Carey Croneis Professor of Earth Science
Department of Earth Science MS-126
Rice University
| 07/16 - Present | Rice Energy and Environment Initiative Operations Committee | Rice University |
| 07/11 - 06/15 | Director, Rice DAVinCI Project | Rice University |
| 04/98 - Present | Co-Director, Rice Center for Computational Geophysics | Rice University |
| 07/96 - Present | Carey Croneis Professor, Department of Earth Science | Rice University |
| 07/98 - 06/11 | Chair, Department of Earth Science | Chair, Department of Earth Science, Rice University. |
| 07/94 - 06/96 | Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics | Rice University |
| 07/88 - 06/94 | Associate Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics | Rice University |
| 07/84 - 07/92 | Consultant for: Chevron Oil Field Research Company (84-92), ARCO Oil and Gas (87), Exxon (92), and Western Geophysical Research (85 & 89) | Chevron Oil, Arco Oil & Gas, Exxon and Western Geophysical Research |
| 07/84 - 07/88 | Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics | Rice University |
| 4/83 - 6/84 | Research Geophysicist | Gulf R&D Company |
| 1/82 - 1/83 | Consultant | Gulf Research & Development Company |
| 7/81 - 12/81 | Geophysical Aid | Gulf Research & Development Company |
| 6/80 - 9/80 | Research Geophysicist | Shell Development Co |
| 6/77 - 3/79 | Geophysicist: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA. Exchange Scientist to the U.S.S.R. | USGS; USSR |
| 11/73 - 5/76 | Research Assistant: Geology Department | University of South Carolina |
| 1984 | Geophysics;Thesis Title: Shear wave velocity structure of the lithosphere in northern California. | Stanford University |
| 1978 | Geophysics | Stanford University |
| 1976 | Geology | University of South Carolina |
| 2012 | External Review Committee, IRIS Data Management Center | |
| 2009 | PASSCAL Active Source Seismology Committee, Co-Chair | |
| 2006 - 2008 | IRIS-PASSCAL Standing Committee Chair | |
| 2004 - 2007 | OBSIP Oversight Committee | |
| 2003 - 2005 | IRIS Planning Committee | |
| 1998 - 2002 | IRIS Data Management System Steering Committee | |
| 1993 - 1996 | IRIS Executive Committee, Vice-Chairman | |
| 1987 - 1989 | IRIS Data Management Center Steering Committee |
| 2013, 2016 | External Review Committee, DoE, Seismic Source Characterization Project | |
| 2012 - 2014 | Guest Editor, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Special Issue on USArray | |
| 2011, 2015 | External Advisory Committee, Geophysics Department, Colorado School of Mines | |
| 2011 - Present | Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER), Executive Committee | |
| 2011 | Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER), Summer Program Organizer | |
| 2009, 2010 | Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER), Proposal Writing Committee | |
| 2010 | NSF Cooperative Math-Geosciences Panel | |
| 2010 - 2015 | Editorial Board, Solid Earth | |
| 2009 - 2014 | Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Seismology Working Group, Chair | |
| 2009, 2016 | Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Proposal Writing Committee | |
| 2007 - Present | Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Executive Committee | |
| 2008 - Present | External Advisory Committee, German Science Foundation: South Atlantic Special Research Project | |
| 2006, 2008,2010, 2011 | Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER) Workshop, Lecturer | |
| 2005 - Present | Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Seismology Working Group | |
| 2004 - 2006 | Scientific Program Committee, Backbone of the Americas, Geological Society of America | |
| 2001 - 2006 | NRC Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics | |
| 1997 - 2003 | USArray Steering Committee | |
| 1997 - 1999 | Ocean Bottom Seismology Steering Committee | |
| 1998 - 2001 | Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research | |
| 1994 - 1995 | Seismology Advisory Panel, Air Force Office of Scientific Research | |
| 1994 - 1997 | Geological Society of America, Geophysics Division Management Board; Chair 1996 | |
| 1989 - 1994 | Executive Committee, Acoustic Reverberation Special Research Program, ONR | |
| 1986 - 1989 | Associate Editor, Geophysics |
STATEMENT
My career started at about the time that IRIS was formed, and would have been vastly different without access to the seismic instrumentation and data access tools that IRIS provided. Before IRIS there was literally no seismic instrumentation available to a small institution like Rice. I attended an historic (and bitterly cold) meeting in Madison, Wisconsin during the winter of 1984 at which PASSCAL was founded. PASSCAL was soon merged with the nascent GSN to form IRIS. Starting with fairly modest funding in the late 1980’s IRIS has grown to be one of the most influential international community organizations in the Earth Sciences. Following a grass roots community initiative, IRIS and UNAVCO jointly fielded and have successfully operated EarthScope. Following this success, the seismological and geodetic communities now face the challenge of merging their facilities into a unified organization.
Each phase of growth within IRIS was debated at length within both the IRIS committee system and the seismological community. With guidance from the IRIS staff, the committee system has been successful at balancing resources in response to community needs, fostering innovation in instrumentation, data services and education, developing leadership within the community, vastly broadening the scope of the community IRIS serves, and educating the public about seismology, Earth Science, and science more generally. The latter is a particularly important task today. Over the course of IRIS’ history the organization has democratized seismology, set international standards for open data, and established new levels of international cooperation and resource sharing. Today the scientific challenges in seismology are as great as ever and the societal challenges are equally so, particularly for increasing diversity in our profession, and in the many levels of public education: This is an exciting time for seismology as well as for the IRIS organization. It is an honor to stand for election to the IRIS board.
