Editorial Board of the
Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America

Andrew Michael, Editor. Andy is a geophysicist with the USGS in Menlo Park, California. With a Ph.D. from Stanford University, his research interests center around understanding the seismogenic process in order to improve earthquake probability estimates. Specific work includes seismotectonics, crustal structure, stress, and statistical tests of earthquake prediction methods. He joined BSSA as an Associate Editor in 1997 and became Editor in 2004.

Gail Atkinson, Associate Editor. Gail is a Professor of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa. She received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests are ground motion and seismic hazards, and she has been very active in these fields in both publications and public service (such as building code committees). Gail served on the Board of Directors of SSA for 10 years, including being President of SSA from 2001-2003. She joined the Editorial Board in April 2005.

Julian J. Bommer, Associate Editor. Julian is a Reader in Earthquake Hazard Assessment at Imperial College London, where he was appointed in 1994 after working at the Central American University in El Salvador. He is a civil engineer, with a Master's in geotechnical earthquake engineering, and he obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Seismology in 1991. His research is focused on the characterization and prediction of strong ground motion for engineering design and analysis, as well as for earthquake loss assessment. Julian has carried out field investigations of earthquakes in many countries and is active in consulting on issues related to seismic hazard for engineering, insurance, and energy companies. He joined the Editorial Board in July 2005.

Roland Bürgmann, Associate Editor. Roland received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. He specializes in the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to make geodetic measurements of crustal strain and study Quaternary deformation processes. Such crustal deformation data, together with complementary seismologic and geologic constraints, are used to develop improved mechanical models of the earthquake cycle. Roland joined the Editorial Board in 2000.

Martin Chapman, Associate Editor. Martin has been a network seismologist with the Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, for the past eleven years. His research interests include seismicity of eastern North America, strong motion, hazard assessment, and earthquake prediction. He has served as an Associate Editor for BSSA since March 1995.

Francisco Chávez-García, Associate Editor. Francisco has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ingeniería of UNAM, Mexico's National University, since 1991. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. His research interests include seismic wave propagation in heterogeneous media, strong-motion seismology, and the effects of surface geology on seismic motion. Francisco joined the Editorial Board in October 1998.

Anton Dainty, Associate Editor. Anton is a geophysicist in the Arms Control Technology Division, On-Site Inspection Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since then he has worked at the University of Toronto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (twice), Georgia Institute of Technology, NORSAR, and Phillips Laboratory (U.S. Air Force) before joining DTRA (originally Defense Special Weapons Agency) in 1997. His principal research interests are seismic techniques for monitoring underground nuclear explosions and seismic scattering. He joined BSSA's Editorial Board in 1996.

Diane Doser, Associate Editor. Diane is a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. She came to El Paso in 1986 following one and a half years as a Bantrell postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Utah. Diane's research interests include studies of historical (pre-1963), instrumentally recorded earthquakes, induced seismicity in oil and geothermal fields, and seismic tomography technique. She joined the Editorial Board in January 1996.

Jeanne Hardebeck, Associate Editor. Jeanne received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2001 and is currently a Mendenhall postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Her research interests include seismotectonics, earthquake stress triggering, fault strength, and the state of stress in the Earth's crust. She joined the Editorial Board in May 2002.

Mark Hemphill-Haley, Associate Editor. Mark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He came to HSU after working for Woodward-Clyde Consultants (later to become URS Corporation) for more than a decade. While there, he worked as a senior geologist with the Seismic Hazards group. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. His research interests include paleoseismology and seismotectonics. He is also interested in kinematic description of plate-scale deformation. Mark joined the Editorial Board in July 2005.

Hiroshi Kawase, Associate Editor. Hiroshi is a senior researcher at Ohsaki Research Institute, Inc., a consulting company in Tokyo, Japan. He has been working there since it was founded in 1983. He had been working with K. Aki at USC from 1986 to 1988 on leave from ORI and after coming back he got his doctoral degree from Kyoto University in 1990. His principal research interests are in strong-motion seismology and its engineering applications, in particular, effects of local and regional underground structures on seismic motions and detection of such structures. Hiroshi joined BSSA's Editorial Board in January 1996.

Arthur McGarr, Associate Editor. Art has been a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey for the last eighteen years and is currently the Chief of the Branch of Earthquake Geology and Geophysics. His principal research interests are earthquake source mechanics, strong ground motion, induced seismicity, and the state of stress in the Earth's crust. Art became an Associate Editor of BSSA in January, 1994.

Robert L. Nowack, Associate Editor. Bob is an Associate Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1985. His current research interests include the asymptotic analysis of seismic wavefields, seismic imaging, and tomographic analysis of crustal and upper mantle structure. Nowack's editorial areas include seismic wave propagation and inversion. He joined BSSA as an Associate Editor in August 1995.

Arben Pitarka, Associate Editor. Arben Pitarka is a senior project seismologist at URS Corporation in Pasadena. He joined URS in 1997 after working for nine years in the Academy of Science of Albania. He received his second Ph.D. in Seismology from Kyoto University in 1997. His research interests include development of numerical techniques for modeling wave propagation, ground-motion simulation, and rupture dynamics and their application in strong-ground-motion prediction. He joined the Editorial Board in March 2005.

Jose Pujol, Associate Editor. Jose is an Associate Research Professor at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, the University of Memphis, where he has been for the last ten years. Jose received his Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Wyoming in 1985. His main research interests are in inverse problems as related to earthquake location and velocity inversion, vertical seismic profiling, and reflection seismology. More recently, he began working on the waveform analysis of local and regional earthquakes. Jose became an Associate Editor of BSSA in January 1994.

Charlotte Rowe, Associate Editor. Charlotte is a seismologist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from New Mexico Tech. Prior to her doctoral work she served for seven years as Alaska's Deputy State Seismologist. Her research has focused primarily on investigation of volcano seismology and on the application of signal processing and clustering strategies for better characterization of digital waveform catalogs. She has also investigated glacier seismicity and is currently involved in developing geophysical models for local and regional applications. Charlotte joined the Editorial Board in 2001.

Lorraine W. Wolf, Associate Editor. Lorraine is an Associate Professor at Auburn University, Alabama. She received her Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 1989. Lorraine's research interests include controlled-source seismology, geophysical methods for shallow subsurface investigations, paleoseismology, and hydrologic phenomena related to seismicity. Lorraine joined the Editorial Board in 2002.


 
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