John Vidale - CV

 

Positions held :

PNSN Director, UW Prof & WA State Seismologist,  2006 - now

IGPP-UCLA Interim Director,  2003 - 2006

IGPP-UCLA Acting Director,  2002 - 2003

UC Los Angeles Professor,  1999 - 2006

IGPP CPCP Branch Head,  2000 - 2002

UC Los Angeles Associate Professor,  1995 - 1999

USGS, Menlo Park Geophysicist,  1991 - 1995

UC Santa Cruz Asst. Researcher,  1987 - 1990


School :

Caltech, PhD in seismology, 1981 - 1986

Yale, BSs in Physics and Geology, 1977 - 1981

Los Alamos, NM HS, 1975 - 1977

Walter Johnson HS, MD, 1974 - 1975

African Road JHS, NY, 1971-1974

Vestal Hill ES, NY, 1968 - 1971

St. Thomas ES, CT, 1966 - 1968

Spring Glen ES, CT, 1965 - 1966

Yale Hospital Pre-school, CT, 1964 - 1965


Honors:

Outstanding Researcher, UW College of the Env., 2011

Gutenberg Lecturer, 2009 Fall AGU Meeting

Gilbert Fellow of USGS, 1995

AGU Fellow, 1994

Macelwane Medal, 1994

Centennial Lecturer, University of Tulsa, 1994

National Science Foundation Fellow, 1982 - 1985

Gutenburg Fellow, Caltech, 1981

Two-time winner of NM math contest, 1976 & 1977

Won chess tournament in Ms Bartelotti’s 4rd-grade class


Editorial service:

Search Committees for JGR-Solid Earth Editor, 1995 - 1996, 2000

Associate Editor, JGR-Solid Earth, 1997 - 2000

Associate Editor, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 1988 - 1993


Service:

National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, 2009 - 2016

PNW-ANSS Regional Co-ordinator, 2006 - now

SCEC Advisory Committee, 2010 - now

Washington State Seismic Safety Committee, 2006 - now

NEPEC Panel to check out New Madrid hazard estimation, Chair, 2011

NSF Amphibious Array Steering Committee, 2010 - 2011

SAFOD AC, Chair, 2009 - 2010

IRIS Planning Committee, 2006 - 2009

Seismology Disciplinary Group leader, SCEC, 2002 - 2006

Chair, Southern Cal. Earthquake Data Center Advisory Cmt, 2003 - 2006

SSA Early Career Award subcommittee chair, 2004

President, Seismology Section of AGU, 2002 - 2004

Fellow Selection Committee, AGU, 2000 - 2002

Committee on Seismology, NRC/NAS, 1996 - 2002

Helped choose seating fabrics for ESS seminar room remodel, 2000

Executive Committee, IRIS, 1998 - 2000

SCIGN Coordinating Committee, 1998 - 1999


Proposal panels:

NSF Geophysics Panel, 2002 - 2004

IGPP/LLNL Geophysics proposal evaluation committee, 1988,91,93,95, and 2001

Southern California region USGS external review panel, 1994,5,7,8,9, and 2001

Regional networks USGS external review panel, 1994

Earthquake Hazards USGS internal review panel, 1993

NSF-USGS NEHRP Loma Prieta proposal evaluation committee, 1989


Meeting organization:

Chair, PNSN Earthquake Early Warning Workshop, Feb 2013, UW

Co-chair, Seafloor geodesy for Cascadia subduction zone workshop, June, 2012

Co-chair, Earthquake Early Warning Summit, Berkeley, CA, April 4-5 2011

Co-convener, NSF Workshop on Spectrum of Faulting, Portland, Oct. 2010

Seismology Section Chairman, Fall AGU meeting , 1992 & 1993, 2008

Co-Chair, IRIS Annual Meetings, 2008 and 1999

Co-convener, SCEC Workshop on Advances in EQ Science, Caltech, Oct. 2003

Chair, The interior of the Earth, Gordon conference, July 2001

Chair, Workshop on USArray design for deep Earth studies, San Diego, May 2001

Co-convener, NSF Workshop on earthquake nucleation, Kyoto, Nov. 2000

Convener, SCEC Workshop on fault-zone guided waves, UCLA, Nov. 1998

Vice-chair, The interior of the Earth, Gordon conference, July 1998

Silly dad