For more than 15 years, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology and the Seismological Society of America are pleased to offer fascinating non-technical presentations on earthquake science topics to general audiences across the US. The EarthScope/SSSA Distinguished Lectureship Program teams with your established public speaker series or program, including radio and TV shows, to coordinate scheduling and logistics.
Each speaker is an expert in his/her specific research area and is skilled in effectively communicating new and exciting findings to the public. Whether virtual or in-person, our speakers are available to share his/her expertise in a variety of delivery modes such as panel discussions, conversations/interviews, storytelling, or traditional talks with Q&A, and will tailor his/her presentation to your audience and event.
| Year | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Dr. William Wilcock | Whale Seismology |
| 2021 | Dr. Guoqing Lin | The 2018 Kīlauea Volcano Eruption: Expected or a Surprise and What Have We Learned? |
| 2021 | Dr. Ben Holtzman | Seismology with your Ears: Listening to Patterns in Tectonic, Volcanic and Human-induced Earthquakes |
| 2020 | Dr. Sarah Minson | “Imminent Shaking": What Kind of Earthquake Warning is Possible? |
| 2020 | Dr. Ross S. Stein | How the Gold Rush and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Enabled Us to Divine our Seismic Future |
| 2019 | Dr. Susan Hough | What Past Earthquakes Tell Us About Future Earthquake Hazard: Facts & Fake Facts |
| 2019 | Dr. Arthur Rodgers | Forecasting Ground Shaking from Earthquakes Using Supercomputers |
| 2018 | Dr. Katie Keranen | Induced Earthquakes: Experimenting Unintentionally |
| 2018 | Dr. Frederik Simons | Through the Ocean to the Mantle: Under the Seas with a Fleet of Floating Seismic Robots |
| 2017 | Dr. John Vidale | A Tale of Three Pacific Northwest Temblors: One Big, One Deep and One Direct Hit |
| 2017 | Dr. Stephen McNutt | Shaking and Baking: Using Seismology to Study Volcanoes |
| 2016 | Dr. Justin Rubinstein | Yes, Humans Really Are Causing Earthquakes |
| 2016 | Dr. Caroline Beghein | From Plate Tectonics to Deep Earth Dynamics: A Seismological Journey Inside the Earth |
| 2015 | Dr. Thorne Lay | A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes and What We are Learning From Them |
| 2015 | Dr. Doug Wiens | Fire and Ice: Volcanoes, Earth Structure, and the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| 2014 | Dr. Meredith Nettles | Glacial Earthquakes: Using Seismic and GPS Observations to Map Changes in Glaciers and Ice Sheets Worldwide |
| 2014 | Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero | Earth's Cocktail Party: Deciphering the Physics of Earthquakes With Networks of Seismic Arrays |
| 2013 | Dr. Lara Wagner | Imaging the Ancient Margin: How the Southeastern United States Was Built (And Why You Should Care) |
| 2013 | Dr. Gavin Hayes | Mitigating Disasters: Earthquake Response in the 21st Century |
| 2012 | Dr. Miaki Ishii | Dissecting Giant Earthquakes: Things We Didn't Know |
| 2012 | Dr. Gregory Beroza | The Tortoise and the Hare: Slow vs Fast Earthquakes |
| 2011 | Dr. Wayne D. Pennington | Preparing for the Future: Scientific and Humanitarian Lessons from the Haiti and Japan earthquakes |
| 2011 | Dr. Beatrice Magnani | The New Madrid Earthquakes Two Hundred Years Later: What Have We Learned About Earthquakes at the Center of Tectonic Plates? |
| 2010 | Dr. Brian Stump | Forensic Seismology and Nucler Testing: The Detective Work of Seismologists |
| 2010 | Dr. Stephen Malone | Predicting Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions: What Can and Can't Now Be Done |
| 2009 | Dr. Aaron A. Velasco | Can a Large Earthquake in Another Country Cause One in Your Backyard? |
| 2009 | Dr. Richard C. Aster | Taking Earth's Pulse and Temperature Using Seismology: Roaring Oceans and Singing Icebergs |
| 2008 | Dr. Cliff Frohlich | Deep Earthquakes and the Secret of Seismology |
| 2008 | Dr. Uri ten Brink | Peace and Science in the Middle East |
| 2007 | Dr. Anne Sheehan | Seeing Beneath Mt. Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes |
| 2007 | Dr. Brian Atwater | The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 - A Trans-Pacific Detective Story |
| 2006 | Dr. Mary Lou Zoback | The 1906 Earthquake - Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and Future Directions |
| 2006 | Dr. Ed Garnero | Vibrations From the Deep: Deciphering the Birth and Death of the Earth's Surface |
| 2006 | Dr. Seth Stein | Giant Earthquakes: Why, Where, When, and What We Can Do |
| 2005 | Dr. Michael Wysession | Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and a Modern Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| 2005 | Dr. Susan Hough | The Very Long Reach of Very Large Earthquakes |
| 2004 | Dr. David E. James | Revealing the Mysteries of the Earth's Deep Interior: Plates, Plumes, and the Birth of Modern Seismology |
| 2004 | David Wald | Rapid Earthquake Information: Citizen Science and New Tools for Emergency Response |
| 2003 | Dr. Roger Bilham | Death and Construction: Earthquakes on an Urban Planet |
| 2003 | Dr. Walter Mooney | The Discovery of the Earth: The Quest to Understand the Interior of our Planet |
