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 David Jackson,
 Professor of Geology & Geochemistry,
 Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center


David Jackson 
Mailing Address:

Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Office:Geology 1802
Telephone:(310) 825-0421
Fax:(310) 825-2779
E-mail:djackson@ucla.edu
Web Site:Southern California Earthquake Center
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 Courses Taught

 
ESS 5,   Environmental Geology of LA
ESS 8, Earthquakes
ESS 135, Applied Geophysics
ESS 136A, Applied Geophysics
ESS 204 Time Series
ESS 205 Inverse Theory

 Current Research Interest

  Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis; Earthquake Damage and Insurance; Statistical Data Analysis; Mathematical Inference in Geophysics; Earthquake Forecasting and Prediction; Crustal Deformation using Global Positioning System; Geophysical Exploration.

 Education

 

B.S., 1965, California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 1969, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Awards and Fellowships

 
1999-2003 Chair (elected) U.S. National Committee for the Internation Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
1999-2003 U.S. Delegate (appointed) to Council of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
1996-1999 Science Director (elected) , So. CA Earthquake Center
1996-1998 Chair (appointed) Comm. On Public Affairs, AGU
1994-1996 President (elected) Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union
1993 Fellow of American Geophysical Union
1981-1982 National Academy of Sciences/Natural Research Council, Senior Resident Research Associateship

 Selected Publications

 

Kagan, Y. Y. and D. D. Jackson,. Probabilistic forecasting of earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., 143, 438-453, 2000.

  Field, E. H., J. G. Anderson, T. L. Henyey, D. D. Jackson, W. B. Joyner, Y. Lee, H, Magistrale, B. Minster, K. B. Olsen, J. H. Steidl, L. A. Wald, and C. J. Wills, Accounting for site effects in probabilistic seismic hazard analyses of southern California: Overview of the SCEC Phase III Report, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer, 90, S1 - S31, 2000.
  Shen, Z.K., C. K. Zhao; A. Yin; Y. Li; D. D. Jackson, P. Fang, and D. Dong, Contemporary crustal deformation in East Asia constrained by Global Positioning System measurements, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 5721-5734, 2000.
  Geller, R. J.; M. Wyss, P. Bernard, A. Michael, C. H. Scholz, D. D. Jackson, P. Silver; and L. Knopoff, Is the reliable prediction of individual earthquakes a realistic scientific goal?, Nature , 398, 1999.
  Jackson, D. D., and Y. Y. Kagan, Testable earthquake forecasts for 1999, Seis. Res. Lett., 70, 393-403, 1999.
  Field, E. H., D. D. Jackson, and J. F. Dolan, A mutually consistent seismic-hazard source model for southern California, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 89, No. 3, 559-578, 1999.
  Kagan, Y.Y., and D. D. Jackson, Spatial aftershock distribution: Effect of normal stress, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24,453 - 24,467, 1998.
  Jackson, D. D., Z.-K. Shen, D. Potter, X.-B. Ge, and L. Sung, Southern California deformation, Science, 277, 1621-1622, 1997.
  Jackson, D.D., K. Aki, C.A. Cornell, J.H. Dieterich, T.L. Henyey, M. Mahdyiar, D. Schwartz, S.N. Ward, Seismic Hazards in southern California: Probable earthquakes 1994-2024, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 85, 379-439, 1995.
  Kagan, Y.Y., and D.D. Jackson. New seismic gap hypothesis: five years after. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 3943-3960, 1995.
  Shen, S.K., D.D. Jackson, Y. Feng, M. Cline, M. Kim, P. Feng, and Y. Bock, Postseismic Deformation Following the Landers Earthquake, California, 28 June 1992, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 84, 780-791, 1994.
  Feigl, K.L., D.C. Agnew, Y. Bock, D. Dong, A. Donnellan, B. Hager, T.A. Herring, D.D. Jackson, T.H. Jordan, R.W. King, S. Larsen, K.M.Larson, M.H. Murray, Z. Shen, and F.H. Webb, Space Geodetic Measurement of Crustal Deformation in Central and Southern California, 1984-1992, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21,677-21, 712, 1993.
  Jackson, D. D., and M. Matsu'ura. A Bayesian approach to nonlinear inversion. J. Geophys. Res., 90, 581-591, 1985.
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 Graduate Students

  Yufang Rong
yfrong@moho.ess.ucla.edu
http://scec.ess.ucla.edu/~yfrong/yfang.htm

 
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