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Candidate Statements 2007 SSA Board of Directors

	Rick Aster

 

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Principle fields: earthquake and volcano seismology; seismic imaging; instrumentation

In many ways these are extraordinary and promising times for seismology. As SSA begins its second century as a diverse, mature, and international society with a flagship set of publications, our field is undergoing an historic transition from data-poor to data-rich science. This development is attributable both to unprecedented and still-improving facilities, and also simply to the accruing time span of our discipline (e.g., in 2004 we obtained the first-ever global digital recordings of a magnitude 9+ earthquake). We are also making significant (although slower) community progress on essential computational capabilities for using these data via improving forward and inverse methodologies that incorporate diverse observables and more realistic physics and structures. These efforts must be sustained. However, while these are relatively good times for data and critical facilities, we are ironically facing a crunch in the essential NSF, DOE, USGS, and other research and educational funds that both support our core scientific enterprise and attract, train, and retain the next generation of seismologists. A principal emphasis of SSA must be to engage persuasively at the highest levels of government to sustain and increase research funding. These efforts should support core funding for seismology and engineering as well as for emerging multidisciplinary fields that can expand the contributions of seismology.

	Art Frankel

 

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Principal fields: seismic hazard assessment, earthquake ground motions

I would like to continue as a director of SSA so that I can further encourage links between scientific research and practical measures that reduce earthquake risk and increase public safety. I think this is a particularly exciting and fruitful time for . . . [Full Text of this Article]