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SSA 2012 Annual Meeting
SSA’s 2012 annual meeting will be held 17–19 April at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, California. The online abstract submission and registration forms for the meeting are now available (the abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, January 11th at 5 PM Pacific time) .
The meeting will provide a stimulating exchange of research on a wide range of topics with colleagues from all over the world. Oral presentations, poster sessions, exhibits, field trips, business meetings and social gatherings all provide participants the opportunity to meet and share with their peers. For further information please visit the meeting home page.
SSA Announces Board of Directors Election Results
The annual election of the Seismological Society of America was held on January 6, 2012. Votes of current members that were received by the deadline, 5 PM on that date, were tabulated and validated by Election America, Inc.… [Read More]
SSA Announces 2011 Student Presentation Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Student Presentation Award. These awards are given for an excellent poster presentation or talk at each Annual Meeting. More information about the student presentation awards and links to the abstracts of the winning presentations are at: http://www.seismosoc.org/awards/student-awards/.
Eastern Section Annual Meeting
The 83rd annual meeting of the Eastern Section of SSA was held 16-18 October 2011 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and included a special session on the recent Mw5.8 Virginia Earthquake. A gallery of photos from the meeting is available here.
SSA 2011 Annual Meeting - Slidecasts Now Available!
SSA’s 2011 Annual Meeting, held in Memphis, April 13-15, featured presentations that are now available to SSA members:
- New Madrid Seismic Zone: Our Understanding on the 200th Anniversary of the New Madrid Earthquake Sequence
- The March 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake
- The February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake
- 2011 Joyner Lecture- “Extreme Ground Motions”
- Just Added as of Sept. 26th– Earthquake Debates
Log into the Member's Area and click on the "Annual Meeting Presentations" box.
Abstracts for all presentations are available online in a searchable database.
SSA Announces New Board President & VP
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade was selected as the SSA President. Christa is the manager of the NOAA National Weather Service Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program in Puerto Rico. She has served as the society's Vice President for the past two years. [Read More]
William (Woody) Savage will serve as SSA Vice President.
Honors Bestowed at Annual Meeting
Awards were given to four of SSA's members at this year's annual meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Tatyana Rautian was awarded the Reid Medal for outstanding contributions to seismology and earthquake engineering. [Read more]
- Hugo Yepes was award the Frank Press Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of public safety or information relating to seismology. [Read more]
- Zhigang Peng was awarded the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award that honors outstanding contributions to the goals of the Society by a member early in his or her career. [Read more]
- Kojiro Irikura was awarded the COSMOS/EERI/SSA Bruce Bolt Medal that recognizes individuals worldwide for accomplishments that involve the promotion and use of strong-motion earthquyake data and whose leadership in the transfer of scientific and engineering knowledge into practice or policy has led to improved seismic safety. [Read more]
