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LICENSE & REGISTRATION

Registered Geologist, State Of California, No. 6463
Registered Geophysicist, State of California, No. 948

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985

M.S., Oceanography, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1980

B.S., Space Science & Mechanical Engineering, Fla. Inst. of Technology, Melbourne, 1973

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1973-76
American Geophysicists Union
Geological Society of America
Seismological Society of America

AWARDS & HONORS:

Adjunct Professor, San Diego State University, Department of Geological Sciences

Visiting Assistant Research Geophysicist, Inst. for Crustal Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Discovered and named active faults in the San Diego geographical area

Participating Scientist with the Southern California Earthquake Center

Awarded EERI/FEMA NEHRP 2002 Professional Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS:

Too numerous to list--over 40 technical reports and papers spanning the fields of earthquake engineering, geology and seismology, exploration seismology, natural hazards and risk analysis, and marine geology and geophysics.

FIELD OF EXPERTISE:

Earthquake hazard analysis of building sites; submarine earthquake risk analysis; volcanic hazards; seismic safety analysis; seismic micronozation mapping; analysis of blast and shock wave propagation; California offshore earthquake analysis; geological engineering; California earthquake history; strike-ship faults; earthquake hazard modeling.

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