Feeds & DataPAGER - Team Members
Seismology
Harley M Benz
| Position/Expertise: | Scientist-in-Charge, NEIC; Research Seismologist |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | Development of improved source parameter methods (association/location techniques, improved location procedures, waveform modeling for mechanisms and depth, rapid and robust magnitude computations) |
| Years on project: | - |
Paul Earle
| Position/Expertise: | Geophysicist |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Years on project: | 2004 - present |
Gavin Hayes
| Position/Expertise: | Seismologist |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; Synergetics Inc. |
| Role in PAGER: | Fast finite fault modeling project, subduction zone geometry constraint (Slab 1.0), W-phase source inversion for tsunami earthquake discrimination |
| Years on project: | 2007 - present |
Margaret Hopper
| Position/Expertise: | Seismologist |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| ffiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | Shaking intensity assignments |
| Years on project: | 2006 - present |
Alicia Hotovec
| Position/Expertise: | Geophysics Graduate Student |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics Department |
| Role in Pager: | ShakeMap Calibration Events |
| Years on project: | 2006 - present |
Kristin Marano
| Position/Expertise: | Geophysics Graduate Student |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics Department |
| Role in Pager: | Deadly Earthquake Catalog, Earthquake Secondary Hazard Research |
| Years on project: | 2007 - present |
David Wald
| Position/Expertise: | Seismologist |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics Department |
| Role in PAGER: | Co-Principal Investigator, Scientific Oversight |
| Years on project: | 2004 - present |
Engineering
Jonathan Godt
| Position/Expertise: | Research Physical Scientist - Landslide processes and hazards |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | Development of earthquake-induced landslide estimates |
| Years on project: | 2004 - present |
Kishor Jaiswal
| Position/Expertise: | Civil Engineer |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; Synergetics Inc. |
| Role in Pager: | Development of empirical and semi-empirical earthquake casualty estimation models, global building inventory database and loss modeling framework for PAGER implementation |
| Years on project: | 2006 - present |
Nicolas Luco
| Position/Expertise: | Research Structural Engineer |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | Hazard and risk modeling |
| Years on project: | 2005 - present |
Keith Porter
| Position/Expertise: | Structural Engineer |
| Location:< | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | University of Colorado at Boulder; SPA Risk LLC |
| Role in PAGER: | Develop loss models |
| Years on project: | 2006 - present |
Programming
Mike Hearne
| Position/Expertise: | Lead PAGER developer/scientific and geo-spatial programming |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; Synergetics, Inc. |
| Role in PAGER: | Lead software developer for PAGER project |
| Years on project: | 2007 - present |
Kuo-wan Lin
| Position/Expertise: | Geophysicist |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | Global ShakeMap |
| Years on project: | 2005 - present |
Vince Quitoriano
| Position/Expertise: | Programmer |
| Location: | Tucson, AZ |
| Affiliations: | USGS |
| Role in PAGER: | ShakeMap development and operations |
| Years on project: | 2004 - present |
Management
Jan Coffelt
| Position/Expertise: | Program Analyst |
| Location: | Golden, CO |
| Affiliations: | USGS; PMP |
| Role in PAGER: | Project management |
| Years on project: | 2005 - present |
Collaborators
Trevor Allen
| Position/Expertise: | Earthquake Seismologist |
| Location: | Canberra, Australia |
| Affiliations: | Georisk Project,Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia |
| Role in PAGER: | Calibration of global earthquake hazard (e.g., ground motion modeling/evaluation and site response estimates) using ShakeMap methodology and development of products to support PAGER loss modeling efforts |
| Years on project: | 2006 - 2008 |
