Editorial Board of the
Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America
(as of August 2010)
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Diane I. Doser 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 of BSSA in January 1996 and became Editor-in-Chief in 2010.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Gail M. Atkinson is a professor of geophysics at University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Earthquake Hazards and Ground Motions. She received her Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Western Ontario. She is active in the fields of earthquake hazards and ground motions in both publications and public service, including service on building code committees. Gail served on the board of directors of SSA for 10 years, including being president of SSA from 2001 to 2003. She joined the editorial board of BSSA in April 2005.
Jack W. Baker is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from Stanford University in 2005. His research has focused on probabilistic modeling of seismic hazards, improved characterization of earthquake ground motions, dynamic analysis of nonlinear structures, prediction of the spatial extent of soil failures from earthquakes, and modeling loads on spatially distributed infrastructure systems. He has industry experience in seismic-hazard assessment, ground-motion selection, construction management, and modeling of catastrophe losses for insurance companies. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in December 2008.
Kelvin Berryman is a principal scientist at GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He completed graduate studies and his Ph.D. at Victoria University of Wellington and has been at GNS Science and its predecessor organizations (NZ Geological Survey and DSIR) since 1974. His research interests include earthquake geology/paleoseismology/tectonic geomorphology, probabilistic hazard analysis of earthquake and tsunami, and landscape evolution. He has also published on aspects of Quaternary geology such as loess and tephra studies. Kelvin joined the editorial board of BSSA in May 2008.
Michel Bouchon is a scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France and at the University of Grenoble. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1976 under the supervision of Keiiti Aki. He has been closely associated for many years with the Earth Resources Laboratory of MIT. His research interests are primarily in seismic-wave propagation and earthquake-source studies, with particular emphasis on seismic exploration, site effects, strong ground motion, and earthquake rupture.
Yousef Bozorgnia is associate director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research experience is in earthquake engineering, engineering characterization of ground motion, ground-motion prediction equations, hazard analysis, and structural earthquake engineering. He has been a consultant on various earthquake engineering projects in the United States and has investigated damage in major worldwide earthquakes. Yousef joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2007.
Roland Bürgmann is a professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993. 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 of BSSA in 2000.
Eric Chael is a seismologist in the Ground-Based Monitoring department at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1983. At Sandia, he has worked primarily on seismic monitoring of underground explosions. His research interests have included seismic source spectra, event identification methods, and automated waveform analysis. Eric joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2010.
Martin C. Chapman is a research associate professor with the Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg,Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 1998. His research interests include seismicity of eastern North America, strong motion, and hazard assessment. He has served as an associate editor for BSSA since March 1995.
Anton M. Dainty is a geophysicist in the Threat Detection Section, Battlespace Environment Division, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). 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, Phillips Laboratory (U.S. Air Force), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency before joining AFRL in 2003. His principal research interests are seismic techniques for monitoring underground nuclear explosions and seismic scattering. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 1996.
Heather DeShon is an assistant research professor at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information and Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2004. Her research interests include seismogenic zone processes in subduction and intraplate settings, earthquake generation within subduction zones, and volcano seismology. Her research utilizes earthquake relocation, seismic tomography, and waveform cross-correlation techniques. Heather joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2009.
Jeanne Hardebeck is a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. She received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2001. 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 of BSSA in May 2002.
Hiroshi Kawase is a professor in Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University. He was a professor at Kyushu University for about ten years, after eighteen years of service at Ohsaki Research Institute, Inc., a consulting company in Tokyo, Japan. He worked with K. Aki at USC from 1986 to 1988 for irregular soil amplification studies. His principal research interests are in strong-motion seismology and its engineering applications, in particular, quantitative prediction of strong motions and urban seismic-hazard evaluation. Hiroshi joined the editorial board of BSSA in January 1996.
Yann Klinger is a scientist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Strasbourg, under supervision of L. Dorbath and J. P. Avouac. He joined CNRS in 2001 after completing a postdoc at Caltech. His interest is focused on how faults accommodate deformation through the earthquake cycle, and his expertise is in paleoseismology, seismo-tectonics, and active tectonics. Yann joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2010.
Keith D. Koper is an associate professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Saint Louis University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Washington University in St. Louis. Keith's primary research interests are explosion seismology, deep Earth structure, and array seismology. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2004.
Arthur McGarr has been a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey for the last 32 years (and is currently Chief of the Branch of Earthquake Geology and Geophysics). His principal research interests are earthquake source mechanics, strong ground motion, induced seismicity, and how to relate laboratory friction experiments to the source processes of natural earthquakes. Art became an associate editor in January 1994.
Andrew J. Michael is a geophysicist with the USGS in Menlo Park, California. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. 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 served as editor-in-chief from 2004 until June 2010.
David Oglesby is an associate professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. He obtained his Ph.D. in geological sciences at UC Santa Barbara in 1999 and then spent one year as a postdoc at San Diego State University before coming to UCR in the Fall of 2000. His specialty is earthquake source dynamics, and he is particularly interested in the effects of fault geometry, frictional processes, and stress heterogeneity on earthquake rupture, slip, and ground motion.
Morgan Page is a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2007. Her research interests include earthquake source inversions, statistical seismology, and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Morgan joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2010.
Stefano Parolai is a senior researcher at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. He received a Ph.D. in geophysics from University of Genova in 1997. His research interests include the effects of surface geology on seismic motion, strong-motion data analysis, source parameters, and application of signal processing with focus on borehole data. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2009.
Zhigang Peng is an assistant professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2004. His primary research interest is earthquake seismology, which includes fault zone structures, seismicity patterns, earthquake triggering, tremor, and slow earthquakes. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2010.
Arben Pitarka is a principal scientist with BAE Systems, Florida. Before joining BAE, he worked as senior project seismologist for QTSI, Florida, and URS, Pasadena, for more than fourteen years, and as senior seismologist in the Academy of Science of Albania. He received his first Ph.D. in engineering seismology at the University of Tirana, Albania, and 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 and seismic scattering. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in March 2005.
Fred F. Pollitz is a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989. His research interests include crustal deformation (as constrained by geodetic measurements) and seismic tomography. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in February 2001.
Jose Pujol is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis. He 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. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 1994.
Charlotte Rowe 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 of BSSA in 2001.
Brian Sherrod is a research geologist with the USGS in Seattle, Washington, and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research interests focus on paleoseismology and neotectonics. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2008.
Samik Sil is a geophysicist for the seismic analysis group of ConocoPhillips in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interests include seismic anisotropy, earthquake hydrology, and tectonic geodesy. His current work involves fracture characterization with active and passive seismic methods. Samik joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2010.
Peter J. Stafford is a lecturer in the Structures Section of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, where he was appointed in 2007 following a period as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand after completing research into probabilistic seismic-hazard analysis and engineering seismology. Peter also has professional experience in both structural and geotechnical engineering. His current research interests relate primarily to the specification of earthquake actions for hazard and risk assessment applications, with a particular focus upon the development of earthquake loss estimation methodologies.
Cezar I. Trifu was a researcher with National Institute for Earth Physics in Romania before moving in 1992 to Queen’s University in Canada. In 1993 he cofounded Engineering Seismology Group, Inc., and he serves as Director of Mining and Geotechnical Services. He is also adjunct professor with the Department of Mining Engineering at Queen’s University and guest professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at Xiamen University in China. His expertise is in seismic source, induced seismicity and use of passive seismic monitoring techniques to various geotechnical applications. Cezar joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2000.
Stefan Wiemer is a professor of earth science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and head of the statistical seismology section of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED). He joined the SED in 1999, after a stay as a postdoc in Japan. Stefan received his Ph.D. from the University of Alaska in 1996. His research interests include statistical seismology, seismic hazard and risk assessment, and volcano seismology. Stefan joined the editorial board of BSSA in 2004.
Ivan G. Wong is a principal seismologist, vice-president, and manager of the Seismic Hazards Group of URS Corporation. For the past 32 years, he has evaluated the seismic hazards of more than 300 important and critical facilities worldwide. He serves as a consultant to several federal and state government agencies. Ivan's research interests focus on areas relevant to seismic hazard and risk assessment including seismotectonics, paleoseismology, strong-motion seismology, and site-response modeling. Earthquake-hazard reduction and public outreach are also areas of Ivan's interest. He is an active member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and served on its editorial board. Ivan joined the editorial board of BSSA in 1999.
Cleat P. Zeiler is a geophysicist currently working with the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Technical Applications Center located at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. He received his Ph.D. in geological sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. His current work emphasizes nuclear treaty monitoring in support of negotiated treaties. Cleat's experience ranges from velocity modeling in western Montana, magnitude calibration, source discrimination, picking error, and signal reliability. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in July 2010.
ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTS EDITOR
Kim B. Olsen is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at San Diego State University, San Diego, California. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. His expertise is in simulation of ground motions and in earthquake rupture dynamics and high-performance computing. He joined the editorial board of BSSA in 1997.