Biographical Sketch: Francis Muir graduated from Oxford in 1950 with an MA degree in Mathematics. He worked as a research and field exploration seismologist with Seismograph Service from 1954 through 1962, and then with West Australian Petroleum as a field supervisor until 1967. He then transferred to Chevron Oilfield Research Company which he left in 1983 as Senior Research Associate. Since then he has held an appointment as Consulting Professor in the Geophysics Department at Stanford, first with Jon Claerbout's SEP group and more recently with Amos Nur's SRB Project. He consults with industry, particularly on applications of velocity anisotropy to oilfield development, and is a co-investigator on a Project on Anisotropy for the DOE. He is a member of the SEG Research Committee, an erstwhile Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and an active participant in the Web-based "anisotropists" list.

Work in Progress: An effective medium theory.
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
SRB Home Page.
Geophysics Home Page.
Home Page for ACTI Project on Transversely Isotropic Sediments.
An Austenitic Arboretum