Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
For more than 15 years, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology and the Seismological Society of America are pleased to offer fascinating non-technical presentations on earthquake science topics to general audiences across the US. The IRIS/SSSA Distinguished Lectureship Program teams with your established public speaker series or program, including radio and TV shows, to coordinate scheduling and logistics.
Each speaker is an expert in his/her specific research area and is skilled in effectively communicating new and exciting findings to the public. Whether virtual or in-person, our speakers are available to share his/her expertise in a variety of delivery modes such as panel discussions, conversations/interviews, storytelling, or traditional talks with Q&A, and will tailor his/her presentation to your audience and event. When in-person events safely resume at public venues, IRIS and SSA will cover the speaker’s travel and lodging costs.
NOTE: In some cases, Department seminars may be scheduled in conjunction with a Public Lecture.
For more information, please contact:
Perle Dorr| Year | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Dr. William Wilcock | Whale Seismology |
| 2021 | Dr. Guoqing Lin | The 2018 Kīlauea Volcano Eruption: Expected or a Surprise and What Have We Learned? |
| 2021 | Dr. Ben Holtzman | Seismology with your Ears: Listening to Patterns in Tectonic, Volcanic and Human-induced Earthquakes |
| 2020 | Dr. Sarah Minson | “Imminent Shaking": What Kind of Earthquake Warning is Possible? |
| 2020 | Dr. Ross S. Stein | How the Gold Rush and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Enabled Us to Divine our Seismic Future |
| 2019 | Dr. Susan Hough | What Past Earthquakes Tell Us About Future Earthquake Hazard: Facts & Fake Facts |
| 2019 | Dr. Arthur Rodgers | Forecasting Ground Shaking from Earthquakes Using Supercomputers |
| 2018 | Dr. Katie Keranen | Induced Earthquakes: Experimenting Unintentionally |
| 2018 | Dr. Frederik Simons | Through the Ocean to the Mantle: Under the Seas with a Fleet of Floating Seismic Robots |
| 2017 | Dr. John Vidale | A Tale of Three Pacific Northwest Temblors: One Big, One Deep and One Direct Hit |
| 2017 | Dr. Stephen McNutt | Shaking and Baking: Using Seismology to Study Volcanoes |
| 2016 | Dr. Justin Rubinstein | Yes, Humans Really Are Causing Earthquakes |
| 2016 | Dr. Caroline Beghein | From Plate Tectonics to Deep Earth Dynamics: A Seismological Journey Inside the Earth |
| 2015 | Dr. Thorne Lay | A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them |
| 2015 | Dr. Doug Wiens | Fire and Ice: Volcanoes, Earth Structure, and the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| 2014 | Dr. Meredith Nettles | Glacial Earthquakes: Using Seismic and GPS Observations to Map Changes in Glaciers and Ice Sheets Worldwide |
| 2014 | Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero | Earth's Cocktail Party: Deciphering the Physics of Earthquakes With Networks of Seismic Arrays |
| 2013 | Dr. Lara Wagner | Imaging the Ancient Margin: How the Southeastern United States Was Built (And Why You Should Care) |
| 2013 | Dr. Gavin Hayes | Mitigating Disasters: Earthquake Response in the 21st Century |
| 2012 | Dr. Miaki Ishii | Dissecting Giant Earthquakes: Things We Didn't Know |
| 2012 | Dr. Gregory Beroza | The Tortoise and the Hare: Slow vs Fast Earthquakes |
| 2011 | Dr. Wayne D. Pennington | Preparing for the Future: Scientific and Humanitarian Lessons from the Haiti and Japan earthquakes |
| 2011 | Dr. Beatrice Magnani | The New Madrid Earthquakes Two Hundred Years Later: What Have We Learned About Earthquakes at the Center of Tectonic Plates? |
| 2010 | Dr. Brian Stump | Forensic Seismology and Nucler Testing: The Detective Work of Seismologists |
| 2010 | Dr. Stephen Malone | Predicting Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions: What Can and Can't Now Be Done |
| 2009 | Dr. Aaron A. Velasco | Can a Large Earthquake in Another Country Cause One in Your Backyard? |
| 2009 | Dr. Richard C. Aster | Taking Earth's Pulse and Temperature Using Seismology: Roaring Oceans and Singing Icebergs |
| 2008 | Dr. Cliff Frohlich | Deep Earthquakes and the Secret of Seismology |
| 2008 | Dr. Uri ten Brink | Peace and Science in the Middle East |
| 2007 | Dr. Anne Sheehan | Seeing Beneath Mt. Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes |
| 2007 | Dr. Brian Atwater | The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 - A Trans-Pacific Detective Story |
| 2006 | Dr. Mary Lou Zoback | The 1906 Earthquake - Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and Future Directions |
| 2006 | Dr. Ed Garnero | Vibrations From the Deep: Deciphering the Birth and Death of the Earth's Surface |
| 2006 | Dr. Seth Stein | Giant Earthquakes: Why, Where, When, and What We Can Do |
| 2005 | Dr. Michael Wysession | Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and a Modern Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| 2005 | Dr. Susan Hough | The Very Long Reach of Very Large Earthquakes |
| 2004 | Dr. David E. James | Revealing the Mysteries of the Earth's Deep Interior: Plates, Plumes, and the Birth of Modern Seismology |
| 2004 | David Wald | Rapid Earthquake Information: Citizen Science and New Tools for Emergency Response |
| 2003 | Dr. Roger Bilham | Death and Construction: Earthquakes on an Urban Planet |
| 2003 | Dr. Walter Mooney | The Discovery of the Earth: The Quest to Understand the Interior of our Planet |
