In the late 80s my interest turned back to electromagnetic modelling, both physical and numerical, and more recently has also turned to gravity acquisition and interpretation.
Since retiring in 2001 I have maintained an interest in many aspects of Geophysics, but am not actively engaged in personal research.
Professional Activities:
At the present time I am Managing Editor of the journal Exploration Geophysics, published by the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
I have also carried out a number of consultancies and research projects in collaboration with universities, industry and government authorities, including AGSO, the Geological Survey of Victoria, the Rural Water Commission, MMBW (now Melbourne Water Corporation), SEC, and various mining and oil companies. I have also examined theses for a number of institutions, including Adelaide, ANU, Monash, Curtin, and RMIT Universities, and reviewed proposals for a number of granting authorities including ARC and CAUT.
I have been Head and Deputy Head of the School of Earth Sciences, and until 1996 was a member of the Executive (Treasurer and Company Secretary) of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. I am a member of ASEG, AIP, GSA, SEG, and AIG. I have refereed papers for journals published by several of these societies.
Honours and Awards
ASEG Service Certificate, 1998
ASEG Honorary Membership, 2006
Victorian Orienteering Association Honorary Membership, 2006
Society of Exploration Geophysicists of Japan Distinguished Service Award, 2007
Recent Publications:
Jing, E., and Thomas, L. 3D Mesh Design in time domain electromagnetic modelling. Abstracts, Chinese Geophysical Society Annual Meeting, Beijing, 17-21 August 1994, pp179-180.
Lee, T.J., and Thomas, L. The Transient Electromagnetic Response of a Polarizable Sphere in a Conducting Halfspace. Geophysical Prospecting; 1992; 40, 541-563.
Thomas, Lindsay; Lee, Terry J. Time-domain electromagnetic responses of a polarizable target. Exploration Geophysics (Extended Abstract, refereed); 1988; 19(1/2): 365-367.
Major Report: Thomas, L. Understanding SAMAYA: Final Report on AMIRA Project P350: 1994; (circulation restricted).
