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TERRY WALLACE The Principal Associate Director of Science, Technology, and Engineering is responsible for all basic science programs at LANL, and coordinates the activities of the four science and engineering directorates. Terry Wallace brings strong science credentials and a track record as an effective science manager at LANL. During the period of 2005 to June 2006, Wallace was the Associate Director of Strategic Research, which encompassed LANL's science program offices and the five line divisions that implemented those programs and supported LANL's nuclear weapons, threat reduction, and energy security missions. He was also responsible for LANL's non-National Nuclear Security Administration Department of Energy programs, including basic science, energy technology, and environmental technology. Before becoming the Associate Director for Strategic Research, Wallace was the Division leader of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. Raised in Los Alamos, Wallace returned in 2003 after 20 years as a professor of geosciences and an associate in the applied mathematics program at the University of Arizona. In addition to teaching, he carried out research on global threat reduction, nonproliferation verification, and computational geophysics. During his academic career, he worked with LANL on nuclear test monitoring and threat reduction. in particular on interpreting the indications of nuclear testing by a foreign government. He has an international reputation in geosciences as applied to national security issues. Wallace holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in geophysics (California Institute of Technology) and B.S. degrees in geophysics and mathematics (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology). He is the author or coauthor of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications on seismology and tectonics, including ground-based nuclear explosion monitoring and forensic seismology. He also wrote a widely used textbook on seismology. Wallace is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and in 1992 he received the AGU's Macelwane Medal. Wallace has served as President of the Seismological Society of America, Chairman of the Incorporated Institutions for Research in Seismology, and authored the position paper for the American Geophysical Union on the verifiability of a comprehensive test ban treaty. He has testified before Congress on the comprehensive test ban and participated in numerous National Academy panels, including ones on research in support of comprehensive test ban monitoring. For 2000-2006 Wallace as the Chair on the National Research Council's Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics.  |
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