GEER Organization

Charter

By-Laws

Steering Committee:

• Jonathan D. Bray, PhD, University of California at Berkeley, Chair of GEER
• David Frost, Georgia Institute of Technology, Co-Chair of GEER
• Ellen Rathje, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Co-Chair of GEER
• Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California
• Robert Kayen, USGS, Menlo Park, CA.
• William Lettis, Engineering Geologist
• Nick Sitar, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
• Thomas Leslie Youd, PhD, Brigham Young University

Advisory Panel:

• David Bloomquist, Ph.D., P.E., University of Florida  (specialist in sensor development and deployment, the use of LIDAR & geotechnical engineer)
• Roger Borcherdt, Ph.D., USGS, Menlo Park, CA (USGS & seismologist)
• Ross Boulanger, Ph.D., P.E., University of California, Davis  (geotechnical engineer)
• Lloyd Cluff, Director, Geoscience Dept., Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (former Chairman of the California Seismic Safety Commission geologist)
• Melba Crawford, Ph.D., Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing, Purdue University  (satellite imaging expert & mechanical engineer)
• Robert E. Crippen, Ph.D., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (NASA satellite imaging expert)
• Curtis Edwards, P.E., Vice President, Pountney Psomas, San Diego, CA (Chair of EQ Investigations of TCLEE)
• Steven L. Kramer, Ph.D., University of Washington (geotechnical engineer)
• Robert Hanson, Ph.D., University of Michigan  (structural engineer)
• Leslie F. Harder, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., California Department of Water Resources (State of Calif. & geotechnical engineer)
• William T. Holmes, S.E., Rutherford & Chekene (Chair of the EERI LFE Advisory Com. & structural engineer)
• Thomas L. Holzer, Ph.D., USGS, Menlo Park, CA  (USGS & geologist)
• I.M. Idriss, Ph.D., University of California, Davis  (geotechnical engineer)
• Richard Jay Love, S.E., Principal, Degenkolb Engineers (Past-Chair of the EERI LFE Advisory Com. & structural engineer)
• James R. Martin, II, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute  (geotechnical engineer)
• Richard S. Olsen, Ph.D., P.E., U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center, WES site, Vicksburg, MS  (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers & geotechnical engineer)
• Thomas D. O' Rourke, Ph.D., Cornell University  (President of EERI)
• Charles Scawthorn, Ph.D., Kyoto University (structural engineer/lifelines)
• Raymond B. Seed, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (geotechnical engineer)
• Paul Somerville, Ph.D., Principal Seismologist, URS Corporation  (Southern California Earthquake Center & seismologist)
• Jonathan P. Stewart, Ph.D., P.E., University of California, Los Angeles (EERI LFE Advisory Com. & geotechnical engineer)
• Kathleen Tierney, Ph.D., Director, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware  (EERI LFE Advisory Com. & social scientist)
• Harry Yeh, Ph.D., Oregon State University (tsunami researcher)

Recorder:

• Ben Mason, Graduate Student, University of California at Berkeley

Roster of Additional Regular Members:

• Donald Anderson, CH2M Hill
• Ronald Andrus, Ph.D., Clemson University
• Haydar Arslan, Ph.D., Blackhawk Geo
• Scott Ashford, Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
• Domniki Asimaki, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Juan Baez, Advanced Geosolutions Inc. (AGI)
• Steven Bartlett, Ph.D., University of Utah
• Manuel Berberian, Ph.D., Najarian Associates
• Julian Bommer, Ph.D., Imperial College London
• Nien-Yin Chang, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Denver
• Ryan Cole, IGES Inc.
• Christopher Conkle, P.E., Geosyntec Consultants
• Pedro de Alba, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
• Scott Deaton, Dataforensics
• Jason DeJong, Ph.D., University of California at Davis
• Stephen Dickenson, Ph.D., Oregon State University
• Jennifer Donahue, University of California at Berkeley
• Matt Evans, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• Allison Faris, Ph.D., Exponent
• Jim French, Geomatrix Consultants Inc.
• Hermann Fritz, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Sarah Gassman, Ph.D., University of South Carolina
• Robert Gilbert, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• Ramin Golesorkhi, Treadwell & Rollo, Inc.
• Marte Gutierrez, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
• Youssef Hashash, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Sam Helwany, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• Laureano Hoyos, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
• Hsein Juang, Ph.D., Clemson University
• Annie Kammerer, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Edward Kavazanjian, Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Keith Kelson, William Lettis & Associates
• Alan Kropp, Alan Kropp & Associates
• Christian Ledezma, University of California at Berkeley
• Ronaldo Luna, Ph.D., University of Missouri at Rolla
• Edmund Medley, Ph.D., Geosyntec Consultants
• Jay Meegoda, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Christopher Meehan, Ph.D. University of Delaware
• Martha Merriam, Caltrans
• Chin Man Mok, Geomatrix Consultants Inc.
• Robb Moss, Ph.D., California Polytechnic State Institute at San Luis Obispo
• Vincent Murphy
• Abrahams Mwasha, Ph.D., University of West Indies
• Robert Nigbor, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
• Guney Olgun, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
• Scott Olson, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Akin Onalp, Ph.D., Istanbul Kultur University
• Valeria Pascucci, Ph.D., Arup
• Ken Pattermann, US Army Core of Engineers
• Juan Pestana, Sc.D., University of California at Berkeley
• Shahram Pezeshk, Ph.D., University of Memphis
• Mihail Popescu, Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
• Daniel Pradel, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
• Anand Puppala, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
• Richard Ray, Ph.D., University of South Carolina
• Glenn Rix, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Peter Robertson, Ph.D., Gregg In Situ, Inc.
• Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, Ph.D., Washington State University
• Kyle Rollins, Ph.D., Brigham Young University
• Rodolfo Sancio, Ph.D., Golder Associates Inc.
• Radhey Sharma, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
• Timothy Stark, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Stein Sture, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
• Beena Sukumaran, Ph.D., Rowan University
• Muhannad Suleiman, Ph.D., Iowa State University
• Robert Sydnor, California Geological Survey
• Aurelian Trandafir, Ph.D., University of Utah
• Xavier Vera-Grunauer, CVA Consulting Group
• Robbie Warner, GeoLogic Associates
• Joseph Wartman, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Mark Yashinsky, Caltrans
• Allen Yourman, Diaz Yourman & Associates
• Xiong Yu, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
• Zia Zafir, Kleinfelder
• Dimitrios Zekkos, Ph.D., Geosyntec Consultants
• Thomas Zimmie, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute