Thorne Lay

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[3]
  • 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

References

  1. ^ "Thorne Lay | Seismological Society of America". www.seismosoc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  2. ^ "Thorne Lay". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  3. ^ a b "People - UC Santa Cruz Seismology Laboratory". websites.pmc.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-23.