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Professional Organizations, Activities, and Honors 

Richard C. Aster, Professor of Geophysics

Honors

  • National Science Foundation Antarctic Service Medal, 1999.
  • New Mexico Tech Faculty Award, 2005.
  • New Mexico Tech Distinguished Research Award, 2010.
  • IRIS/SSA National Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker, 2009-2010.
  • Elected to Seismological Society of America Board of Directors, 2008-2011.

    Organizational Memberships and Activities

  • Seismological Society of America

    • Associate Editor, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1997-2000)
    Member (1986- )
    Board of Directors (2008-2011)
    President (2009-2011)

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics

    • Member, Advisory Board External Committee (2006-2007)

  • GeoHazards International

    • Member (2002- )
  • American Geophysical Union

    • Member (1986- )
    Comittee on Public Affairs (2006- )

  • Geological Society of America

    • Member (2007 -)

  • Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)


    • Advisory Committee Member (2005- )

  • Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology


    • Institutional Representative and Board Member, NM Tech (1991- 2007)
    IRIS Education and Outreach Standing Committee (2001-2006)
    Chair, IRIS Education and Outreach Standing Committee (2002-2006)
    Coordinating Committee (2002-2006)
    PASSCAL Standing Committee (non-voting) (1999- )
    Principal Investigator, IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center (1998- )
    Principal Investigator, IRIS EarthScope USArray Array Operations Facility (2003- )
    International Working Group (2006-2009)
    GLISN (Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network) Science Advisory Committee (2010 - )
    Chair, IRIS Data Management System Standing Committee (2012-2015)

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science

    • Member (2000- )

     

     

  • The Explorers Club


    • Fellow (2003- )

     

    Conference and Other Activities

    Guest Editor, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, (with Lees, J., and Neuberg, N.), Broadband Seismic and Acoustic Observations of Volcanic Seismicity, 2000.

    Great Basin Region Evolution and Kinematics (GreatBREAK) Workshop, Organizing Committee (2004).

    Rocky Mountain EarthScope Workshops, co-P.I. (2004-2006).

    EarthScope National Meeting, Meeting co-chair and Organizing Committee (March, 2005).

    EarthScope Imaging Workshops, co-P.I. (2006-2008 ).

     
    Created: ( Monday, 26 September 2011 11:15 )
    Last Updated: ( Monday, 16 January 2012 15:58 )