PAGER – Team Members

PAGER Team

  • Mike Hearne

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Vince Quitoriano

    Position/Expertise: Programmer

    Location: Tucson, AZ

    Affiliations: USGS

    Years on Project: 2004 - present

    Role in PAGER: ShakeMap development and operations

  • Bruce Worden

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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