Thorne Lay Explained
Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist.[1] He was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1956, and raised in El Paso, Texas. He is a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2]
Education
Lay received a B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1978, a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980, and a Ph.D. also from California Institute of Technology, in 1983. [3]
Awards and academic honors
- USTC Distinguished Lecture Series in Earth and Space Sciences, 2015
- IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer, 2015
- Star on the Mountain Award, City of El Paso, Texas, 2015
- Fessinger-Springer Memorial Lecture, University of Texas El Paso, 2015
- Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2014
- Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2014
- Harry Fielding Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America, 2014
- Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Gutenberg Lecturer of Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union, 2011
- Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009
- Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
- Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Science 2002
- Taiwan National Research Council Visiting Senior Scholar, 1997
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, 1992
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1991
- Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1991
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Thorne Lay Seismological Society of America. 2021-06-23. www.seismosoc.org.
- Web site: Thorne Lay. 2021-06-23. www.nasonline.org.
- Web site: People - UC Santa Cruz Seismology Laboratory. 2021-06-23. websites.pmc.ucsc.edu.
