Alumni
Below is a list of Ph.D. graduates from the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech beginning from 1950. Please report any inaccuracies or omissions to seismo.web@gps.caltech.edu
| Year | Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Peter Dehlinger | (deceased) | University of Connecticut |
| 1953 | Robert Donald Forester | - | |
| 1954 | Clarence R. Allen | Professor Emeritus | Caltech |
| 1954 | George G. Shor, Jr. | Professor Emeritus | UC San Diego |
| 1955 | Cinna Lomnitz | Professor Emeritus | National
University of Mexico, Mexico City |
| 1958 | Allan Robert Sanford |
Professor Emeritus | New Mexico Tech |
| 1960 | Edward Flinn, III | (deceased) | NASA |
| 1961 | Ari Ben-Menahem | Professor
Emeritus (Comp. Sci. & Applied Math.) |
Weizmann Institute |
| 1961 | John Helding Healy | (retired) | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 1961 | Robert Alden Phinney | Professor Emeritus (Geophysics) |
Princeton University |
| 1961 | Stewart W. Smith | Professor
Emeritus (Earth & Space Sciences) |
University of Washington |
| 1962 | Don L. Anderson | Professor Emeritus | Caltech |
| 1962 | Robert Kovach | Professor Emeritus | Stanford University |
| 1963 | Shelton S. Alexander | Professor Emeritus | Pennsylvania State University |
| 1963 | David G. Harkrider | Professor Emeritus | Caltech |
| 1963 | M. Nafi Toksoz | Professor Emeritus (Earth, Atmos. & Planetary) |
MIT |
| 1964 | Charles B. Archambeau | Retired (Professor of Physics) | University of Colorado |
| 1964 | Shawn Biehler | Professor Emeritus (Geophysics) | UC Riverside |
| 1964 | Armando Cisternas | Professor | Inst. de Physique du Globe |
| 1964 | John K. Gardner | Retired | UC Los Angeles |
| 1965 | Robert Victor Sharp | Retired | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 1966 | Lane R. Johnson | Professor Emeritus | UC Berkeley |
| 1966 | Ta-Liang Teng | Professor Emeritus (Earth Sciences) |
University of Southern California |
| 1966 | Francis T. Wu | Professor of Geophysics | SUNY Binghamton |
| 1968 | Thomas L. Henyey | Professor Emeritus | Univ. of Southern California |
| 1968 | Richard J. O'Connell | Professor | Harvard University |
| 1969 | Hartmut A. Spetzler | Professor Emeritus | University of Colorado |
| 1970 | Bruce R. Julian | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1970 | Paul G. Richards | Professor Emeritus | Columbia University |
| 1970 | Max Wyss | Director | World Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction in Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1971 | Walter Arabasz | Retired | |
| 1971 | James A. Cutts | - | Center for Space Microelectronics, JPL |
| 1971 | David P. Hill | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1971 | Charles G. Sammis | Professor of Earth Sciences | Univ. of Southern California |
| 1972 | Geoffrey F. Davies | Professor Emeritus | Australian National University |
| 1972 | Edward S. Gaffney | President | G.R.E. |
| 1972 | Thomas C. Hanks | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1972 | Wayne R. Thatcher | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1972 | Stephen H. Wolfe | Monitor UPCAP | UPCAP |
| 1973 | Thomas H. Jordan | Professor,
Director of Southern California Earthquake Center |
University of Southern California |
| 1973 | Pierre H. Jungels | Chief Executive | Petrofina (UK) Ltd. |
| 1973 | Jean-Bernard Minster | Professor of Geophysics | Scripps Institute of Oceanography/UCSD |
| 1973 | James H. Whitcomb | Prog. Dir., Seismology | National Science Foundation |
| 1974 | Ralph W. Alewine, III | DARPA/NMRO | |
| 1974 | Hon. Rex Gibbons | Retired | Newfoundland, Canada |
| 1974 | Peter L. Lagus | - | Lagus Applied Technology, Inc., Escondido, CA |
| 1974 | Hsi-Ping Liu | Geophysicist | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 1976 | Charles A. Langston | Professor of Seismology and Earth Structure, Director of the Center for Earthquake Research and Information | University of Memphis |
| 1977 | Lawrence J. Burdick | (deceased) | - |
| 1977 | Robert J. Geller | Professor | Tokyo University |
| 1977 | Robert S. Hart | Entrepreneur | - |
| 1977 | John Dugan O'Keefe | (deceased) | - |
| 1978 | David M. Hadley | VP of Engineering | Quinton Instrument Co. |
| 1978 | Thomas H. Heaton | Professor | Caltech |
| 1978 | James A. Hileman | - | - |
| 1978 | Dan D. Kosloff | Professor of Geophysics | Tel Aviv University |
| 1978 | George R. Mellman | VP of Research | Insightful Corp |
| 1978 | Emile A. Okal | Professor | Northwestern University |
| 1978 | Susan A. Raikes | Independent Geophysical Consultant | British Petroleum |
| 1978 | Seth A. Stein | Professor | Northwestern University |
| 1979 | Rhett G. Butler | Affiliate Faculty | Hawaii Inst of Geophysics & Planetology |
| 1979 | Wai-Ying Chung | Associate Professor of Mathematics/Physics | Rust College |
| 1979 | Raymond Jeanloz | Professor, Dept of Geology and Geophysics | UC Berkeley |
| 1979 | Carl E. Johnson | Fellow | BAESytems, Spectral Solutions, LLC, Honlulu |
| 1979 | Jose A. Rial | Professor of Geological Sciences | Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 1979 | Carlos Salvado | - | Rockwell International |
| 1980 | David M. Cole | - | - |
| 1980 | Allen Gillespie | Professor
of Earth & Space Sciences |
University of Washington |
| 1980 | Raymond Jeanloz | Professor | UC Berkeley |
| 1980 | Gregory A. Lyzenga | Professor of Geophysics/ Member, Technical staff, JPL | Harvey Mudd College, CA |
| 1981 | John Cipar | Geophysicist | U.S. Air Force AFGL/LWH |
| 1981 | John E. Ebel | Professor,
Director, Western Observatory |
Boston College |
| 1981 | Joanna M. Vizgirda | - | Amigos Energy, Dallas |
| 1982 | Larry J. Ruff | Professor of Geological Sciences | University of Michigan |
| 1982 | Gordon S. Stewart | President | Pacific Geophysics, Inc. |
| 1982 | Joana M. Vizgirda | Associate | Amigos Energy Advisors |
| 1983 | Eric P. Chael | Seismologist | Sandia Nat. Lab. |
| 1983 | Stephen N. Cohn | Dir. of Network Anal. | BBN Communications |
| 1983 | Keith A. Echelmeyer | (deceased) | University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| 1983 | Thorne Lay | Professor of Earth Science | UC Santa Cruz |
| 1983 | Hsui-Lin Liu | Research Scientist | Schlumberger-Doll Research |
| 1983 | James C. Pechmann | Research Associate Professor | University of Utah |
| 1983 | Marius S. Vassiliou | Member Technical Staff | Rockwell International Science Center |
| 1983 | Terry C. Wallace | Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology & Engineering (acting) |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 1984 | Edward J. Corbett | - | - |
| 1984 | Mark B. Boslough | Member Technical Staff | Sandia Nat. Lab. |
| 1984 | Jeffrey W. Given | Senior Staff Geophys. | Science Application International Corporation |
| 1984 | Marianne C. Walck | Supervisor, Geophysics | Sandia Nat. Lab. |
| 1985 | Thomas M. Hearn | Associate Professor | New Mexico State University |
| 1985 | Eugene D. Humphreys | Professor | University of Oregon |
| 1985 | Ronan J. Le Bras | Senior Geophysicist | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Org. |
| 1985 | Patricia F. Scott | - | - |
| 1986 | Holly K. Eissler Given | Director, Ocean Observing | Consortium for Ocean Leadership |
| 1986 | Stephen Grand | Professor | University of Texas, Austin |
| 1986 | Mark A. Richards | Executive Dean, College of Letters and Science | UC Berkeley |
| 1986 | Sally M. Rigden-Hill | Manager, Operations and Resources | Molecular Mining Corp., Canada |
| 1986 | Christopher O. Sanders | - | Microsoft |
| 1987 | Luciana Astiz | Research Scientist | UC San Diego |
| 1987 | Heidi B. Houston | Professor |
University of Washington |
| 1987 | John N. Louie | Professor of Seismology | Univ. of Nevada, Reno |
| 1987 | Janice Regan | Senior Lecturer | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| 1987 | Douglas R. Schmitt | Professor | University of Alberta |
| 1987 | David R. Scott | Financial Analyst | Deutsch Bank, London |
| 1987 | John E. Vidale | Professor | University of Washington |
| 1988 | Phyllis H. Ho-Liu | - | - |
| 1988 | Manfred A. Lange | Director | Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat, Munster, Germany |
| 1988 | Christof Stork | Entrepreneur, Research Associate | Halliburton Inc. |
| 1988 | Robert F. Svendsen, Jr. | Professor of Mechanics | University of Dortmund, Germany |
| 1988 | Jiajun Zhang | (deceased) | - |
| 1989 | Marcus Bursik | Professor of Geology | SUNY Buffalo |
| 1989 | Carol A. Polanskey | Member Technical Staff | JPL |
| 1989 | Carol Prentice | Geologist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1989 | Stephen L. Salyards | Programmer Analyst Supervisor | UC Los Angeles |
| 1989 | Richard Stead | Tech. Staff | Scientific Applications International Corp. |
| 1990 | William W. Anderson | Scientist | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 1990 | Allison Bent | - | Dept. of EMR, Canada |
| 1990 | J. Huw Davies | Reader | Cardiff University, Wales |
| 1990 | Olafur Gudmundsson | Research Scientist | Australian National University |
| 1990 | Shawn Larsen | Group Leader | Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. |
| 1990 | L. Victoria LeFevre | - | - |
| 1990 | Harold Magistrale | - | FM Global, Boston |
| 1990 | Gregory H. Miller | Professor, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group | UC Berkeley |
| 1990 | Hua-Wei Zhou | Professor & Pevehouse Chair | Texas Tech University |
| 1991 | Robert Graves | Research Geophysicist | USGS Geological Survey |
| 1991 | Lorraine Hwang | Associate Director, CIG | UC Davis |
| 1991 | Scott D. King | Professor of Geophysics | Virginia Tech |
| 1991 | Frank Webb | Technical Staff | JPL |
| 1991 | Lian-She Zhao | - | Molecular Dynamics Sunnyvale, California |
| 1992 | Andrea Donnellan | Scientist | JPL |
| 1992 | Thomas S. Duffy | Professor of Geosciences | Princeton |
| 1992 | Sally McGill | Professor of Geological Science | Calif. State University, San Bernardino |
| 1992 | Catherine L. Smither | Entrepreneur | Seattle, WA |
| 1992 | David J. Wald | Supervisory Research Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO |
| 1992 | Bradley B. Woods | - | Woodward Clyde Consultants |
| 1992 | C. Bruce Worden | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA |
| 1992 | Yu-Shen Zhang | Research Scientist | UC Santa Cruz |
| 1993 | Douglas S. Dreger | Professor of Geophysics | UC Berkeley |
| 1993 | Lisa Grant | Assoc. Professor | UC Irvine |
| 1993 | Kuo-Fong Ma | Professor | National Central University, Taiwan |
| 1993 | Linda R. Rowan | Director of Govenrment Affairs | American Geological Institute |
| 1994 | Edward J. Garnero | Professor | Arizona State University |
| 1994 | Xiaodong Song | Professor | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1994 | Paul J. Tackley | Professor | ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1995 | Weishi Huang | Senior Software Engineer | Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| 1995 | Monica D. Kohler | Research Seismologist/Earthquake Engineer | UC Los Angeles |
| 1995 | Laura E. Jones | Sr. Research Associate | Cornell University |
| 1995 | Shingo Watada | Research Associate | ERI, University of Tokyo |
| 1996 | Sharon Kedar | Research Scientist | JPL |
| 1996 | Hong Kie Thio | Seismologist | URS Corp. |
| 1996 | Wenbo Yang | Senior Engineer | Schlumberger Reservoir Completions Ctr. |
| 1997 | Guangking (George) Chen | - | - |
| 1997 | Xi Song | - | Green Hills Software, CA |
| 1998 | Xiaoming Ding | Principal Technologist | Razorfish, Inc. |
| 1998 | Craig Scrivner | Computer
Systems Administrator/Programmer |
Central Washington University |
| 1998 | Lianxing Wen | Professor | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1998 | Blair Zajac | Strategic Project Lead | Akamai Technologies |
| 1998 | Lupei Zhu | Associate Professor | St. Louis University |
| 1999 | Kathleen Holland | Analyst | Xontech (contracting company) |
| 1999 | Miriam Jackson | Research Scientist | Norwegian
Water Resources & Energy Department |
| 1999 | Cangli Liu | Researcher/Deputy Director | Southwest Inst. of Fluid Physics, China |
| 1999 | Timothy Melbourne | Professor | Central Washington University |
| 1999 | Jascha Polet | Associate Professor | Cal Poly Pomona |
| 1999 | Igor Sidorin | - | Deutsche Bank |
| 2000 | Emily Brodsky | Professor of Geophysics | UC Santa Cruz |
| 2000 | Jeanne Hardebeck | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 2001 | Magali Billen | Associate Professor of Geophysics | UC Davis, CA |
| 2001 | Leo Eisner | Purkyne Fellow | Inst. of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences |
| 2001 | Julie Nazareth | Lecturer, Dept of Physics | Cal Poly, Pomona |
| 2001 | Sidao Ni | Professor of Geophysics | USTC, China |
| 2002 | Chen Ji | Associate Professor | UC Santa Barbara |
| 2002 | Anupama Venkataraman | Exxon-Mobil | |
| 2003 | Joseph Akins | Registered Nurse | Keck Medical Center of USC |
| 2003 | Shengnian Luo | Technical Staff Member | Los Alamos National Lab |
| 2003 | Matthew Pritchard | Associate Professor | Cornell University |
| 2003 | Patricia Persaud | Instructor Geology | Cal Poly, Pomona |
| 2004 | Javier Favela | - | Lockheed, Palmadale |
| 2004 | Rowena Lohman | Assistant Professor | Cornell University |
| 2004 | Brian Savage | Assistant Professor | University of Rhode Island |
| 2005 | Jane Dmochowski | Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2005 | Kaiwen Xia | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto |
| 2005 | Bill Keller | - | Anandarko - Geomechanics Specialist Geomechanics International |
| 2006 | Anita Ai (Huirong) | - | Geomechanics International |
| 2006 | Ying Tan | - | - |
| 2006 | Qinya Liu | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto |
| 2006 | Debbie Smith | Post-doc | U.C. Riverside |
| 2006 | Eh Tan | Post-doc | The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2007 | Zhimeh Yan | Research Geophysicist | WesternGeco |
| 2007 | Alex Song | Research Scientist | JAMSTEC, Japan |
| 2007 | Vala Hjorliefsdottir | Assistant Professor | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| 2008 | Eun-Seo Choi | Post-doc | The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2008 | Chris Dicaprio | Scientist | Exxon Mobil Ressearch Company |
| 2008 | Nathan Downey | Scientist | Exxon Mobil Ressearch Company |
| 2008 | Min Chen | Post-doc | MIT |
| 2009 | Yoshihiro Kaneko | Post-doc | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 2009 | Carl Tape | Assistant Professor | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 2009 | Ozgun Konca | Assistant Professor | Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boğaziçi University, Turkey |
| 2009 | Daoyuan Sun | Post-doc | University of Southern California |
| 2010 | Ravi Kanda | Post-doc | National Taiwan University, Taipei |
| 2010 | Lijun Liu | Assistant Professor | University of Illinois, Urbana |
| 2010 | Sarah Minson | Post-doc | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 2011 | YoungHee Kim | Assistant Professor | Seoul National University |
| 2011 | Michelle Selvans | Planetary Geophysicist | Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum |
| 2011 | Sonja Spasojevic | Scientist | British Petroleum |
| 2012 | Laura Alisic | Post-doc | University of Cambridge |
| 2012 | Daniel Bower | Staff Scientist | Caltech |
| 2012 | Ting Chen | Post-doc | Los Alimos National Laboratory |
| 2012 | Caitlin Murphy | Post-doc | Carnegie Institute |
