Richard Aster
American seismologist
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- PhD Geophysics Stanford University
- Masters Geophysics Stanford University
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Davis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard C. Aster is an American seismologist and is Professor of Geophysics and Department Head of Geosciences at Colorado State University. Aster's research includes seismic imaging, volcano seismology, microseismicity, seismic noise, seismic instrumentation, crustal and mantle seismology, fluvial seismology and cryoseismology. Dr. Aster served as president of the Seismological Society of America from 2009-2010. and as an elected board member of the society from 2008-2014. In 1997 Aster founded the New Mexico Tech IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center , which supports seismological studies around the world under the management of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology with primary funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy, and served as the first Principal Investigator of the facility through 2013. Aster Glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica is named after Dr. Aster, who received the NSF Antarctic Services Medal for fieldwork in Antarctica in 1999. Aster was awarded the Distinguished Research Award by New Mexico Tech in 2010 and the university's Faculty Award in 2005. Aster was featured in the 2011-2012 BBC Horizon production The Core. Dr. Aster is a member of the Seismological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the International Glaciological Society.
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