Dr. John E. Ebel
By WXedge Staff on July 29, 2012, 6:00am
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John Edward Ebel, Ph.D.
Weston Observatory, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Weston, MA 02493
tel. (617) 552-8300; fax. (617) 552-8388; home (508) 651-2596
email: ebel@bc.edu
Education:
A. B. Harvard, 1975 (Physics)
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1981 (Geophysics)
Professional Experience:
Professor of Geophysics, Boston College 1981 to present
(Asst. Prof., 1981-1986; Assoc. Prof., 1986-1994; Prof. 1994-present)
Assistant Director, Weston Observatory 1981 to 1993
Director, Weston Observatory 1993 to present
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Uni. Karlsruhe, West Germany 1986-1987
Member, Seism. Risk Anal. Subcomm., Mass. Civil Def. Agen. 1981 to 1990
Board of Directors, Inc. Res. Inst. in Seism. (IRIS) 1985 to 2005
Member of New Eng. Seism. Advis. Coun. (NESAC) 1985 to 1991
Chairman 1988 to 1991
Member, Build. Seism. Saf. Coun. Seism. Haz. Map. Subcomm. 1989 to 1994
Member, Eastern Section, Seismological Society of America 1979 to present
(Secretary, 1989-1991; Vice-Chair, 1991-1993; Chairm., 1993-1995)
Editor in Chief, Seismological Research Letters 1994 to 2001
Member, Pub. Comm., Seismological Society of America 1992 to 2010
Member, Seism. Haz. Assess. Panel, Nat. Res. Coun. 1992 to 1996
Member, N. Y. State Low-Level Rad. Waste Disp. Pan.,
National Research Council 1993 to 1996
German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship,
Karlsruhe, Germany 1997
Secretary, Seismology Section, Am. Geophys. U. 2006 to 2008
Member, Board of Directors, Seismological Society 2000 to 2006
of America
Member, Edit. Comm., EOS, published by the American 2008 to 2010
Geophysical Union
Awards:
Jesuit Seismological Association Award, presented by the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America, 2003
Distinguished Service to the SSA Award, presented by the Seismological Society of America, 2004
Professional Societies:
American Geophysical Union
Seismological Society of America
Eastern Section, Seismological Society of America
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (affiliate member)
Research and Professional Activities:
John E. Ebel is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College, and he is the Director of Boston College's Weston Observatory. Dr. Ebel received an A.B. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1981. Since 1981 he has been a member of the geophysics faculty at Boston College and has also carried out research at Weston Observatory. He is a past Chairman of the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America and of the New England Seismic Advisory Council, and he has been meeting program chairman and secretary of the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union. He also has been a member of two National Research Council panels on studies concerning seismic hazard and low-level radioactive waste siting. He served as editor-in-chief of Seismological Research Letters, published by the Seismological Society of America, from 1994 to 2001. From 2008-2010 he was a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal EOS, published by the American Geophysical Union.
Dr. Ebel's research interests are in the areas of earthquake hazard, earthquake source mechanisms, earthquake prediction, wave propagation studies and determination of lithospheric structure. Since 1981 he has been in charge of the New England Seismic Network of Weston Observatory of Boston College. This network, currently comprised of seismic stations that span the six New England states, is used to detect, locate, catalog and study all earthquakes that occur in New England and vicinity. Dr. Ebel's research has focused on studying the causes and effects of earthquakes in New England and vicinity, although he has also published papers on earthquake activity in other parts of the eastern United States and Canada, California, Europe, Mexico and the southwest Pacific. He also has conducted extensive research on methods for earthquake hazard computation and earthquake forecasting. Dr. Ebel has published one book and over 60 scientific papers, and he has presented over 150 professional talks on his research work, along with numerous technical reports submitted to government agencies or private firms. He has been a consultant to a number of private companies and government agencies, including Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, on seismic hazard and nuclear test ban treaty monitoring issues. He has been a consultant on seismic hazard for over 20 major engineering projects such as highway bridges, LNG tanks, dams and other critical structures in the United States, the Bahamas, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jordan, Puerto Rico, Chile and Tunisia.
Earthquake resources:
www2.bc.edu/~kafka
www.bc.edu/westonobservatory
aki.bc.edu
earthquake.usgs.gov
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