FOCUS SPEAKER:
Lucy Jones
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 About
Lucy Jones
Lucy Jones is Scientist-in-charge of the USGS earthquake
program in southern California, where she leads the Pasadena
office of the USGS and coordinates earthquake research funded
by the USGS in southern California. She is a commissioner
of the Seismic Safety Commission of the State of California,
advising the governor and legislature on seismic safety, and
is past chair of the Steering Committee of the California
Integrated Seismic Network. Jones, a seismologist with the
USGS since 1983, has authored over 50 papers on research seismology
with primary interest in the physics of earthquakes, foreshocks
and earthquake hazard assessment, and the seismotectonics
(seismogenic geologic structures) of southern California.
She received a Bachelor´s degree from Brown University, Rhode
Island, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a graduate student, Jones was the first American scientist
to work in China after normalization of relations in 1979,
and spent twelve months at the State Seismological Bureau
in Beijing between 1979 and 1983. She has received numerous
awards, including the Alquist Award from the California Earthquake
Safety Foundation (2001), Founder´s Day Award from the La
Cañada PTA (2000), Woman of the Year from the Muses of the
California Science Museum (1999), and Women Making History
1993 from Senator Barbara Boxer.
Source: http://www.usgs.gov/solutions/earthquake_monitoring.html#bios
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