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SCEC Organization (all at University of Southern California unless otherwise indicated)
Center Director: Thomas H. Jordan
Deputy Director: Greg Beroza
Stanford University
Associate Director for 
Administration:
John K. McRaney
Associate Director for 
Communication, Education, and Outreach:
Mark Benthien
Associate Director for 
Information Technology:
Phil Maechling
Planning and Project Coordinator: Tran Huynh
Research Contracts and Grants Coordinator: Karen Young
Education Programs Manager: Robert de Groot
Digital Products Manager: John Marquis
Research Programmers: Scott Callaghan
Sandarsh Kumar
Maria Liukis
Kevin Milner
Patrick Small
Systems Programmer: John Yu



SCEC Board of Directors
University of Southern California
Thomas H. Jordan, Chair
University of California, Irvine
Lisa Grant, Vice-Chair
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ralph Archuleta
University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Bird
California State University, Fullerton
David Bowman
United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Tom Brocher, liaison (non-voting) member
University of California, Santa Cruz
Emily Brodsky
University of Nevada, Reno
Jim Brune
San Diego State University
Steve Day
University of California, Riverside
James Dieterich
University of California, San Diego
Yuri Fialko
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom Herring
United States Geological Survey, Pasadena
Ken Hudnut, liaison (non-voting) member
California Institute of Technology
Nadia Lapusta
United States Geological Survey, Golden
Jill McCarthy, liaison (non-voting) member
Harvard University
Jim Rice
Stanford University
Paul Segall
Columbia University
Bruce Shaw



SCEC Planning Committee
Chair: Greg Beroza
Seismology: Egill Hauksson
Elizabeth Cochran
Tectonic Geodesy: Jessica Murray
Rowena Lohman
Earthquake Geology: Mike Oskin
James Dolan
Unified Structural Representation: John Shaw
Kim Olsen
Fault and Rupture Mechanics: Judith Chester
Ruth Harris
Crustal Deformation Modeling: Liz Hearn
Kaj Johnson
Lithospheric Architecture and Dynamics: Paul Davis
Thorsten Becker
Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability: Terry Tullis
Jeanne Hardebeck
Ground Motion Prediction: Brad Aagaard
Rob Graves
Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis: Paul Somerville
Nicolas Luco
Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation: Tom Rockwell
Kate Scharer
Working Group on
California Earthquake Probabilities:
Ned Field
Collaboratory for the
Study of Earthquake Predictability:
Thomas Jordan
Danijel Schorlemmer
Extreme Ground Motion: Tom Hanks
Community Modeling Environment: Phil Maechling



SCEC Advisory Council
Mary Lou Zoback (Chair) Risk Management Solutions
Gail Atkinson Carlton University
Roger Bilham University of Colorado
Lloyd Cluff Pacific Gas and Electric
Donna Eberhart-Phillips University of California, Davis
John Filson Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey
Jeffrey Freymuller University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute
James Goltz CalEMA
Patti Guatteri Swiss Reinsurance
Steve Mahin Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
Anne Meltzer Lehigh University
Dennis Mileti University of Colorado (Emeritus)
Kate Miller University of Texas at El Paso
Meghan Miller UNAVCO
Farzad Naeim John A. Martin & Associates
John Rudnicki Northwestern University
John Vidale University of Washington
Andrew Whittaker University of Buffalo




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