China Vitae

Biography

Ma Zaitian, male, Han nationality, is a native of Faku, Liaoning Province. He graduated from Leningrad Mining College in 1957.

Ma originated many creative principles and technologies on the reflection seismology method, which played a key role in developing seismic prospecting in China. During the 1950s and 1960s, Ma advanced a series of seismic prospecting methods, including the "seismic reflection standard stratum method," which helped the finding of oil fields in the North China Basin. In the 1970s, as the director of the method and program research office of the most important geophysical computer center, he led and participated in the building of a giant-powered computer data handling system for seismic prospecting in China.

In the 1980s, Ma focused on the study of seismic migration imaging and 3-D seismic prospecting methods and obtained the most important achievements in the study of migration imaging principle and methods. As a result of his efforts, he obtained the National Science and Technology Progress Award and Chen Jiageng Earth Science Award. Later, he undertook the key project of the National Natural Science Fund of "seismic wave spread and wave field imaging", and developed new theories and new technologies in depth migration methods and multiple component seismic data handling.