Gail Atkinson was the Joyner Lecturer for 2007. She is Professor of Geophysics at University of Western Ontario and has spent much of her career working at the engineering-seismology interface. She has authored more than 100 research articles on the subjects of earthquake ground motions and seismic hazards; among these are well-known prediction equations for ground-motion amplitudes as a function of magnitude and distance that have been used in national seismic hazard maps for both the United States and Canada. She is a past president of SSA and served as Chair of the SSA Eastern Section. Her Joyner lecture was entitled “Earthquake ground motions: The Myths and the Mysteries.”
Gail Atkinson
William B. Joyner Memorial Lectures | 2007 Recipient