Allison Bent, Editor-in-Chief
srleditor@seismosoc.org
Bent has been a research seismologist with Natural Resources Canada since earning her Ph. D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1990. Her research interests include earthquake sources, earthquakes in stable continental environments, crustal structure, ground motions and the seemingly never-ending issues surrounding magnitudes. Stemming from her research on historical earthquakes, she now finds herself an advocate for the preservation and digitization of analog seismograms. She spent two terms on SSA’s Board of Directors and five years as an Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America prior to becoming Editor-In-Chief of SRL in July 2019.
Miranda Bohl, Managing Editor
(984) 326-3001
srl@seismosoc.org
Paige Horvath, Production Coordinator
bssaprod@seismosoc.org
Associate Editors
Aysegul Askan
Askan is a professor of civil engineering, earthquake studies and applied mathematics at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Türkiye. She received her M.Sc. on earthquake engineering from METU in 2002. She obtained her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 with her thesis focusing on full waveform inversion for seismic velocity structures. Her research interests include ground motion simulations and validation of simulated motions, multi-scale seismic risk and loss estimations in urban regions, structural reliability and parameter estimation problems for site characterization. She joined SRL as an Associate Editor in 2024.
Lihua Fang
Fang is a professor in the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. He received his Ph.D. degrees in 2009 from the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration and 2010 from University of Trieste. His research interests include artificial intelligence seismology, real time seismology, generation mechanism of aftershock sequence, fault zone structure, and ambient noise tomography. He joined SRL as an Associate Editor in 2023.
Keywords: intraplate earthquake, deep learning, microseismic events detection, seismic tomography, earthquake location, fault zone structure
William Frank
Frank is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. His research deals subduction dynamics and how to leverage microseismicity to interrogate the geodetic record to recover the evolution of fault motion throughout the earthquake cycle. He joined SRL as an Associate Editor in 2020.
Keywords: seismology, geodesy, earthquake physics, subduction, tectonophysics
Hadi Ghasemi
Hadi Ghasemi is a senior seismologist at Geoscience Australia, where he has been contributing to national and international seismic monitoring and research initiatives since 2010. He holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics with a focus on Engineering Seismology from the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology in Tehran. Ghasemi has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, supported by Monbukagakusho and JSPS scholarships. His research primarily focuses on ground-motion modeling and earthquake hazard assessment. He joined SRL as an Associate Editor in 2024.
Thomas Goebel
Goebel is an assistant professor at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in geophysics in 2013 at the University of Southern California where he studied seismicity statistics and fault roughness. He was a postdoc at Caltech and University of California, Santa Cruz before joining the faculty at the University of Memphis in 2019. His research interests include the study of natural, induced and laboratory quakes as well as fault structure and hydrology.
Romain Jolivet
Jolivet is an associate professor at the Département de Géosciences of the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, France. He received his Ph.D. in 2012 in geophysics from the Université Grenoble Alpes and worked at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge. His research focus on the use of geodetic methods, mainly InSAR and GNSS, to image surface deformation and unravel the processes underlying the earthquake cycle on continental active faults and subduction margins. He joined SRL as an associate editor in 2022.
Erol Kalkan
Kalkan is a structural engineer and CEO/Founder of QuakeLogic. He received his B.Sc. degree in civil engineering and first M.Sc. degree in engineering seismology. His second M.Sc. degree is in structural engineering. His doctoral degree is in structural and geotechnical engineering from University of California, Davis. His postdoctoral studies were conducted at University of California, Berkeley. He previously worked as a research structural engineer and strong-motion network manager for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center in Menlo Park, California. His research interests include structural health monitoring, earthquake-early warning, signal processing, ground-motion prediction, wave-propagation and seismic hazard quantification. He joined the editorial board of SRL in 2010.
Olga-Joan Ktenidou
Ktenidou is a civil engineer and received her M.Sc. in soil mechanics at Imperial College London and her Ph.D. in engineering seismology at Aristotle University Thessaloniki in Greece. Since 2018, Ktenidou has served as an associate researcher at the National Observatory of Athens in Greece. Prior to that, she worked at the French Institute for Radioprotection & Nuclear Safety (France), the Earth Science Institute in Grenoble (France), PEER/UC Berkeley (US), GFZ-Potsdam (Germany), and the University of Greenwich (UK). She is interested in seismic hazard and ground motion, particularly site response, attenuation and uncertainty, with a special interest in high frequencies and rock characterization. She is fluent in Greek, English, Spanish and French. She joined the editorial board of SRL in 2022.
Sarah Minson
Minson is a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center. She earned a B.A. in geophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2010. Minson began her current position with the USGS in 2014. Her main research focus is understanding earthquake source processes utilizing a variety of seismic and geodetic datasets, seeking to understand what we can and cannot determine about faulting processes given that all of these data sources are indirect observations of fault zone processes. Her research includes work in Bayesian inference of kinematic earthquake rupture models, uncertainty quantification, inverse methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, earthquake moment tensors, and earthquake early warning. Minson joined the editorial board of SRL in 2022.
Avinash Nayak
Nayak is a postdoc in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from University of California Berkeley in 2017. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Exploration Geophysics along with a minor in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2012. His research interests include seismic moment tensors, seismic sources, local-to-regional scale body wave and surface wave tomography, ambient noise seismology, dense array deployments, distributed acoustic sensing, earthquake and subsurface monitoring, near-surface characterization, and volcanoseismology. Nayak joined the editorial board of SRL in 2023.
Adam Ringler
Ringler is a scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory. He received a B.Sc. at the Colorado School of Mines in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in 2005. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in Pure Math in 2007 and 2009. He began working at the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory in 2008. His main focus is on data quality and instrumentation with a view towards improving the Global Seismographic Network. He has investigated problems related to normal mode seismology, surface wave seismology, signal processing, inverse problems and strong motion seismology. He joined the editorial board of SRL in 2023.
Yufang Rong
Rong is a principal research scientist in the Research Division of FM Global. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Geophysics from Peking University and Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics at UCLA. Before joining FM Global, Rong held a principal research scientist position at AIR Worldwide Corporation, which is now part of Verisk. Her research interests include seismic hazard and risk assessment, earthquake forecasting, and earthquake ground motion and site response. Rong joined the editorial board of SRL in 2024.
Elizabeth A. Vanacore
Vanacore is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Department of Geology and the Puerto Rico Seismic Network. She received her B.S. in Geological Sciences from Virginia Tech in 2003 and her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2008. She held post-doctoral positions at the Australian National University Research School of Earth Sciences and the University of Leeds before joining UPRM in 2014. Her current research encompasses a variety of seismological research ranging from array seismology, real time network operations, ground motions, and tsunami hazards. Vanacore joined SRL as an associate editor in 2022.
Hongfeng Yang
Yang is an Associate Professor in the Earth system science program at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2010 from Saint Louis University. His research interest includes earthquake source physics, subduction zone dynamics, fault zone structure and evolution and induced earthquakes. He joined the editorial board of SRL in 2018.
Miao Zhang
Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Dalhousie University. He received his Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015. Before joining Dalhousie University in 2019, he held post-doctoral positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University. His research interests include seismic source processes, wave prorogation, nuclear explosion monitoring, machine learning and marine seismology. He joined the editorial board of SRL in 2024.
Sara McBride, Communicating Science Editor
McBride is a Research Social Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in the Geologic Hazards Science Center. She was a Mendenhall Fellow at the USGS from 2017 – 2019. She received her Ph.D. in English and Media Studies from Massey University in 2017 and her dissertation explored the communication lessons learned from the Canterbury (Christchurch), New Zealand Earthquake Sequence. Sara has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, which a concentration in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. McBride was a Public Information Officer for emergency management in Samoa (2009), Christchurch Earthquake (2011), Tongariro Eruption (2012/2013), Fiji (2012), Eketahuna Earthquake (2014), Wilberforce Earthquake (2015), East Cape Earthquake (2016), and the M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake (2016). She also served as the Chief of Operations for the M6.4 Southwestern Puerto Rico sequence. She joined the SRL editorial board in 2024.
Oliver Boyd, Eastern Section Editor
Boyd is a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey studying various aspects of seismic hazard including ground motions and earthquake probabilities. He began with the USGS National Seismic Hazards Modeling Project in Golden, Colorado in 2004 studying time-dependent seismic hazard in Alaska. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 2007 to focus on earthquake hazards in the central and eastern United States (CEUS) and returned to Golden in 2013 to work on issues related to earthquake hazards across the conterminous United States, specifically those related to earthquake ground motions as part of the Ground Motion Project. Prior to joining the Survey, he obtained his Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Alan Kafka, EduQuakes Editor
Kafka’s research and teaching interests span the intersection of geophysics, earthquake science, environmental systems and citizen science for the public good. He studies earthquakes and seismological processes in many regions of planet Earth, and has long been obsessed with the enigma of why earthquakes occur in the Eastern U.S., deep in the interior of the North American plate. Kafka is inspired by and active in promoting today’s new technologies that drive emerging opportunities for cooperation among seismologists and students of all backgrounds and ages around the world.
Keywords: geophysics, earthquake science, environmental systems, citizen science
Abhijit Ghosh, Electronic Seismologist Editor
Ghosh is an earthquake seismologist and an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2011. He is interested in understanding the physics of earthquake slip and rupture dynamics by studying a wide spectrum of earthquake signals, including signals associated with slow earthquakes. He specialized in seismic array techniques and its applications in imaging earthquakes — big and small, slow and fast. Ghosh is also interested in aftershock studies, and how fault structure influences earthquake rupture. He joined the SRL editorial board in 2018.
John Ebel, Historical Seismologist Editor
Ebel is a professor of geophysics at Boston College and a senior research scientist at the Weston Observatory. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology. He has been on the faculty at Boston College and affiliated with Weston Observatory since 1981. He is a former editor-in-chief of SRL. His research focus has been on the seismicity and seismotectonics of central and eastern North America, with an emphasis on the seismicity of the northeastern U.S. His research also has concentrated on seismic hazard analyses, earthquake statistics, earthquake source studies and earthquake forecasting and prediction, both in the U.S. and globally.
Taka’aki Taira, Data Mine Editor
Taira is a research seismologist at Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University, Japan in 2004. His research interests include 4D imaging of Earth’s structure, seismic instrumentation, earthquake rupture process and seismic wave propagation. He has been heavily involved in the operations of Northern California Earthquake Data Center to maintain and improve station metadata and waveform quality. Taira joined the editorial board of SRL in 2014.
Project Editor
Horst Rademacher