Events

Ilia State University Hall A 101 will host a public lecture on “How many catastrophic earthquakes and global earthquake fatalities will there be in the 21st century?” by Dr. Thomas L. Holzer.

Dr. Thomas L. Holzer is an engineering geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. He has a B.S.E. degree in geological engineering from Princeton University (1965) and a M.S. degree in hydrology (1966) and a Ph.D. degree in geology from Stanford University (1970). He is a certified engineering geologist in the State of California, and a consulting professor at Stanford University in the Departments of Geological and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has broad experience with earthquake hazards as well as ground failure in general. He has participated in numerous post-earthquake investigations and chaired the committee that wrote The Plan to coordinate NEHRP post-earthquake investigations (2003). He has served as a consultant to the State of California during reviews of residential earthquake insurance rate applications based on earthquake loss models. He was the 1998 Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer and the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America.

Mr. John R. Bass, Ambassador of the United States of America to Georgia, will attend the meeting.