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Prof. Musa Manzi Receiving the African Award for Excellence in Earth Science

Prof. Musa Manzi - African Award for Excellence

American Geophysical Union award pays special tribute to outstanding contributors to the advancement of Earth and space sciences.

Dr Musa Manzi, senior researcher at the Wits School of Geosciences, has won the Africa Award for Research Excellence in Earth and Ocean Science, in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Honours Programme.

Manzi, whose internationally ground-breaking work on 3D seismic reflection data from the Wits Basin has opened up new ways of understanding, among other things, the location of methane gas along underground faults, improving safety, resource evaluation and facilitating economic growth, was recognised for “completing significant work that shows the focus and promise of making outstanding contributions to research in Earth and Space sciences”.

Manzi was nominated jointly by geophysicists from Princeton, MIT and Wits, and will receive his award at the annual Honours Ceremony and Banquet on 14 December at the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

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