Professor to lecture across globe

Kansas University researcher and administrator Don Steeples plans to deliver a number of lectures across the globe as distinguished lecturer for the Society for Exploration Geophysicists.

Steeples is Dean A. McGee Distinguished Professor of Applied Geophysics and vice provost for scholarly support at KU.

His lecture tour runs from August through the end of 2007. Steeples will deliver lectures on geophysical imaging, a process that can detect everything from drug-smuggling tunnels to earthquake faults.