Advancing earthquake science worldwide
26 November 2025— Throughout the past year, SSA members stepped forward to mentor and teach one another. They raised their voices to advocate for federal support of our science and made generous financial gifts to aid our mission. Together we advanced seismology through: $88,600+ in grants supporting our community’s scientific … Continue Reading »
18 November 2025—SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent has appointed Hongfeng Yang as the first deputy editor-in-chief of its journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL). Yang, a professor in the department of Earth and environmental sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, joined the editorial board of SRL as an associate editor … Continue Reading »
4 November 2025—Bill Curry grew up in Alberta, Canada, in what he calls “the home of the Canadian energy industry,” so the idea of exploring a career in the earth sciences came early to him. “My favorite subjects were math and physics, which drew me to geophysics,” Curry explained. “In … Continue Reading »
An SSA student and early-career member attended a seismology-advancing conference in Kochi, Japan—an experience made possible by donor generosity. 1 November 2025— Baoning Wu never met the late seismologist who inspired SSA’s newest support program, but he knows his research well. One of Paul Spudich’s widely-cited papers is referenced throughout … Continue Reading »
8 October 2025—2025 has been a year of anniversaries for the nuclear monitoring community, some grim and some hopeful. It was 80 years ago that the first nuclear bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it was nearly 30 years ago, in 1996, that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty opened to … Continue Reading »
16 September 2025—For her dissertation, Louisa Barama worked on ways to characterize seismic events like tsunamigenic and deep earthquakes in near real time, using teleseismic data, calculations of radiated earthquake energy and machine learning techniques. “Then I got this opportunity to work on an Air Force Research Lab project [led … Continue Reading »