Caltech Seismo Lab Ph.D. Alumni

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Below is a list of 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
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 of Geosciences
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
Pennsylvania State University
1963 David G. Harkrider Professor Emeritus
Caltech
1963 M. Nafi Toksoz Professor of 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
UC Berkeley
1966 Ta-Liang Teng Professor of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
1966 Francis T. Wu Professor of Geophysics
SUNY Binghamton
1968 Thomas L. Henyey Professor, Deputy Director,
So. Cailf. Earthquake Center
Univ. of Southern California
1968 Richard J. O'Connell Professor
Harvard University
1969 Hartmut A. Spetzler Professor
University of Colorado
1970 Bruce R. Julian Geophysicist
U.S. Geological Survey
1970 Paul G. Richards Professor
Columbia University
1970 Max Wyss Director
World Agency for Planetary Monitoring
and Earthquake Risk Reduction in
Geneva, Switzerland
1971 Walter Arabasz Director of Seismograph Stations
University of Utah
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
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 Director of IGPP
UC San Diego
1973 James H. Whitcomb Prog. Dir., Seismology
National Science Foundation
1974 Ralph W. Alewine, III  
DARPA/NMRO
1974 Hon. Rex Gibbons Minister of Nat. Res.
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
University of Memphis
1977 Lawrence J. Burdick (deceased)
-
1977 Robert J. Geller Professor
Tokyo University
1977 Robert S. Hart General Partner
SeaPoint Ventures, LLC (Bellevue, WA)
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 GSN Program Manager
IRIS
1979 Wai-Ying Chung Assoc. Research Prof.
Memphis State University
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
Harvey Mudd College, CA
1981 John Cipar Geophysicist
U.S. Air Force AFGL/LWH
1981 John E. Ebel Professor, Director,
Western Observatory
Boston College
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 Professor of Geophysics
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.
Sandia Nat. Lab.
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
Science Applications International Corp.
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 -
Australian National University
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 Assistant Professor
Queen's 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 Christof Stork -
Advanced Geophysics, 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 Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Geophysics
UC Los Angeles
1989 Richard Stead Tech. Staff
Scientific Applications International Corp.
1990 William W. Anderson -
Georgia Southwestern College
1990 Allison Bent -
Dept. of EMR, Canada
1990 J. Huw Davies Senior Lecturer
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 Adjunct Professor
San Diego State Univ.
1990 Gregory H. Miller -
-
1990 Hua-Wei Zhou Professor & Pevehouse Chair
Texas Tech University
1991 Robert Graves Project Seismologist
Woodward Clyde Consultants
1991 Lorraine Hwang -
-
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 Associate Professor of
Geosciences
Princeton
1992 Sally McGill Professor of Geological Science
Calif. State University, San Bernardino
1992 Catherine L. Smither -
-
1992 David J. Wald Geophysicist
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, 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 Assistant Professor in Geology
& Geosciences
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 Associate Professor
Arizona State University
1994 Xiaodong Song Assistant Professor of Seismology
& Research Scientist
University of Illinois & Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory
1994 Paul J. Tackley Professor
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 Weishi Huang Senior Software Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1995 Monica D. Kohler Assistant Researcher
UC Los Angeles
1995 Laura E. Jones Grad Student
University of New Mexico
1995 Shingo Watada Research Associate
ERI, University of Tokyo
1996 Sharon Kedar Assistant 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 Associate Professor
SUNY (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 Assistant Professor
Cal Poly Pomona
1999 Igor Sidorin Software Designer
Moscow, Russia
2000 Emily Brodsky Associate Professor of Geophysics
UC Santa Cruz
2000 Jeanne Hardebeck Geophysicist
U.S. Geological Survey
2001 Magali Billen Assistant Professor of Geophysics
UC Davis, CA
2001 Leo Eisner Senior Research Scientist
Schlumberger Cambridge Research, UK
2001 Julie Nazareth Lecturer
Cal Poly, Pomona
2001 Sidao Ni Exec. Dir., Earth and Space Sciences School
USTC, China
2002 Chen Ji Assistant Professor
UC Santa Barbara
2002 Anupama Venkataraman  
Exxon-Mobil
2003 Joseph Akins Researcher & Instructor
Caltech & Glendale Comm. College, CA
2003 Shengnian Luo  
Los Alamos National Lab
2003 Matthew Pritchard Assistant Professor
Cornell University
2003 Patricia Persaud Instructor of Physical Oceanography
Pasadena City College
2004 Javier Favela -
-
2004 Rowena Lohman Assistant Professor
Cornell University
2004 Brian Savage Assistant Professor
University of Rhode Island
2005 Jane Dmochowski -
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 California San Diego
2006 Debbie Smith Post-doc
U.C. Riverside
2006 Eh Tan Software Engineer
CIG (Caltech)
2007 Zhimeh Yan  
2007 Alex Song post-doc
Carnegie Institution of Washington
2007 Vala Hjorliefsdottir post-doc
Lamont
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