SSA’s public policy activities include educating our members on policy issues that affect the science, issuing resolutions or position statements on seismic matters, and providing information on seismic issues to U.S. legislators and staff, including responding to invitations to provide testimony before congressional committees.
- Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Chair
- John Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
- Rick Aster, Colorado State University
- Susan Bilek, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- Kyren Bogolub, Nevada Seismology Laboratory
- Peggy Hellweg, University of California, Berkeley
- Keith Knudsen, United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- Bill Leith, Seismologist
- Lisa Grant Ludwig, University of California, Irvine
- Zhigang Peng, Georgia Tech, SSA President
- William R. Walter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Deborah Weiser, University of California, Los Angeles
- Mike West, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- Julia Grossman, University of Washington, 2026-27 Fellow