Lawson Lecture Series

Since 2003, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory has been hosting public lectures, the Lawson Lectures, on earthquakes and earthquake science. Held every year in April, the lecture series is meant to address a wide variety of earthquake issues of interest to the Berkeley community. The lecture series was inaugurated as part of the Seismological Laboratory's plans for commemorating the 1906 earthquake.

The lecture series is named for Professor Andrew Lawson, who was appointed to the Department of Geology at UC Berkeley in 1890. In 1906, as Chairman of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, he organized an extensive field program, to which many geologists contributed their services, and prepared the one of the most complete and informative reports ever published on a great earthquake.

Lawson lectures:

Date	Title	Speaker	Links
4/14/2009	"Building Resilient Communities: Fresh Challenges for Earthquake Professionals"	Chris Poland, Degenkolb Engineers	New! Lecture Webcast Announcement (PDF) Abstract
4/09/2008	"A tectonic time bomb in our backyard: Earthquake potential of the Hayward fault"	Dr. Roland Burgmann, UC Berkeley	Lecture Webcast Announcement (PDF)
4/24/2007	"The Parkfield 2004 Earthquake: Lessons From the Best-Recorded Quake in History"	Dr. Andy Michael, USGS Menlo Park	Lecture Webcast a pdf of Andy Michael's CV
4/15/2006	Designing For Disaster: The UC Berkeley Seismic Retrofit Program	Dr. Mary Comerio, UC Berkeley	Lecture Webcast Lecture Abstract
4/18/2005	The 2004 Giant Earthquake and Tsunami: Observations and Lessons Learned	Dr. Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley	Lecture Webcast Lecture Powerpoint Announcement (PDF) Information on the Sumatra earthquake
4/21/2004	Earthquake Conversations	Dr. Ross Stein, USGS	Lecture Webcast Announcement (PDF)
4/22/2003	New Earthquake Probabilities for the San Francisco Bay Area: What you should know	Dr. David Schwartz, USGS	Announcement (PDF) 2003 Earthquake Probability Study USGS Fact Sheet: Is a Powerful Quake Likely to Strike in the Next 30 Years? UC Berkeley Media Advisory

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