U.S. Geological Survey

EXPERIENCE

Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Team, since 1981. Research on earthquake stress-triggering, blind thrust faulting, earthquake deformation, seismic hazard assessment. Funding by NASA, FEMA, SCEC, US AID, PG&E and Swiss Re.

Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research—Solid Earth & Planets, for Geodesy and Tectonophysics, 1986-1989; 250 manuscripts and 12 Associate Editors. (Never again).

Visiting Professor, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Autumn 1989; Spring 1993; and Spring-Summer 1999.

Member, Committee on Geodesy (1988-90), Committee on Seismology & Geodynamics (1998-2000), U.S. National Research Council; Publications Committee (2002-2006), AGU.

Chair, Board of Journal Editors, American Geophysical Union, 2004-2006. Addressed issues common to AGU journals and adjudicated author-editor disputes.

Co-Founder and Chair, Stanford-USGS Graduate Fellowship in the Earth Sciences. 22 Fellows have been named since 1987 supported by alumni gifts; the endowment is now $1M.

Co-Founder, The Global Earthquake Model, a public-private partnership that will build an online seismic risk model in 5 years; 22M€ raised from companies and governments.

EDUCATION

Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1980-81

Stanford University, California, Ph.D., Geology, 1980

Brown University, Sc.B. Magna Cum Laude and with Honors, Geology, 1975

RECENT HONORS

• Keynote speaker for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, 2005

• Invited speaker at Royal Society conference on extreme natural hazards, 2005

• Delivered the Andrew C. Lawson Public Lecture of U.C. Berkeley, 2004

• Invited articles in Scientific American, 'Earthquake Conversations,' 'Hidden Earthquakes'

• Delivered the Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture of the AGU, Fall Meeting, 2001

• Received the Eugene M. Shoemaker Distinguished Achievement Award, USGS, 2000

• Received the Excellence in Outreach Award of the Southern Calif. Earthquake Center, 1999

• Received the Superior Service Award of the U.S. Department of the Interior, 1999

• Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1998

• Delivered the Francis Birch Tectonophysics Lecture of the Amer. Geophys. Union, 1996

• Received the NOAA Award for Outstanding Contributions in Geoscience, NGS, 1991

• Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America, 1991

• Centennial Medallion Recipient (for fundraising), Stanford University, 1991

PUBLICATION RECORD

In 2003, the Science Citation Index compiled a decade-long earthquake science database, which contains 6,000 papers by 9,000 authors from 750 journals in 100 countries (http://www.esi-topics.com/earthquakes/index.html), for which:
•  Stein is the second most cited author in earthquake science.