Paul Silver
Curriculum Vitae

Education

1966-1970

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles California

Psychology

B.A.

1975-1976

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Geology

B.A.

1976-1982

University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, California

Geophysics

Ph.D

Employment

1976-1982

University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, California

Research Assistant

1982-

Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
5241 Broad Branch Road, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20015
(202) 478-8834
silver@dtm.ciw.edu

Staff Scientist

1986-

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Baltimore, Maryland

Research Assoc. Professor
(joint appointment)

Service

Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research

1987-1990

PASSCAL (IRIS) Standing Committee member

1988-1990

IRIS, Executive Committee Member

1988-1992

IRIS, Chairman, Board of Directors

1990-1992

IRIS, Chairman, Joint Seismic Program

1993-1994

USGS, Gilbert Fellowship Selection Committee

1994-1996

AGU, Macelwane Award Selection Committee

1992-1996

IRIS, Committee of the Chairs

1996-1997

IRIS, Science Task Force Committee Member

1999-2000

NSF, Geophysics Program Panel Member

1999-2002

SSA, Representative to American Geological Inst.

1997-2004

SSA, Board of Directors Member

1998-2004

Plate Boundary Observatory, Steering Committee Chair

1999-2002

EarthScope Working Group Member

2000-2003

NRC, Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics Member

2001-2006

UNAVCO Inc., Board of Directors Vice Chair

2002-2003

UNAVCO Inc., PBO Standing Committee Member

2002-2003

AGU, Information Technology Committee Member

2002-2004

ANSS National Steering Committee, SSA Rep. (alt.)

2002-2006

EarthScope Facility Executive Committee Member

2002-2006

COMPRES External Advisory Committee, Member

2003-2006

UNAVCO Inc., Board of Directors (Chair 2004-2006)

2003-2006

AGU, President, Seismological Section

2004-2006

Participation in Scientific Expeditions

1977: F. Drake 77 on the Melville. Deep Tow study of the East Pacific Rise at 21 North; OBS seismicity study of the Middle America Trench near Acapulco.

1989: Chief scientist in portable teleseismic experiment (APT89) to determine the elastic properties of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Western Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, Trans-Hudson orogenic zone, and Wyoming Craton..

1994-1996: Co-Chief scientist in transportable teleseismic experiment (BANJO) to determine elastic properties of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Andes at a latitude of 20 degrees south (across Chile and Bolivia).

1994-2000: Principal investigator of Scientific ALliance for South America (SALSA). This is an organization dedicated to the coordination of seismic data in South America for the purpose of significantly improving the location of seismic events

1996-2000: Co-Chief scientist of South African project: "Anatomy of a Craton". Principal component was transportable teleseismic experiment to determine the crust and upper mantle structure of the Kaapvaal Craton and surrounding areas.

2000-2002: Co-Chief scientist of Yunnan, China Portable Seismic Experiment.  Designed to compare structure of the Tibetan plateau, to off-plateau region to the east.

2004-2006: Co-Chief scientist of Eastern Tibet Seismic Experiment. Sampled on-plateau, off-plateau transition.

Honors and Awards

1970

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

U.C.L.A.

1976

Earl C. Anthony Fee Scholarship

U.C.S.D.

1982

Carl Eckart Award
(for outstanding thesis)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1988

UNESCO lecturer
(United Nations)

International Institute for Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (Tsukuba, Japan)

1997

Fellow

Geological Society of America

1998

Capitol Science Lecturer

Carnegie Institution of Washington

2000

Fellow

American Geophysical Union

2005

Harold Jeffreys Lecturer

Royal Astronomical Society

2007

Fellow

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Memberships

American Geophysical Union

Seismological Society of America

Geological Society of America

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Direction of Theses

Ph.D.
Ines Cifuentes (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), 1989: The Great 1960 Chilean Earthquake
Goetz Bokelmann (Princeton), 1992. Upper and Lower Mantle Small Scale Heterogeneity Studied By Systematic Analysis of Portable Broadband Waveforms and Traveltimes
Jascha Polet (Cal. Tech.), 1998. Seismological Observations of Upper Mantle Anisotropy

Senior theses
Steven Schoenecker (Princeton), 1995. Shear Wave Splitting and Seismic Anisotropy in the Hindu Kush.
Melissa Stephenson (SUNY Stony Brook), 2002. Analysis of Mantle Flow Beneath the India-Eurasian Collision Zone Using Seismic Anisotropy and Surface Deformation Measurements.

Thesis Committee Member

Ph.D.
Chris Kincaid, James Gaherty, Guilhem Barruol, Fabrice Fontaine, Andreas Wustefeld.

Postdoctoral Fellows Advised

Guilhem Barruol, Ingi Bjarnason, Mark Behn, Craig Bina, Ines Cifuentes, Winston Chan, Timothy Clarke, Lucy Flesch, Matt Fouch, Steve Gao, George Helffrich, Wenjie Jiao, Haemyeong Jung, Satoshi Kaneshima, Chris Kincaid, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Maureen Long, Tetsu Masuda, Charles Meade, Fenglin Niu, Raymond Russo, Georg Rumpker, Brian Savage, Mark Schmitz, Derek Schutt, Larry Solheim, Takaaki Taira, Suzan van der Lee, Linda Warren, Lianxing Wen, Cecily Wolfe.