Professor
Department of Geoscience
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://geoscience.wisc.edu/geoscience/people/faculty/cliff-thurber/
| 1992 - Present | Professor of Geophysics | Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1989 - 1992 | Associate Professor of Geophysics | Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1986 - 1989 | Associate Professor of Geophysics | Department of Earth and Space Sciences, SUNY-Stony Brook |
| 1981 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Geophysics | Department of Earth and Space Sciences, SUNY-Stony Brook |
| 1976 - 1981 | Ph.D. in Geophysics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1971 - 1975 | A.B. in Physics | Cornell University |
| 1985 - Present | IRIS Institutional Representative (primary) | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2012 | Instructor | IRIS DS Advanced Studies Institute on Earthquake Location |
| 2002 | Chair | IRIS Nominations Committee |
| 2002 | Co-Organizer | IRIS Annual Workshop |
| 1999 - 2002 | Member | IRIS Executive Committee (now Board of Directors) |
| 1997 - 2001 | Member | IRIS Instrumentation Subcommittee |
| 1995 - 1999 | Member | IRIS PASSCAL Standing Committee |
| 1995 | Member | PASSCAL Instrument Scheduling Committee |
| 1993 | Session Co-Organizer | IRIS Annual Workshop |
| 1992 | Member | IRIS Nominations Committee |
| 1990 - 1992 | Member | PASSCAL Instrument Scheduling Committee |
| 1990 | Co-Organizer | IRIS Annual Workshop |
| 1988 - 1990 | Member | IRIS Executive Committee (now Board of Directors) |
| 1986 - 1988 | Secretary | IRIS Executive Committee (now Board of Directors) |
| 2014 - Present | Member | EarthScope Science Steering Committee |
| 2011 | Co-Chair | GeoPRISMS Implementation Workshop: Subduction Cycles and Dynamics |
| 2011 | Instructor | Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute |
| 2011 | Co-Convenor | GeoPRISMS Planning Workshop for the Alaska Primary Site |
| 2010 - 2012 | Member | GeoPRISMS Steering and Oversight Committee |
| 2009 - 2010 | Member | MARGINS Steering Committee |
| 1999 - 2010 | Associate Editor | Journal of Geophysical Research |
| 1992 | Member | DARPA Nuclear Monitoring Research Advisory Panel |
I am running for election to the IRIS Board of Directors because this is the most critical time for IRIS in recent years and, having "grown up" with IRIS over the last 30 years, my goal is to help guide IRIS so that it can continue to serve the seismological community for many years to come. I believe my years of involvement with IRIS, both on committees and as an instrumentation and data user, have prepared me well to serve on the Board of Directors once more. NSF has mandated that the "SAGE" facilities that are currently part of the overall IRIS Consortium be operated exclusively as facilities beginning in 2018. This means that IRIS needs to be restructured or in some ways reinvented in order to compete successfully for the facilities operations and in order that all the key non-facility aspects of IRIS (in particular the IRIS community itself) continue to flourish. IRIS is without doubt a stellar example of how the scientific community can manage facilities and develop a deeply integrated program that together have incredible synergy. Although I don't expect to be around 30 years from now, perhaps with our collective vision IRIS will be. It would be an honor to serve on the Board of Directors again and help chart the course of IRIS for the next few years and beyond.
