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Michael W. Hamburger

Professor of Geological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
IU Bloomington

Interests:

Southeast Asia, earthquakes, geology, land slides, satellites, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions

Education:

• B.A. at Wesleyan University, 1975
• M.S. at Cornell University, 1982
• Ph.D. at Cornell University, 1086

Background:

Research interests: seismotectonics, earthquake prediction, and application of satellite geodetic measurements to geodynamic problems.

Michael Hamburger currently has active research programs in the subduction zone environments of the Southwest Pacific (Fiji-Tonga region) and the Philippines, as well as in zones of continental collision in the Pamir-Tien Shan mountain region of Central Asia and the Caucasus mountains of southwestern Asia. Major field research projects include:

• (1) analysis of earthquake distribution, velocity structure, and focal mechanisms in the Pamir-Tien Shan region of central Asia;
• (2) study of earthquakes and crustal deformation associated with Pinatubo and Taal volcanoes in the Philippines;
• (3) studies of seismicity and crustal deformation in the U.S. midcontinent (Wabash Valley Seismic Zone of southern Indiana and Illinois);
• (4) application of satellite geodetic techniques using the Global Positioning System (GPS) for geodynamic measurements in the Caucasus Mountains (southern Russia, Georgia, and Armenia) and in the Tien Shan of Central Asia (in collaboration with MIT's Robert Reilinger, Brad Hager and Peter Molnar).

Hamburger is active in a large number of professional organizations. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the University Navstar (GPS) Consortium (UNAVCO), is an associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, and was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Together with Dr. Gary Pavlis and William Boone (IU School of Education) he has been involved in the Princeton Earth Physics Program, a nationwide project to bring seismology research into the public school curriculum. He serves on the Earthquake Advisory Board of the Indiana State Emergency Management Agency.

Web page:

http://geology.indiana.edu/hamburger/index.html

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