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Biographical Information : Wayne Thatcher

Education:

 

 

Ph.D. (Seismology), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1971
B.Sc (Honors in Physics and Geology), McGill University, Montreal 1964
   

Experience:

  
Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey 1971-Present

Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

March-June 1998
Visiting Scientist, Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France April-Aug 1996
Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University, United Kingdom 1992-1993
Chief, Branch of Tectonophysics, US Geological Survey 1984-1989
Program Coordinator, Earthquake Prediction Research,  
National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, 1984-1989

Visiting Scientist, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University, Japan

1978-1979
   

Committees to Render Scientific Judgment:

 

Member, Committee on Geodesy, National Academy of Sciences

1976-1978

Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters

1976-1978

Member, Regional Staffing Panel, Geologic Division, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

1979-1980

Member, Chief Geologist's Scientific Advisory Committee, Geologic Division, US Geological Survey

1979-1982

Member, U. S. - Japan Natural Resources Panel on Earthquake Research

1979-Present

Member, NASA Geodynamics Program Review Panel

1981

Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research

1981-1984

Member, Steering Committee, Active Margins Panel,National Academy of Sciences

1987-1988

Member, National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council

1984-1989

Member, California Earthquake Probabilities Working Group

1987 & 1990

Chairman, American Geophysical Union, Earth Observing System, (EOS) Evaluation Panel

 1989-1990

Member, American Geophysical Union, Meetings Committee

1989-1990

Member USGS Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program;
Goals, Options and Priorities Writing Group('Page Committee Report')

 1990

Member, NSF/USGS Review Panel, S. California Earthquake Center

1990-1996

Member, NASA Dynamics of the Solid Earth Program Review Panel

1991

Member, Steering Committee, UNAVCO GPS Consortium

1994-1996

Member, NSF Continental Dynamics Program Review Panel

1998-Present
   

Membership in Professional Societies:

  

American Geophysical Union, Member,

1968-Present

President-elect, Tectonophysics Section 1988-90, President,

1990-92

Seismological Society of America, Member,

1968-Present
   

Honors and Awards:

  

Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Journal of Geophysical Research, AGU,

 1998
Meritorious Service Award, U. S. Geological Survey, 1994

Royal Society Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Oxford University,

1992

Fellow, American Geophysical Union,

1992

Graduate Research Assistantship, California Institute of Technology,

1965-1971

Mobil Oil Scholarship in Geophysics, McGill University,

1963

R.P.D. Graham Scholarship in Geology, McGill University,

1961