Advancing Earthquake Science Worldwide

2020 Annual Awards Ceremony

28 APRIL • ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO Message from the President Celebrating Growth and New Opportunities

SSA Board Today SSA presents its highest honors— offerings this fall. Through our advocacy work, the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, including new briefings on Capitol Hill, Frank Press Public Service Award and the Society is reminding U.S. policymakers why Officers Harry Fielding Reid Medal—to Marine Denolle, your work makes a difference and needs ongoing Brian Tucker and Karen Fischer. federal support. Susan Hough, President William R. Walter, President-Elect These members have done exemplary work in The past year has been one of growth and new Peter Shearer, Past President support of the Society’s mission—advancing opportunities for SSA, and the reason is you. earthquake science for the benefit of society. Their Peggy Hellweg, Secretary As we celebrate our esteemed colleagues today, outstanding accomplishments offer inspiration Mitch Withers, Treasurer I’d like to offer thanks to every member for their to our entire community. They remind us all to continued commitment to our mission. Thank you continue pushing the boundaries of knowledge. for your volunteer work, for your research and for Board of Directors As you continue to push those boundaries, know your career advice to members at the start of their Sergio Barrientos (2020) that SSA is here to help. careers. On page 20 we also offer our deepest gratitude for your generous gifts that have helped Margaret Boettcher (2021) The report that follows in these pages highlights the us once again to advance our science and protect Xyoli Pérez-Campos (2021) newest pathways to professional support that SSA public safety. Heather DeShon (2022) now provides to our growing community. Doug Dreger (2021) It has been an honor to serve as your president. SSA has just expanded its Global Travel Grant Christine Goulet (2020) program, which now helps both student and early- Kuo-Fong Ma (2022) career members exchange information with their Meghan S. Miller (2022) peers near and far. A redesign of our two journals Kate Scharer (2020) is bringing more seismic information to readers, Susan Hough John Townend (2022) with more specialization and new ways to share President knowledge. We’re looking forward to exchanging new ideas at a brand new, topical SSA meeting, on seismic tomography, that we’ve added to our

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Marine Denolle Brian Tucker Karen Fischer Assistant Professor, Founder, GeoHazards Professor, Brown University Harvard University International HARRY FIELDING CHARLES F. RICHTER FRANK PRESS PUBLIC REID MEDAL EARLY CAREER AWARD SERVICE AWARD This award honors outstanding This award honors outstanding contributions to This award honors outstanding contributions to the contributions in seismology or earthquake engineering. the goals of the Society by a member early in her or advancement of public safety or public information his career. relating to seismology. SSA honors Karen Fischer with the Harry Fielding Reid Medal for her pioneering research on Earth’s upper SSA honors Marine Denolle with the Charles F. SSA honors Brian Tucker with the Frank Press mantle structure and dynamics, the structure and Richter Early Career Award for her important Public Service Award for his efforts to make evolution of continental lithosphere, and the dynamics contributions to developing synthetic seismograms the world’s most vulnerable communities safer of subduction systems. that can be used for ground motion predictions for from earthquakes and other natural hazards. His future earthquakes, with particular applications to nonprofit GeoHazards International, with local and She conducted groundbreaking research on the boundary how seismic waves behave in sedimentary basins. international partners, has developed earthquake between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere. scenarios and seismic safety action plans, She is widely recognized for her contributions to Her paper published in the journal Science in 2014 retrofitted schools, improved the seismic safety characterizing seismic anisotropy which have helped to described how she deployed instruments along of hospitals, mapped landslide hazards, designed identify and analyze patterns of mantle flow beneath the San Andreas Fault in the San Gorgonio Pass in and promoted vertical tsunami evacuation parks, continents and in subduction zones, where one tectonic California, to test whether sedimentary basins near and initiated the local manufacture of “School plate moves underneath another. Her work in subduction San Bernardino might funnel seismic energy from Earthquake Desks.” zones has established evidence for three-dimensional the San Andreas Fault into the Los Angeles basin. asthenospheric flow. Her conclusion, that the Los Angeles metro area “While many of us in the seismological community could be threatened by this type of ground motion, can justifiably claim that the science and products Fischer is “an outstanding seismologist who has conducted informed the U.S. Geological Survey seismic we’ve produced will lead to safer cities and many observational and modeling studies of the Earth’s resilience plan with Los Angeles. potentially save lives or reduce other losses over seismic structure, illuminating dynamic mantle-flow the long-term, few can point to specific cases where processes in subduction zones, near the core-mantle The study, among others, shows that Denolle is an communities have benefitted directly from our boundary, and at the base and within the continental exceptional seismologist due to her grasp of the efforts; Brian Tucker can,” said seismologist David lithosphere,” said Professor Donald W. Forsyth, who entire scientific process, her colleagues said in their Wald in nominating Tucker for the award. nominated Fischer for the medal. nominations of Denolle for the award. ➜ To learn more about the The Joyner Fund provides the financial support for the nominating process, visit Richter honorarium. seismosoc.org/awards Photo: © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission MacArthur Foundation- T. and Catherine D. Photo: © John

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Julian J. Bommer Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London

WILLIAM B. JOYNER MEMORIAL LECTURE Julian J. Bommer has worked for more than 30 years at the interface between seismology and earthquake engineering as both a researcher and practitioner.

His Joyner lecture, delivered at the 2020 SSA Annual Meeting, focuses on the impact of small- magnitude earthquakes, of both tectonic and anthropogenic origin, on the built environment and how the risk associated with such events can be quantified and mitigated.

Awarded by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and SSA, the lectureship honors William B. Joyner’s career at the U.S. Geological Survey and his commitment to continuing communication and education at the interface between research findings of earthquake science and the practical realities of earthquake engineering.

6 Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony 7 Growing Stronger Together More Time with Your Colleagues At SSA we’ve always known that face-to-face communication advances science. Our members proved it once again at the 2019 Annual Meeting.

Last year, our community of scientists and engineers gathered in Seattle to exchange seismic The 2019-2020 year has been knowledge. They asked and answered one another’s research questions. They offered and received one of new opportunities for the The intimate setting in which SSA community. career advice. Together, they explored the very future of seismology. to discuss my research and hear about other investigations and Our Society has grown in size and expanded SSA continues to welcome an increasing number experiments from other scientists our reach. We’ve added a new meeting and of attendees to our annual gatherings—24 was so valuable.” new content to our peer-reviewed journals. percent more in the past year alone. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we also welcomed —ISABEL HONG, Ph.D. candidate at We’ve found new ways to tell the world why a record 21 travel grant recipients to the 2019 Rutgers University and 2019 Annual Meeting meeting. All attendees, whether it was their first or seismology matters. Travel Grant recipient 21st meeting, had the opportunity to learn about During the past year SSA has provided emerging tools and technologies in an expanded array of workshops and special interest groups led members with a record number of travel by their colleagues. grants to attend meetings focused on our science—our Annual Meeting as well as Our time together is incredibly valuable—for networking, for collaborating and for learning. others hosted by organizations around We don’t want anyone to have to miss an the globe. opportunity to connect with their peers, so we’ve Global Travel Grant Recipient Waheed G. Akande added a childcare option to our 2020 Annual (University of Aberdeen) at left receiving a Meeting. We’ve also created more opportunities for We’re helping our scientists and engineers souvenir from Co-Chair Farokh Parsizadeh at the members to meet and share their work with one exchange more seismic knowledge than 8th International Conference of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Tehran, Iran. another. Abstracts just opened for an additional SSA ever before. Together we’re creating more meeting, “Seismic Tomography: What Comes Next?” opportunities to protect public safety and (9–11 October 2020 in Toronto, Ontario). advance earthquake science worldwide. Conference attendees showcase and discuss their research during the conference.

8 Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony 9 Meetings Matter More Support for the Next Generation When a change in policy at We want to do all we can to support our student and the U.S. Geological Survey early-career members—the scientists and engineers who (USGS) restricted attendance will create the future of earthquake science. by its scientists at large How can we support their research? Connect them with scientific conferences, SSA their dream jobs? Help them share their knowledge with raised its collective voice in the wider scientific community? protest. We surveyed our These are a few of the questions we continue to ask the My first scientific talk as a members and publicized their members of our community who are just beginning their student was at the 2008 SSA concerns. work in seismology. In recent months SSA has conducted Meeting in Santa Fe, and I surveys and established an Early-Career and Student was immediately welcomed THE GOAL Remind the Advisory Task Force. Comprised of students and others ▶ at the start of their careers (including four past Richter in and introduced to some USGS that we host the world’s Awardees), the group is exploring the networking and of the great seismological primary technical conference mentoring needs of these members and how we might minds; I was floored that on seismology, a necessary assist them with the professional pressures they face. these researchers were part of the collaborative As always, if there is a meeting where our members taking the time to talk to me process that leads both USGS want to present their research, SSA strives to get them as a graduate student.” there. Once again, we subsidized registration, travel and SSA to meet its shared and accommodation costs for all attendees of the 2019 —ANNEMARIE BALTAY, Research vision and purpose. Seismology Student Workshop at Columbia University’s Geophysicist, USGS Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory—the only student- focused and student-led seismology and tectonophysics workshop in the country.

In February, SSA expanded its Global Travel Grant program, previously for students only, to welcome early-career member applicants. Launched in 2018, the program has already helped 14 student members network and present their research at meetings hosted by other scientific organizations around the globe.

Soon more members will be booking their travel for scientific conferences around the world this fall—travel they might not have been otherwise able to afford.

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SSA’s Global Travel Grant recipients—14 as of January 2019—are the embodiment of our mission: advancing earthquake science worldwide.

63%

SSA members live/work in the U.S.

The SSA Global Travel Grant is special among other grants. Not many professional societies provide you with the means to attend other meetings, especially ones 37% in other countries. This grant recognizes the importance of sharing science across SSA members political borders. It helped me widen my live/work outside the professional network and even sparked U.S. potential collaborations on future projects. SSA is a society that is truly giving back to its community.”

— LEAH SALDITCH, Ph.D. student, Northwestern University, on her 2019 Global Travel Grant, which helped her attend the International Colloquium on Historical Earthquakes & Paleoseismology Studies in Barcelona, Spain 50/50

Half of SSA authors live in U.S. and half live overseas

12 Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony 13 More Reasons to Read TOP DOWNLOADED ARTICLES IN 2019 and Publish with Us BSSA When your work is published in SSA’s journals, you can be confident that it will reach the wider scientific community. Our audience spans Generalized Seismic Phase Detection with well beyond SSA’s nearly 3,000 members. We’re read by readers at Deep Learning more than 1,300 institutions in 43 countries. Do Injection-Induced Earthquakes Rupture Reading these articles has never been a more inviting experience; Away from Injection Wells due to Fluid and sharing them with colleagues near and far has never been Pressure Change? easier. SSA rang in the new year with a full redesign of both journals, Historical Earthquakes of the Eastern Sunda offering more content, more specialization and new ways for SPECIAL ISSUES Arc: Source Mechanisms and Intensity- authors and readers to share that information. We’re adding Based Testing of Indonesia’s National an ORCID ID connection, and we’ve enhanced our citation and Seismic Hazard Assessment BSSA printing capabilities. 2020 Special Issues With BSSA Editor-in-Chief Thomas L. Pratt and SRL Editor-in-Chief » 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Allison Bent at the helm, these journals continue to highlight SRL » Observations, Mechanisms and Hazards of the latest events, technology and basic research that shape our Induced Seismicity understanding of seismology. A Python Library for Teaching Computation to Seismology Students SRL Machine Learning in Seismology: Turning 2019 Focus Sections Data into Insights I published my first research » 6 February 2018 Mw 6.4 Hualien, Taiwan, paper in the Bulletin of the Strong-Motion Observations of the 2017 Ms Earthquake » Machine Learning in Seismology Seismological Society of America 7.0 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake: Comparison with the 2013 Ms 7.0 Lushan Earthquake » Subduction Zone Processes in the Americas (BSSA) and have long valued the quality and professionalism of the 2020 Focus Sections (as of March 2020) SSA journals.” » 2018 Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake 1,300 » Regional Seismic Networks in North America Number of institutions at which — PETER SHEARER, professor of » Historical Seismograms our readers are based geophysics at Scripps Institution of » Data Mine: 2019 Ridgecrest, California Oceanography Earthquake Sequence » Past and Present of Historical Earthquake 43 Data and Research Number of countries » Earthscope: Alaska and Canada our readers live in

14 Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony Seismological Society of America | 2020 Annual Awards Ceremony 15 We’ve worked hard to establish and maintain an open More Connections channel of communication with U.S. policymakers because it’s critically important that we are on the on Capitol Hill same wavelength. SSA offers solid science to help The daily work of our members helps protect inform their decisions related to a range of issues American lives and infrastructure. That’s the key to the nation’s safety, security and economic message SSA continues to carry to Washington, prosperity, including those that affect global nuclear D.C. It’s the message that our 2019 student test monitoring, earthquake and tsunami early warning Federal investment is key to Geo-CVD travel grant recipients brought to programs, and oil and gas operations. members of U.S. Congress last September. earthquake science research and And the message that our senior scientists In recent months, we’ve created its applications because there are hammered home in the educational briefings we a new brochure that shares the no comparable private funders.” hosted on Capitol Hill during the past year. information Washington needs to know, facts like for every —SSA’S 2020 “SEISMOLOGY MATTERS” In February 2019, SSA members Karianne Bergen, dollar spent on earthquake PUBLICATION a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, mitigation efforts, about $10 and Zachary Ross, a postdoctoral scholar at are saved in response and the California Institute of Technology, led a rebuilding costs. Through briefing for policymakers on Machine Learning in dozens of “At Work” member Seismology. Government officials learned more profiles, we’ve continued to about how artificial intelligence and machine show U.S. decision makers and learning tools can help improve earthquake the rest of the world exactly how our Society advances detection, allowing for increased preparedness. earthquake science one member at a time.

In June 2019, SSA members Herb Wang, a SSA has connected me to my professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin- seismology peers, which has had the Madison, and Nate Lindsay, a Ph.D. student at More Members University of California, Berkeley, led a briefing biggest impact on my career. Not only do titled “Can You Hear It Now?”—a reference to the When it comes to advancing science, there is strength these people inspire me in my own work, in numbers. Today SSA is stronger than ever. In 2019 our seismic potential of fiber optic networks to pick but I have been able to connect with up vibrations from their surroundings. community welcomed 203 more members than 2018. Our early-career membership is up 61.8 percent, growing them on issues outside of research.” This past February, two additional SSA from 89 members in 2018 to 144 members in 2019. —AMANDA PRICE, Ph.D. candidate, Washington members—University of Oregon Professor Diego University in St. Louis, Missouri Melgar and Yale University Professor Jeffrey Park— stressed the importance of monitoring seafloor seismic activity, not only to increase our 61.8%

understanding of earthquake science, but also Center ©Natalia Earthquake Ruppert, Alaska Increase in 2019 to identify seismic risk areas and better prepare early-career Amanda Price and Doug Wiens monitoring the communities to address the hazard. membership deployment of seismometers as part of the Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment.

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2020 SSA Annual Meeting STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GRANT Travel Grant Recipients » Joshua D. Boschelli, Saint Louis University » Gregory P. De Pascale, Universidad de Chile Each of the students listed below » David Bruce, Central Washington University » Julien Thurin, Université Grenoble Alpes - ISTerre received free registration to the » Kaitlynn Burkhard, Michigan State University 2020 Annual Meeting as well as a » Francisco Chacon, National Autonomous University cash stipend for travel expenses. of Mexico EUROPEAN SEISMOLOGICAL COMMISSION/ SSA is grateful to our members and » Sofia Cubillos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia SSA TRAVEL GRANT » Elizabeth R. Curtiss, Central Washington University friends who gave generously to the » laria Dreossi, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia » Jianhua Gong, MIT/WHOI Joint Program Society’s Kanamori Fund, General e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS Fund and Student Travel Grant Fund, » Somak Hajra, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology which makes these grants possible. » Ekaterina Kazachkina, National Autonomous University of Mexico » Alexis Klimasewski, University of Oregon 2020 PUERTO RICO EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE » James S. Neely, Northwestern University TRAVEL GRANT » Angie D. Ortega Romo, The University of Oklahoma » Edwin O. Irizarry Brugman, University of » Colin Pennington, The University of Oklahoma Puerto Rico, Mayagüez » Marlon D. Ramos, University of Michigan » Margarita M. Solares-Colón, University of » Hwanwoo Seo, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Technology » Heather R. Shaddox, University of California, Santa Cruz » Ziqi Zhang, University of Rochester

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