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XII List of contributors
Freek D. van der Meer, BSc (geology), Free University of Amsterdam, BSc
(geophysics), University of Utrecht, MSc (structural geology), Free University of
Amsterdam, PhD (geology and mineralogy), Wageningen University, began his
professional career as a geophysicist at Delft Geotechnics, processing and interpreting
ground radar survey data. In 1989 he joined the International Institute for Aerospace
Survey and Earth Sciences where he researches algorithm development and geologic
applications of hyperspectral remote sensing. In 1999 he was appointed to the chair of
Imaging Spectrometry at Delft University of Technology.

Oleg F. Putikov, Eng., Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, began his
career in 1961 by joining the Krasnokholmskaja expedition in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to
take part in logging of ore deposits. He then worked for two years on airborne
geophysical surveys with the Western Geophysical Trust, Leningrad. Since 1965 he has
worked at the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute (SPSMI), Russia, where he gave his
attention to the theory of geothermal investigations and subsequently (since 1967) to the
theory and practice of geoelectrochemistry. He is now Professor of Exploration
Geophysics at SPSMI and a Chief Research Scientist in the VIRG-Rudgeofizika Institute
in St. Petersburg. He is an Associate Editor of Russian Geophysical Journal.

David M. Richers, BS, Pennsylvania State University, MS, University of Kentucky, PhD
(geology) University of Kentucky, joined the Basin Studies Group of Cities Service Oil
Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1979 as a petroleum geochemist performing work in
surface prospecting and remote sensing. In 1983 he joined Gulf Research and Development
Company to continue his work on surface methods and in 1985 moved to Marathon Oil
Company to perform further work in surface geochemical methods, remote sensing and
geologic computer applications. In 1990 he became the Assistant Director of Computer
Graphics at Syracuse University and managed the Advanced Graphics Research
Laboratory, developing image processing, GIS, and virtual reality methods for use in the
geologic sciences. Since 1993 he has been a Principal Scientist at the Savannah River
Laboratory, applying geochemical methods to solve geologic and environmental problems.

Ruan Tianjian is a graduate in applied geochemistry, China University of Geosciences,
Wuhan. In the early part of his career he was engaged in education and research in
geochemical exploration for minerals at Beijing College of Geology. Following his
appointment in 1985 as Head of the Department of Geochemistry in the China University
of Geosciences, Wuhan, he has been involved in geochemical exploration for petroleum.

Sun Xiangli is a graduate in geochemistry and began his career as an analyst in the
laboratory of the geophysical prospecting team of the Geology Bureau of Chinese Heavy
Metal Industry in 1957. He has been engineer-in-chief of geochemical exploration since
1960 and engaged in research in exploration techniques and instrument trials since 1974.