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First Class of UH Petroleum Geophysics Grads at University of Cape Town

Caption: The first group of University of Houston graduates with master's degrees in petroleum geophysics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa pause for a group photo with (centered left to right) John F. Casey, chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UH, George Smith, a senior lecturer in applied geophysics at UCT, John Bear, dean of the UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of professional geoscience programs at UH.

Credit: Photo courtesy of Katherine Traut, University of Cape Town

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