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He began to research gas geochemical surveys for mineral exploration in 1978 and has
worked on geological techniques for metallic ore, petroleum and natural gas exploration
since 1987. He is a member of the Chinese Society of Metals and has been a member of
the 1st and 2nd Geological Society of China Commissions on Geochemical Exploration.

Wen Baihong has BEng. and MEng. degrees in exploration geophysics from Central
South University of Technology (CSUT), China, and a PhD in geology and mineralogy
from St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, Russia. Between 1987 and 1994 he
researched exploration for mineral resources by means of magnetic, gravity and
geoelectrical studies at CSUT. From 1994 he tumed his attention to geoelectrochemistry
and carried out experimental studies and physico-mathematical modelling in Russia and
in China. He now applies geoelectrochemical techniques to hydrocarbon exploration for
the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

John R. Wilmshurst, Dip RMIT, BSc, PhD, University of Melbourne, commenced work on
exploration methods for base and precious metals within the CSIRO Division of Mineral
Chemistry at North Ryde in 1972. His particular interest was the weathering of
metalliferous minerals and he was involved with developing and applying an in-house
mercury detector for base-metal and precious-metal exploration. He is presently working in
the CSIRO Division of Petroleum Resources, developing tools for source-rock maturity
estimation.

Yang Hong, BSc (geography), Peking University, began work at the Institute of Remote
Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a research assistant. Her work
focused on detecting hydrocarbon microseeps in the Tarim and Junggar Basins using
remote sensing techniques. In 1995, she obtained her MSc in structural geology at the
Intemational Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, the Netherlands, where
she subsequently carried out her PhD research in using imaging spectrometer data to
detect hydrocarbon microseepage. This research received the Merit Award of the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1997. She is now a remote sensing
specialist at Shell International in the Netherlands.

Zhang Jianzhong, BSc, MSc (geography), Peking University, began his career as a
research assistant at the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, using image processing for detecting hydrocarbon microseeps. In 1996, he
obtained a second MSc at the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth
Sciences, the Netherlands, on the applications of shortwave infrared spectra of rocks to
areas in China affected by coal fires. He now specialises in aerospace image processing
and GIS applications at the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications.