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About: Corporate Members |
Information about SSA's corporate members is below. For additional information click a company's name to visit their website. For more information about Corporate Membership in SSA click
here or telephone SSA Headquarters at (510) 525-5474.
Bechtel Corporation
P.O. Box 193965
San Francisco, CA 94119
Bechtel is one of the world's largest engineering-construction firms. Founded in 1898, Bechtel provides premier technical, management, and directly related services to develop, manage, engineer, build, and operate installations for customers worldwide. Many of the objectives of the Seismological Society of America, such as promoting public safety and showing that it is reasonably practicable and economical to build for security from earthquake damage, are in close accord with Bechtel's vision and values.
Colibrys, Inc.
Kevin E. Speller
12200 Parc Crest Drive
Stafford, TX 77477
Colibrys designs and manufactures high-performance MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) products and offers contract manufacturing services for MEMS devices to customers in the defense, aerospace, telecommunications, life sciences, industrial imaging, and energy industries. Colibrys offers the Si-Flex(TM) line of nano-g accelerometers for various seismic, strong-motion, test/vibration measurement and control, low-frequency structure monitoring, and inertial guidance applications.
Degenkolb Engineers
Natalia Schoek
350 Sansome Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94119
Digital Technology Associates
Bruce Pauly
1330-A Galaxy Way
Concord, CA 94520
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Technical Information Center
URC-URC-SW104, P.O. Box 2189
Houston, TX 77252-2189
Geotech Instruments
Lani Oncescu
10755 Sanden Drive
Dallas, TX 75238-1366
Geotech Instruments was founded in 1936 as an oil exploration company and was reorganized in the early '60's to manufacture earthquake and explosion monitoring equipment. Geotech Instruments manufactures ultralow-noise short-period and broadband seismometers, 24-bit digitizers, portable and strong-motion recorders, seismological networks, CTBT infrasound arrays and Auxiliary seismic stations, Early Warning Systems, and complete support software. Geotech Instruments also provides seismic network design, as well as installation and training services.
Kinemetrics, Inc.
Ogie Kuraica
222 Vista Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91107
When OYO Corporation purchased Kinemetrics, Inc. in May 1991, it acquired a relatively small but powerful company with an impressive history. With fewer than 70 employees worldwide, Kinemetrics is the global leader in earthquake instrumentation solutions and a major player in the field of earthquake research. The equipment it produces provides data and information to scientists and engineers who are involved in making our world a safer place to live. Some of Kinemetrics' instruments are used to monitor the seismic safety of many of the world's wonders, including India's Taj Mahal, Greece's Parthenon, Egypt's Sphinx, and famous structures in the U.S. such as New York's Statue of Liberty and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Nanometrics, Inc.
Neil Spriggs
250 Herzberg Road
Kanata, Ontario
Canada K2K 2A1
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Lloyd S. Cluff, Geosciences Department
245 Market Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest investor-owned gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. PG&E's infrastructure includes 131,000 miles of electric lines and 43,000 miles of gas pipelines. There are 18,400 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business -- the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 13 million people throughout northern and central California, a region of moderate to high earthquake activity. PG&E provides strong leadership toward improving seismic safety throughout its service territory.
Puerto Rico Strong Motion Program
P.O. Box 9041
Mayagüez, PR 00681
The Puerto Rico Strong Motion Program (PRSMP) is under the Civil Engineering & Surveying Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. The program began in the mid-1970's with the installation of eight free-field stations and an instrumented building on the island. Today Puerto Rico is one of the most seismically instrumented regions in the world. The main objective of the program is to minimize fatalities and economic losses on the island due to earthquakes. This is done by determining the acceleration records for which buildings should be designed, supporting related research, supporting the Puerto Rico Seismic Network with real-time strong-motion data, and supporting emergency agencies.
Refraction Technology, Inc.
1600 Tenth Street, Suite A
Plano, TX 75074
Risk Engineering, Inc.
Robin K. McGuire
4155 Darley Avenue, Suite A
Boulder, CO 80305
Risk Engineering, Inc. was formed in 1984 to provide consulting services in probability and statistical analyses on earthquake problems. REI's range of consulting services includes earthquake hazard and risk analysis to major facilities, risk analysis for portfolios of properties, hazard evaluation for regions to assist in risk reduction, ground-motion estimation, probabilistic performance evaluations, and integration of risks to facilities from earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, climate changes, human activities, and unknown geologic conditions. In addition to its consulting and research services, Risk Engineering, Inc. provides software and databases for the estimation of earthquake hazard and loss. REI's software products are currently being used by more than 100 institutions in engineering, insurance, risk management, government, and research.
URS Corporation
John Bischoff
1333 Broadway Suite 800
Oakland, CA 94612
URS Corporation is one of the leading engineering firms in the U.S., with a professional staff of approximately 26,000 employees in more than 20 countries. URS, which is comprised of the past well known engineering firms of Woodward-Clyde, Dames & Moore, and John Blume and Associates, is a leader in the fields of seismology, seismic geology, and geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering. The firm has conducted seismic hazard evaluations and developed seismic design parameters for many tens of thousands of important and critical facilities worldwide. Basic applied research has been a focus of URS Earth scientists and engineers, who have received numerous grants from the USGS, NSF, DOE, and DOD. Some of our professionals have pioneered the development of field, analytical, and computational techniques used in the earthquake profession.
Last Update: 07 April 2007