Keeva Vozoff richly deserves the honor bestowed upon him by this award. He has been an Active Member of the Society for the past 35 years and has served the SEG and its sister organization, the Australian SEG by being President of the ASEG 1976-77, being on the Publications Committee of the SEG since 1981 and serving as a Representative-at-Large from 1981 to 1984.
     The award is in recognition of his "scientific contributions to electrical methods in petroleum and minerals exploration, service to the profession of exploration geophysics in several countries, and particularly his leadership in research and postgraduate teaching of geophysics in Australia." Of the 79 Honorary Membership awards since 1930 this is the first to be granted to a resident of Australia, which is a measure of Keeva's standing in that community where there are presently more than 2,000 geophysicists.
     Keeva graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in physics in 1949, from Penn State University with an M.S. in geophysics in 1951, and from MIT with a Ph.D. in geophysics in 1956. A fellow graduate student at MIT and a recipient of this award, Sven Treitel, recalls Keeva's all-night battle with the Whirlwind computer there which, in those days, had a mere 2K of memory. Keeva emerged victorious as the first person to program it with the Haskell-Thompson method of velocity calculation.
     During World War II he worked for the U.S. Navy in its airborne electronics section. In industry he has worked for Phelps Dodge Corporation, McPhar Geophysics, and Geoscience Incorporated, where he was a senior vice president and director. He has also been extensively involved in teaching and academic pursuits first as associate professor of geophysics at the University of Alberta 1958-64, and now as professor of geophysics at Macquarie University in Sydney, a position he has held since 1972.
     Since 1981, Keeva has been the founding director for the Centre of Geophysical Exploration Research at Macquarie. I think this is his greatest achievement to date and exemplifies the leadership role referred to by the Awards Committee. The CGER has proved to be an outstanding success from its beginning when such a center of research activity in universities was a new endeavor in Australia. Currently it includes postgraduate studies in tomography, in-seam seismology, numerical modeling, EM inversion, and seismic processing, and includes visiting scholars from China, India, Germany, and Canada. In such ways, Keeva's drive and enthusiasm has brought an unparalleled enrichment to the practice of geophysics in Australia.
     Keeva's own research interests range throughout the entire electrical geophysical area including EM and IP, but more especially magnetotellurics and tellurics in which he has published papers since 1963. In all he has 45 publications, of which 10 appear in Geophysics and three in Geophysical Prospecting. Others are in such prestigious journals as the Journal of Geophysical Research and the Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Some of the more notable of these publications include a chapter on electromagnetic methods in applied geophysics in Geophysical Surveys, and another on mining exploration with natural electromagnetic fields in Mining and Groundwater Geophysics in 1967, written jointly with David Strangway, yet another recipient of this Honorary Membership Award. Keeva is a joint editor of the Russian translation of the SEG book on magnetotellurics in oil exploration and is editor of Geophysics Reprint Series No. 5 on magnetotelluric methods.
     Keeva's international interests are exemplified by his serving on ad hoc committees on Soviet-Australia and Indo-Australia scientific and technical cooperation from 1974 to 1975, and being an honorary fellow of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists in India. In 1978 he initiated the Australian version of COCORP.
     A general impression I have of Keeva, is a brilliant professional constantly striving to promote the cause of geophysics in both the academic and commercial worlds. Keeva, of course, is not an Australian by birth but has been a resident in the country now for 13 years. During this time he has never pretended to be someone other than one of the locals and in this way he has endeared himself to his colleagues and his associates. He has been married since 1957 to charming and equally endearing, Elizabeth. His love of children is evidenced by his being the proud father of four.
     Nominating me to write this citation, I suspect, is just another example of his mischief. No one is more deserving of this award than is Keeva.

     Roger Henderson