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Iain Mason is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and an Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at the University of Sydney. His research interests focus on underground imaging and guided wave propagation. He designed an in-seam seismic coal seam mapping system that received the UK Queen's Award for Technological Innovation in 1988, which played a significant role in halving the number of UK coal longwalls affecting output. Working with David Campbell at ARCO British and Chuck Mosher at ARCO EPRC in 1992, he developed the Fault Proximity Survey system for mapping gas reservoir sealing faults at the base of the Zechstein in the Southern North Sea. His team developed slimline borehole radars, which earned the 1994 British Aerospace Award for Excellence in Engineering Design, and were utilized to map deep nickel sulphide ore bodies in Kambalda, Western Australia. Additionally, these radars were devised as tactical tools to guide workings safely past faults and paleo-stressed areas in deep South African mines. His collaborative work with CSIR Mtek garnered the Outstanding Presentation Award in 1999 at the joint meeting of the South African Geophysical Association and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He has also been involved in various grants related to mining technologies and geophysics research.
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