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SSA member Tianqing Cao moved recently from the California Geological Survey to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
SSA member Utpal Dutta moved recently from the Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, to the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering, also at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
SSA Life member Anton Linder Hales, who joined the Society in 1947, died 11 December 2006 at the age of 95. He is best-known for his contributions to body-wave time travel studies to determine the structure of the Earth and his pioneering study of convection processes in the mantle. His many academic and research appointments included the University of Cape Town, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the Australian National University.
SSA Past President Thomas H. Heaton and SSA members Emile Okal, Georges Poupinet, and Douglas A. Weins recently were elected as 2007 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union. They were formally recognized on May 25 at the AGU meeting in Acapulco, Mexico.
SSA member Donghong Pei recently moved from the Nevada Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno, to Halliburton in Houston, Texas.
SSA member Junkee Rhie moved recently from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory to the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National University.
SSA member Robert Shcherbakov recently moved from the Center for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Davis, to the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.
Seismological Society of America board member Brian Tucker is the 2007 recipient of the George Brown Award for International Scientific Cooperation in recognition of his lifelong work to reduce death and injury caused by earthquakes in the world's most vulnerable communities. Tucker is founder and president of GeoHazards International (GHI), where he works with a global network of people to reduce the risks of earthquakes and natural disasters in impoverished countries.
SSA member Yoshifumi Yamamoto recently moved from Kajima Corporation to the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University.
SSA member Heather Wagner recently moved from teaching science at Framingham High School to teaching 7th- and 8th-grade science at Williams Middle School in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
SSA member Wen-che Yu recently moved from the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University to take a postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC.
SSA member Mary Lou Zoback recently received two Geological Society of America awards: the Arthur L. Day medal, for her research into the causes of earthquakes that strike along seismic faults; and GSA's Public Service Award, for her leadership in promoting earthquake preparedness in the San Francisco Bay Area. Zoback, until recently an employee at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, is now vice president for earthquake risk applications at Risk Management Solutions.
Your contributions of items for "Transitions" are most welcome. Please tell us about your awards, promotions, job changes, reorganizations, and retirements. Send announcements to SRL Editor Luciana Astiz at lastiz{at}ucsd.edu or UCSD Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 9500 Gilman Drive #0225, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225.
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