Seismology

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Daniel Trugman honored with Charles F. Richter Early Career Award (EurekAlert)

Trugman's research focuses on developing and applying new techniques to analyze large seismic datasets to better understand earthquake rupture processes and how ...

Richter Early Career Award honors outstanding contributions to the goals of the SSA by a member early in her or his career. This new method for relocating earthquakes has become popular in the seismological community due to its efficiency and user-friendly interface. Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2018 to 2020, he traveled the state of New Mexico on behalf of the lab’s Employee Scholarship Fund, visiting high schools to encourage the pursuit of college degrees and advising scholarship winners on internship opportunities. in geophysics at Stanford University and a 2015 M.S. Wesnousky, in nominating Trugman for the award. Among the topics he has examined in depth are earthquake source properties (including how they differ in induced versus natural earthquakes), earthquake early warning methodologies, and earthquake nucleation and triggering processes.

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Brian L. N. Kennett earns top honor in seismology (EurekAlert)

The Seismological Society of America (SSA) will present its highest honor, the 2023 Harry Fielding Reid Medal, to Brian L. N. Kennett, emeritus professor of ...

in theoretical seismology in 1973 from the University of Cambridge. First awarded in 1975, the Medal recognizes outstanding contributions in seismology and earthquake engineering. Kennett has been active in international seismological organizations, including as president of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI). students and numerous postdocs, and shared critical expertise and experience in publications like his 2014 book Planning and Managing Scientific Research: A Guide for the Beginning Researcher. Kennett has been a visiting scholar at institutions in France, Germany, Japan, Norway and the United States, as well as collaborations with India, Indonesia and South Korea. These large-scale transportable seismic array experiments, including the SKIPPY and WOMBAT deployments, were one of the inspirations for the USArray project in North America.

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