PAGER – Team Members
SEISMOLOGY
Harley M Benz
Position/Expertise: Scientist-in-Charge, NEIC; Research Seismologist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Development of improved source parameter methods (assocation/location techniques, improved location procedures, waveform modeling for mechanics and depth, rapid and robust magnitude computations)
Paul Earle
Position/Expertise: Geophysicist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Co-Principal Investigator
Daniel Garcia
Position/Expertise: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2009 - 2010
Role in PAGER: Ground Motion Prediction Research
Gavin Hayes
Position/Expertise: Seismologist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2009 - present
Role in PAGER: Fast finite fault modeling project, subduction zone geometry constraint (Slab 1.0), W-phase source inversion for tsunami earthquake discrimination.
Margaret Hopper
Position/Expertise: Seismologist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Shaking intensity assignments
Kristin Marano
Position/Expertise: Geophysicist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2007 - present
Role in PAGER: Deadly Earthquake Catalog, Earthquake Secondary Hazards Research
David Wald
Position/Expertise: Seismologist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics Department
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Co-Principal Investigator, Scientific Oversight
LANDSLIDES
Jonathan Godt
Position/Expertise: Research Physical Scientist - Landslide processes and hazards
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: Development of earthquake-induced landside estimates
ENGINEERING
Kishor Jaiswal
Position/Expertise: Civil Engineer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Development of empirical and semi-empirical earthquake casualty estimation models, global building inventory database and loss modeling framework for PAGER implementation
Nicolas Luco
Position/Expertise: Research Structural Engineer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2005 - present
Role in PAGER: Hazard and risk modeling
Keith Porter
Position/Expertise: Structural Engineer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: Unversity of Colorado at Boulder; SPA Risk LLC
Years on Project: 2006 - present
Role in PAGER: Develop loss models
PROGRAMMING
Mike Hearne
Position/Expertise: Lead PAGER developer/scientific and geo-spatial programming
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; Synergetics, Inc.
Years on Project: 2007 - present
Role in PAGER: Lead software developer for PAGER project
Kuo-wan Lin
Position/Expertise: Geophysicist
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2005 - present
Role in PAGER: Global ShakeMap
Steven Mathias
Position/Expertise: Web Developer
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2009 - present
Role in PAGER: Web developer for the PAGER project
Vince Quitoriano
Position/Expertise: Programmer
Location: Tucson, AZ
Affiliations: USGS
Years on Project: 2004 - present
Role in PAGER: ShakeMap development and operations
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Janice L Coffelt
Position/Expertise: Program Analyst
Location: Golden, CO
Affiliations: USGS; PMP
Years on Project: 2005 - present
Role in PAGER: Project management
COLLABORATORS
Trevor Allen
Position/Expertise: Earthquake Seismologist
Location: Canberra, Australia
Affiliations: Georisk Project, Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia
Years on Project: 2006 - 2008
Role in PAGER: Calibration of global earthquake hazard (e.g. ground motion modeling/evaluation and site response estimates) using ShakeMap methodology and development of products to support PAGER loss modeling efforts.
