BIOGRAPHY

Professor Raymond Durrheim held the South African Research Chair in Exploration, Earthquake and Mining Seismology at Wits University from 2007 until his retirement in 2021. He continues to research, teach and consult; leads the DSI-NRF-SAIMI Community of Practice in Knowledge & Skills Development for Oil & Gas Exploration & Production; and participates in the ICDP project Probing the Heart of Earthquakes (PROTEA). Ray chaired the first two SAGA Biennial Conferences (1989, 1991) and was SAGA president in 1995/96. He was awarded SAGA’s Krahmann Medal in 2015 and Meritorious Service Award in 2010 and 2022, and received the NSTF-South32 Lifetime Award in 2021.

Quote: “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – attributed to one of the most famous (geo)physicists of all time, Isaac Newton.

Title keynote (provisional): “SAGA’s Biennial Conferences chronicle geophysical advances and societal impact since 1989”