Peter M. Shearer

Peter M. Shearer
Professor of Geophysics
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

IGPP 0225
U.C. San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225

Phone: (858) 534-2260
FAX: (858) 534-5332
E-mail: pshearer AT ucsd DOT edu

Education

B.S.
Ph.D.

Geology and Geophysics
Geophysics

Yale University
U.C. San Diego

1978
1986

Employment

10/78 - 07/81
08/81 - 06/86
11/86 - 07/88
08/88 - 12/88
01/89 - 06/91
07/91 - 06/95
07/95 - present

Geophysicist
Research Assistant
Postdoc
Green Scholar
Assistant Researcher/Lecturer
Associate Professor
Professor

U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
SIO, U.C. San Diego
University of Cambridge, U.K.
SIO, U.C. San Diego
SIO, U.C. San Diego
SIO, U.C. San Diego
SIO, U.C. San Diego

Awards

Fellow, American Geophysical Union
SIO Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
AGU Excellence in Refereeing
AGU Gutenberg Lecturer
Elected National Academy of Sciences
Lehmann Medal, AGU

1999
2003
2003
2005
2009
2020

Research Interests

Observational seismology using large data sets
Lithospheric and upper-mantle discontinuities
Earthquake location methods
Earthquake source properties
Scattering and deep Earth structure
Anisotropic wave propagation

List of publications