Group Officers:
Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Chair)
Senior Research Fellow, Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany; Chief Scientist / Research Professor, International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Professor, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France; Secretary-General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG); Immediate Past President, IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GeoRisk Commission); Board of Directors, International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE); Editor, Computational Seismology and Geodynamics (AGU book publications).
PhD in Physics and Mathematics (1990) and D.Sc. in Geophysics (1997), both Russian Academy of Sciences.
Main interests: Computational seismology and geodynamics, seismic hazard, modeling of extreme seismic events, geophysical risks.
http://www.mitp.ru/~aismail/
http://www.iugg.org/administration/2007vitaes/Ismailzadeh.pdf
Susan L. Cutter (Vice Chair)
Distinguished Professor and Director, Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, USA; MunichRe Foundation Chair in Social Vulnerability; US NSF Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education; Executive Editor: Environment.
PhD in Geography, University of Chicago (1976).
Main interests: vulnerability and resilience science, societal dimensions of hazards and disasters, spatial event and loss data.
http://www.cas.sc.edu/geog/facStaff/cutter.html
http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/
Ilya Zaliapin (Secretary)
Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Nevada, Reno, USA; Associate Editor: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Journal of Environmental Statistics.
PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences (1999).
Main interests: Seismic hazards and earthquake prediction, dynamics of seismicity, environmental transport on river networks, pattern formation and extreme events development in complex systems.
Executive Committee:
Servando De la Cruz-Reyna
Senior Research Professor, Institute of Geophysics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Scientist in Charge of the Department of Volcanology. Head of the National Scientific Committee on Geological Risks of the Ministry of the Interior (Mexico)
Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Kyoto, Japan
Main interests: Physical volcanology, physics of the Earth’s interior, fluid dynamics, geological risks
Harsh Gupta
Raja Ramanna Fellow, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, INDIA; Previously Secretary, Department of Ocean Development; Vice President, IUGG; President, GSI; President-Elect, AOGS; Fellow: TWAS, AGU, INSA, NASI.
PhD in Geophysics, University of Roorkee, (1970)
Main interests: Geophysics (Seismology), and its application to address problems of continents and oceans.
Yev Kontar
Senior Scientist/Section Head, Geophysics Section, Illinois State Geological Survey Division, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Executive Committee Member, Natural Hazards Society; Member of the Bureau, IUGG GeoRisk Commission; President, International Commission on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions; Member, joint AGU Focus Groups Fellowship committee.
DSc in Oceanography, Hydrology and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences (1985);
Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics, Moscow State Geological Prospecting University, Russia(1974).
Main interests: land-ocean geophysical risks assessment and analysis; development of new method of geophysical survey of saltwater-freshwater interface in the coastal zone, groundwater-surface water interactions/application of geophysics; geophysical applications for assessment and evaluation of coastal aquifers/water resources/pollution control.
http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/about-isgs/staff-dir/k/kontar.shtml
Hans N. Lechner, student representative
PhD Candidate at Michigan Technological University (Sep. 2011 - present)
M.S. Geology, Peace Corps Master’s International program,
Michigan Technological University (2010); BA Geography with geology minor, Humboldt State University (1998).
Main interests: Volcanic hazards, communication of risk, vulnerability assessment
of volcanic communities in Central America and the Caribbean.
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~hnlechne
Bruce D. Malamud
Reader of Natural and Environmental Hazards, King’s College London, UK; President: Natural Hazards Division of the European Geosciences Union; Scientific Programme Chair: European Geosciences Union 2010 General Assembly.
PhD in Geophysics, Cornell University (1998).
Main interests: Frequency-size distributions, persistence and time-series analyses of natural &
environmental hazards (landslides, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, heavy-metal contamination).
Implications of these to risk, erosion, ecology, etc. Confronting models with data. Complexity.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/geography/people/acad/malamud/
Richard J Murnane
Senior Research Scientist and RPI Program Manager, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Senior Vice President, Baseline Management Company, Inc.
PhD in Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University (1988).
Main interests: Natural hazards, catastrophe risk models, climate variability, extreme events.
http://w3.bios.edu/rpi/public/about/people/rmurnane/murnane0505.html
http://basemgt.com/exec_team.html
Roger A. Pielke Sr.
Senior Research Scientist, CIRES and Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science; ESD Advisory Committee Member, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN.
PhD in Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University (1973).
Main interests: Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions, Climate System Dynamics, Nonlinear Mathematical Study of Atmospheric and Climate Processes, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) Modeling, Mesoscale Modeling.
Roger A. Pielke Sr. is a member of the
EOS Editorial Advisory Board (Natural Hazards)
http://cires.colorado.edu/science/groups/pielke/pubs/
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/
Vasily Titov
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory; Vice Chair:
IUGG International Tsunami Commission.
PhD in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, University of Southern California (1997)
Main interests: Tsunami Hazard, Tsunami Forecast, wave modeling, long-wave studies.
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/
Gezahegn Yirgu
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia;
Dean, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Addis Ababa University;
Immediate Past President, Ethiopian Geoscience and Mineral Engineering Association;
Chairman, Ethiopian National Committee for the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE 2008);
Editor-in-Chief, SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science;
General Manager, Ethiopian Space Science Society
PhD in Geology (1990), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
Main interests: Volcanic petrology and geochemistry, Large Igneous Provinces,
rift volcanism and tectonics, volcanic hazards, geothermal geology, mineral resources
http://sc.aau.edu.et/earth_science
AGU Program Committee:
Yev Kontar
Senior Scientist/Section Head, Geophysics Section, Illinois State Geological Survey Division, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Executive Committee Member, Natural Hazards Society; Member of the Bureau, IUGG GeoRisk Commission; President, International Commission on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions; Member, joint AGU Focus Groups Fellowship committee.
DSc in Oceanography, Hydrology and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences (1985);
Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics, Moscow State Geological Prospecting University, Russia(1974).
Main interests: land-ocean geophysical risks assessment and analysis;
development of new method of geophysical survey of saltwater-freshwater interface in the coastal zone,
groundwater-surface water interactions/application of geophysics;
geophysical applications for assessment and evaluation of coastal aquifers/water resources/pollution control.
http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/about-isgs/staff-dir/k/kontar.shtml
Past officers:
Kelly Klima, student representative, 2010 - 2011
PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University; Researcher: Climate Decision Making Center, CMU
M.S. Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sci., MIT (2008),
M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT (2005), B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Caltech (2003)
Main interests: Fluid mechanics, the environment, tropical cyclones, and decision analysis.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~kklima/
Corné Kreemer, AGU Program Committee, 2009-2011
Research Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, USA; Participant: Global Earthquake Model project.
PhD in Earth Sciences, Stony Brook University (2001).
Main interests: Plate tectonics and crustal deformation, space-geodetic time-series analysis, lithospheric dynamics and geodynamics.
http://geodesy.unr.edu/cornekreemer.html
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