Erik Larson: Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Harvard University, Ph.D. 2000, in Geophysics (seismology) from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Harvard University, A.M. 1996, in Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Harvard Univeristy, A.B. 1993, magna cum laude in Earth and Planetary Sciences
• San Marin High School (Novato, CA), 1989, Salutatorian

Employment

• Harvard University, Research Assistant, September 1994-October 1999
  • Working with Professors Jeroen Tromp and Göran Ekström while a graduate student.
• California Institute of Technology, Junior Scientist, June 1994-August 1994
  • With Prof. Hiroo Kanamori, working on a method of rapid automatic program to locate and determine magnitudes of moderate and large regional earthquakes from a single seismometer.
• Harvard University, Research Assistant, September 1991-June 1994
  • With Prof. Joann Stock (September 1991-June 1992), worked on borehole data for Los Angeles to find breakouts and then determine stress regime.
  • With Prof. Göran Ekström (June 1992-June 1993), developed modified version of Brian Kennett's reflectivity code, used code to invert for moment tensors for earthquakes in Siberia
  • With Profs. Ekström and Jeroen Tromp (June 1993-June 1994), studied surface wave data to determine global maps of lateral variations of phase velocity

Awards

• Outstanding Student Presentation Award (seismology section) for talk at American Geophysical Union 1997 Fall Meeting
• 1995 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• Gutenberg Fellowship from California Institute of Technology for 1994-95 (declined)