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My PhD Thesis, PDF 3MB - Stanford University

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />

First, I wish to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Jerry Harris. His<br />

support, inspiration and stimulating advice are major factors for the successful<br />

completion of this dissertation. Jerry is always available for discussions. His physical<br />

insight and numerous interesting ideas makes the discussions fruitful and enjoyable.<br />

Jerry not only emphasizes theoretical research, but also encourages us make efforts to<br />

applied research.<br />

I also wish to express my appreciation to Kiyoshi Yomogida. It was his help that<br />

made my study at <strong>Stanford</strong> <strong>University</strong> possible. Even after Kiyoshi left <strong>Stanford</strong>, he still<br />

gave me many useful suggestions on my work.<br />

Special thanks to Xiaofei Chen of <strong>University</strong> of Southern California, my friend<br />

and college classmate. During last a few years, close cooperation between us led to<br />

several papers published regarding to the borehole wave simulation. Xiaofei provided<br />

extremely valuable help on the development of the wave propagation theory. Nick<br />

Smalley was my office-mate. Daily conversation between us gave the office life much<br />

pleasure. Nick edited many papers of mine. <strong>My</strong> attenuation tomography program was<br />

modified from a velocity tomography code originally written by Feng Yin. Feng gave<br />

me many help on the attenuation work. Thanks to Mark Van Schaack for the work he did<br />

on the computer system management and field data editing.<br />

Dan Moos gave me many suggestions on sonic logging and wave modeling. Dan<br />

very carefully reviewed my dissertation and explained all comments to me in person. I<br />

also would like to thank Norm Sleep and Greg Beroza for reading this thesis. I had many<br />

discussions with Gary Mavko when I started to work on the attenuation project. He gave<br />

many stimulating suggestions.<br />

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