Stanley H. Ward passed away on July 28, 2002 at Harbor View Medical Center in Seattle, WA.
Stan was born in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on Jan. 16, 1923.
Stan served in the Canadian Air Force and Canadian Navy and remained a Canadian Citizen.
He obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Toronto in 1949, 1950 and 1952, respectively.
In the following seven years, he was totally engaged in contract mining geophysics with the McPhar group of companies. In 1959, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley where he started the Engineering Geosciences program. He remained there until he joined the University of Utah in 1970. He served 10 years as Chairman of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah. In 1977 he formed the Earth Science Laboratory of the University of Utah Research Institute. In January of 1989 he "retired" from Utah so that he could orient his activities more towards industry.
His industrial experience and research activities encompassed mining, geothermal, oil and gas, environmental, geotechnical, groundwater and lunar exploration plus ionospheric research. He was best known for his activities, pure and applied, in electromagnetic theory and strategies for exploration. During his ten trips to Australia, his five trips to China and three trips to Brazil, he has assisted in developing applied geoscience programs in those countries.
He was an Honorary Member of SEG and a Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.
After retirement Stan helped develop the environmental engineering program at the University of British Columbia and the special courses program in geotechnical engineering at the University of Arizona.
Stan was preceded in death by his wife Shirley and is survived by his brother, Bob Ward of Tucson Arizona, his sister, Greta King of Mesa, AZ. and one son, Steven Ward.
His greatest pleasures were boating, the Flounder Bay Yacht Club, Merry Guys and Dolls, and his home in Anacortes, WA.
A private memorial will be held in his memory. No Gifts or flowers, please. Donations may be made to the Shrilly A. and Stanley H. Ward fund, SEG Foundation, P.O. Box 702740, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74170-2740.