Office: MSEC 354
Phone: (575) 835-6661
Fax: (575) 835-6436
Email: snelson at ees.nmt.edu

PhD Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 2001
MS Geophysics, University of Texas at El Paso, 1998
BS Geology, California State University at Hayward, 1995

• Research Interests
• Teaching
• Publications
• Students

Dr. Snelson received her B.S from California State University at Hayward in 1995. Following graduation, she started her M.S in geophysics at the University of Texas at El Paso working on the Deep Probe project. While at UTEP she worked, as an intern, for Amoco in 1996 studying basin structures using gravity and magnetic data in offshore Angola. She finished her M.S. in 1998 and stayed on at UTEP to work on her Ph.D. Her dissertation includes a seismic hazard investigation using seismic refraction data in the Seattle basin, Washington State and a deep crustal project using seismic refraction data to study the crustal evolution of the Southern Rocky Mountains. During her graduate studies, she had the opportunity to travel extensively around the western U.S., Ireland, and central Europe for fieldwork. She joined the faculty at the University of Nevada Las Vegas from 2002-2007 during which her research focused on seismic hazard analysis of the southern Nevada. Cathy recently joined the faculty in August 2007.

Honors and Awards

2003 DOE Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Recipient
2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Recipient

Professional Affiliations

Adjunct Faculty - UNLV Geoscience Department
Adjunct Faculty - UNLV Civil & Environemtal Engineering Department
Adjunct Faculty - UNLV Water Resource Management Program
Affiliated Faculty - Nevada Seisomological Laboratory

Professional Society Memberships

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG)
• Geological Society of America (GSA)
• Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS)
• International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE)
• National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE)
• Sigma Xi
• Seismological Society of America (SSA)
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)