Interim Department Chair and Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Michigan State University
https://ees.natsci.msu.edu/people/faculty/freymueller-jeffrey/
| 2021 - Present | Interim Department Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Michigan State University |
| 2018 - Present | Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Michigan State University |
| 2004 - 2018 | Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geological Sciences | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 1999 - 2004 | Associate Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geological Sciences | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 1995 - 1999 | Assistant Research Professor of Geophysics | Geophysical Institute |
| 1991 - 1995 | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Stanford University |
| 1991 | Ph. D. (Geophysics) | University of South Carolina |
| 2014 - 2015 | Chair, Transportable Array Advisory Committee |
| 2019 - Present | Member, Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics | National Academies |
| 2018 - 2019 | Organizer, Re-examining our Grand Challenges in Geodesy | Workshop and Report |
| 2017 - 2018 | Chair, UNAVCO Board of Directors | UNAVCO |
| 2015 - 2017 | Member, UNAVCO Board of Directors | UNAVCO |
| 2015 - 2019 | Director | EarthScope National Office |
| 2015 | Official USA Delegate | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly |
| 2011 - 2017 | Chair | US National Committee for the IUGG |
| 2010 - 2013 | Chair | Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Advisory Council |
| 2010 - 2014 | Member, USGS Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee | USGS |
| 2010 | Co-Editor, Revised EarthScope Science Plan | |
| 2009 | Member, Organizing Committee for the Workshop for an EarthScope Science Plan | |
| 2002 - 2010 | Member | Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Advisory Council |
| 2000 | Chair, Second Plate Boundary Observatory Workshop Organizing Committee | |
| 1999 - 2000 | Member, EarthScope Working Group | |
| 1999 - 2002 | Member, Plate Boundary Observatory Steering Committee |
I am a leader in the field of geodesy, and I use GPS to make highly precise measurements of movement on Earth’s surface. My research has covered a wide range of topics including plate tectonics and plate boundary zones, earthquakes and fault dynamics, the continuing rebound of the Earth’s surface from the melting of ice-age glaciers, inflation and deflation of volcanoes, and interpreting how changing water and ice levels deform the Earth. Although not a seismologist per se, I am an earthquake scientist (among other things) and I have a broad perspective on the fields of science that are the focus of the IRIS and UNAVCO communities. I have twice been the Chair of the UNAVCO Board of Directors (once back in the late 1990s before the current corporation), and I was the Director of the EarthScope National Office from 2015 until the end of the EarthScope program. As someone who was involved in the EarthScope program from even before the moment that it was named, it is really a pleasure to see the EarthScope name continue into the future in the form of the EarthScope Consortium, Inc.
The coming years will be critical for the future development of the seismological and geodetic communities in the US, as we need to join forces and merge our disciplinary-focused organizations into a single, broader entity. This will be a major challenge, as nothing can really stay the same, from our own conception of “the community” to details of our governance structures and practices. Although I have only done a small amount of service specifically for IRIS, I have had the opportunity to work with IRIS leadership over many years as a community member and as a representative of UNAVCO or the EarthScope program, so I have a good sense for how IRIS has worked traditionally. I think my combination of service to UNAVCO, IRIS, and EarthScope gives me a unique perspective and experience at this critical time. If elected to the IRIS Board, I will work to make the coming merger as smooth as possible and work to build a shared sense of community ownership of the combined facility for the entire merged community.
