PAGER – Team Members
PAGER Team
Mike Hearne
Position/Expertise: Programmer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2007 - present
Role in PAGER: Lead software developer
Kishor Jaiswal
Position/Expertise: Civil Engineer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Development of empirical and semi-empirical earthquake casualty estimation models, global building inventory database and loss modeling framework
Kristin Marano
Position/Expertise: Geophysicist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2007 - present
Role in PAGER: Operations/Response, Project Oversight, Deadly Earthquake Catalog, Earthquake Secondary Hazards Research
David Wald
Position/Expertise: Seismologist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics Department
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Principal Investigator, Scientific Oversight
Global ShakeMap
Daniel Garcia
Position/Expertise: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2009 - present
Role in PAGER: Ground Motion and Intensity Prediction Research
Kuo-wan Lin
Position/Expertise: Geophysicist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2005 - present
Role in PAGER: Global ShakeMap oversight and operations
Vince Quitoriano
Position/Expertise: Programmer
Location: Tucson, AZ
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: ShakeMap development and operations
Bruce Worden
Position/Expertise: Geophysicist, Programmer
Location: Pasadena, CA
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2007 - present
Role in PAGER: ShakeMap Research and Development
NEIC Operation
Harley M Benz
Position/Expertise: Scientist-in-Charge, NEIC
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Coordination of ANSS and NEIC realtime operations
Paul Earle
Position/Expertise: Director of Operations, NEIC
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Coordination of NEIC realtime operations
Gavin Hayes
Position/Expertise: Seismologist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2009 - present
Role in PAGER: Fast finite fault modeling project, Slab 1.0, W-phase source inversion
USGS Collaborators
Jonathan Godt
Position/Expertise: Research Physical Scientist - Landslide processes and hazards
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Development of earthquake-induced landside estimates
Nicolas Luco
Position/Expertise: Research Structural Engineer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2005 - present
Role in PAGER: Structures and risk modeling
External Collaborators
Trevor Allen
Position/Expertise: Earthquake Seismologist
Location: Canberra, Australia
Affiliations: Georisk Project, Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Calibration of global earthquake hazards (e.g. ground motion and intensity modeling/evaluation)
Emily So
Position/Expertise: Research Civil Engineer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2010 - present
Role in PAGER: Development of casualty estimation models
Georgia Cua
Position/Expertise: Civil Engineer, Geophysicist
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Affiliations: ETH Zurich
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Ground motion and intensity research and development, ShakeMap
Keith Porter
Position/Expertise: Structural Engineer
Location: Denver, CO
Affiliations: Unversity of Colorado at Boulder; SPA Risk LLC
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Vulnerability and loss model development
Dina D'Ayala
Position/Expertise: Civil Engineer
Location: Bath, United Kingdom
Affiliations: University of Bath; EERI
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Vulnerability and loss model development, EERI World Housing Encyclopedia/PAGER oversight
Marjorie Greene
Position/Expertise: Project Manager
Location: Oakland, CA
Affiliations: EERI
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: EERI World Housing Encyclopedia/PAGER oversight