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Events of 1973 Chilean Coup Captured in Historical Seismograms
11 December 2024–Military vehicles rumbling toward the presidential palace, bombs dropped by the Chilean Air Force, and an eerie quiet descending over Santiago after a curfew imposed by a military…
At Work: Julian Lozos
4 October 2024–Julian Lozos describes his job—modestly—as “making fake earthquakes on his computer.” But the associate professor of geophysics at California State University, Northridge was also a fan of volcanoes…
SSA Community Grants and Global Travel Grants Announced!
26 August 2024–Open every February and July, SSA’s grant programs remain one of the most important ways that SSA helps develop a skilled workforce of seismologists who will continue to…
Gift Helps Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant Program Grow
05 August 2024 –A $10,000 gift from Paul Andrew Spudich’s sister, Suzanne, to the Paul Andrew Spudich Fund has expanded its travel grant offerings for early-career and student members. Providing…
At Work: Arsène Sadiki
29 July 2024–In the spring of 2024, Arsène Sadiki traveled from Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) to share his research on the seismic precursors to the May 2021 eruption of Nyiragongo…
The Transformative Power of a Travel Grant
11 July 2024 – Ilma del Carmen Juarez-Garfias, a doctoral student at Victoria University of Wellington, said it was a privilege to attend the 7 th edition of the school on…
SSA Community Grants Bring Diverse Researchers Together
11 July 2024–“We are on fire!” That’s part of the positive feedback that Suzan van der Lee of Northwestern University and Emily Brodsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz…
2024 Annual Meeting Student Presentation Awards Announced
Honoring Student Excellence in Anchorage In an ongoing effort to support and promote the outstanding work of SSA student members, the Society is pleased to present 19 students with a…
First Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grantee Completes Scientific Journey
SSA’s newest grant program sends early-career member to Osaka, Japan Chunyang Ji, a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University whose research focuses on the modeling and assessment of high-frequency…
Photonic Seismology Travel Grants Announced
SSA announced four travel grants to student and early-career members to participate in the 2024 Photonic Seismology Conference. The travel grants are made possible by generous donations from the community…
At Work: Miao Zhang
15 May 2024–When it comes to seismic sources, observational seismologist Miao Zhang doesn’t play favorites. “I am curious about all types of seismic events on land and at sea, ranging…
Joyner Lecture Celebrates 20th Year
Nominations are now open for the next Joyner Lecturer. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024. 6 May 2024–The William B. Joyner Memorial Lecture delivered by Helen Crowley of…
SSA Announces First 2024 Community Grants
22 April 2024–Recipients of the first SSA Community Grants of 2024 will support students attending a training workshop on volcano and rift seismicity in East Africa and help organize a…
SSA Global Travel Grant Recipients Announced
1 April 2024— Five student and early-career members will receive travel grants to participate in scientific conferences as part of the Global Travel Grants program, which provides financial support to…
At Work: Luis Donoso Carmona
12 March 2024–Earthquakes were part of Luis Donoso Carmona’s environment “for as long as I can remember,” growing up in northern Chile in the small city of Vallenar in the…
At Work: HyeJeong Kim
13 February 2024–Oceans cover about 70% of the Earth’s surface—a fact that draws HyeJeong Kim’s scientific gaze under the sea, even as the seismologist now works on dry land as…
2024 Annual Meeting Travel Grants Announced
SSA announced 20 travel grants to student, early-career and international members to participate in the 2024 Annual Meeting. The travel grants are made possible by generous donations to the Kanamori…
At Work: Adrian Rodriguez-Marek
8 January 2024–The characterization of uncertainty has been a theme of Adrian Rodriguez-Marek’s career as an earthquake engineer. “That was something that I was interested in from the very first…
Our End-of-Year Travel Grant Fund Challenge is ON!
20 November 2023–Last year with your help, the SSA Annual Meeting Travel Fund supported 23 students and early-career members attending our 2023 meeting in Puerto Rico. SSA needs your generosity…
استدعاء نشرة جمعية رصد الزلازل الأمريكية BSSA للأوراق: زلزال الأطلس الكبير المغربي عام 2023 وزلزال غرب أفغانستان الرباعي عام
الزلازل في الأحزمة الجبلية التي تشوه ببطء: زلزال الأطلس الكبير المغربي عام 2023 وزلزال غرب أفغانستان الرباعي عام 2023 بقوة 6.3 ميجاوات تطلب نشرة جمعية رصد الزلازل الأمريكية (BSSA)…
Appel à communications du BSSA: Séismes dans les ceintures de montagnes à déformation lente
Appel à communications du BSSA Séismes dans les ceintures de montagnes à déformation lente : Le séisme de 2023 dans le Haut Atlas marocain et le quadruplet de séismes d’une magnitude…
Grant Recipients and Upcoming Programs
SSA’s 2023 Ground Motion Modeling Conference took place 10-13 October 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Thanks to generous donations from the community to the Kanamori Fund, SSA was able to provide…
SSA Launches The Paul Andrew Spudich Fund
18 September 2023–A new fund at SSA honors the life and accomplishments of Paul Andrew Spudich (1950-2019) by supporting the professional development of Society members at the beginning of their…
SSA Global Travel Grant Recipients Announced
This July, four SSA student and early-career members have been selected to receive Global Travel Grants to attend workshops or small meetings around the world. Venkata Gangadhara Rao (Institute of Geophysics,…
SSA Journals Announce Author Name Change Policy and Procedures
28 July 2023–SSA has developed an author name change policy and procedures for authors publishing in its three journals: the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Seismological Research…
Shape Your Society’s Future: Participate in Member Survey
13 July 2023 — The SSA community is invited to participate in a survey to identify the professional background and experience of those who engage with the Society. Member participation…
José A. Martinez-Cruzado Awarded 2023 Bruce Bolt Medal
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), the Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS), and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce that José A…
At Work: Joses Omojola
30 November 2022–So far, the career of Joses Omojola has moved from water to oil to salt. His first interest, in hydrogeology, came about in high school after he watched…
At Work: Fan-Chi Lin
28 October 2022–Fan-Chi Lin likes to travel. Some of his favorite destinations are the U.S. national parks, “and I’ve always been curious about how seismology can help us to learn…
At Work: Xiaohua (Eric) Xu
30 September 2022–“Geodesy is quite an old research field that started pretty much when humans wanted to measure the Earth, but it is also very new, especially since the rise…
At Work: Andrea Bryant
31 August 2022–Andrea Bryant came to her work with NASA’s Dragonfly mission through what she calls “a beautiful accident.” Quarantining by herself in a tiny studio apartment in 2020, the…
At Work: Zoya Farajpour
29 July 2022–Zoya Farajpour was born in Iran, one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Most of Iran’s major cities and towns are in the vicinity of…
At Work: Manuel Matthew Mendoza
29 June 2022–The scenes of devastation from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami were part of what made Manuel Mendoza consider a career as a geophysicist, he says. The combination…
SSA Establishes Standing DEI Committee
At its 20 November 2021 meeting, the SSA Board of Directors established the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, a standing committee of the SSA Board of Directors. Preamble SSA…
At Work: Songqiao “Shawn” Wei
20 September 2021–Growing up in the mountains in China, Songqiao “Shawn” Wei never saw the ocean until he was 23, flying over the Pacific from Beijing to San Francisco for…
Global Travel Grant Recipients Announced
SSA awarded Shanna Chu, Danielle Lindsay and Christina Tsarsitalidou with travel grants to present their research at technical conferences later this Fall. The grants are part of the Global Travel…
At Work: Louisa Brotherson
16 August 2021–Earthquakes are happening all the time inside Louisa Brotherson’s lab. Tiny ones, at least—and the strike-slip faults involved occur in Perspex plastic, not rock. Using a machine called…
At Work: Amir Salaree
15 July 2021–For Amir Salaree, the road to studying tsunamis began when he was a physics major at the University of Tehran, “looking for simple, real-world applications of all the…
SSA Global Travel Grants Advance Careers and Earthquake Science
An invitation to submit a paper. International collaboration. Feedback from senior scientists. These career-changing connections happen at scientific conferences. SSA’s Global Travel Grant gives more members the opportunity to enjoy…
GR Committee Seeks Volunteers
The Government Relations Committee (GRC) meets several times each year to identify legislative goals and issues, guiding SSA’s government relations work. The Committee has expanded its structure to include opportunities…
Researchers Share Strategies for Making Geosciences More Inclusive
21 April 2021–Concrete efforts to bring racial equity to the geosciences are receiving significant attention in the wake of new grassroots efforts and increased awareness of social justice issues in…
At Work: Rengin Gök
15 March 2021–Rengin Gök’s work day starts early, with text messages and email from all around the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Caucasus regions. Even before the…
For Eyewitness Accounts of Earthquake Shaking, Representation Matters
20 January 2021–As scientists increasingly rely on eyewitness accounts of earthquake shaking reported through online systems, they should consider whether those accounts are societally and spatially representative for an event,…
At Work: Takahiko Uchide
16 December 2020–Big earthquakes may grab the headlines, but for Takahiko Uchide, the small events are just as interesting. For one thing, studying small earthquakes is a good way to…
At Work: Esteban Chaves
16 November 2020–Costa Rica is home to about 15,000 earthquakes a year, and its citizens are well-educated when it comes to the science behind all the seismic activity, says Esteban…
SSA Creates Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force
Dear SSA Community: As a Society, we seek to do all we can to make science accessible to all. That goal has inspired a new task force to address diversity…
Supporting International Students
FROM BILL WALTER, PRESIDENT OF SSA 9 July 2020 — Seismology is a global endeavor, and the international scientific community benefits from a free exchange of people as well as…
At Work: Marlon Ramos
14 February 2020–As he pursued his master’s degree at Boise State University, Marlon Ramos was doing what he calls “traditional, active-source seismology,” interpreting seismic pictures of tsunami-producing faults near the…
Donations make a difference: Isabel Hong’s journey to the Annual Meeting
Isabel Hong has always been enthralled with earthquakes. As an elementary student growing up in Washington state, she made frequent leaps under her school desk for earthquake drills. And when…
At Work: Joan Latchman
15 July 2019 –Joan Latchman, a seismologist at The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up just a 15-minute walk…
SSA Global Travel Grant Recipients Announced
Five SSA student members have received Global Travel Grants to attend workshops or small meetings around the world. Farnaz Kamranzad (University of Tehran) will use the grant to attend the…
Annual Meeting Travel Grant Recipients Announced
SSA announced 21 student and international members will receive travel grants to attend the Annual Meeting in Seattle, to be held 23–26 April 2019. These travel grants are made possible by member contributions to the Kanamori Fund, the General…
Reflecting on Seismology of the Americas with Two International Travel Grant Recipients
International Travel Grant recipient Garmalia Mentor-William wanted to attend the 2018 Seismology of the Americas meeting to “meet other scientists, learn about new technologies and learn lessons from other countries”…
Student Attends Induced Seismicity Workshop With Help of Global Travel Grant
At first glance, an induced seismicity workshop might seem like an odd destination for Rachel Hatch, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her interest in earthquakes started…
Global Travel Grant Sends Student to Italian Conference
Heather McFarlin’s interest in volcanoes can be traced back to her father, who worked in hard rock drilling and loved science. This early exposure to geoscience followed her to the…
At Work: Hiroshi Kawase
1 October 2018–Before becoming a professor within the Sophisticated Earthquake Risk Evaluation Program – part of Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute – Hiroshi Kawase seemed destined to become an…
2018 SSA Global Travel Grant Recipients Announced
Rachel Hatch, Meredith Kraner, Heather McFarlin and Nadine Reitman are the first recipients of a new student travel program established by the Board of Directors in December 2017. Part of…
At Work: Xyoli Pérez-Campos
27 December 2017–Xyoli Pérez-Campos was 11 years old when the magnitude 8.0 Michoacán earthquake struck the Mexico City region on 19 September 1985, collapsing buildings near her home. Her uncle…
2018 SSA Travel Grant Winners Awarded
20 December 2017–Thanks to generous support from our members, SSA is thrilled to announce that twenty student, international and ESC members will receive travel grants to our Annual Meeting in…