MAX WYSS

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~ Max Wyss		internet: max@giseis.alaska.edu		~
~ Prof, WADATI Chair	phone:    (907) 474-5529                ~
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~	Associations:	Seismology/GI/WADATI/Geology/Geophysics	~
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~ 		Geophysical Institute				~
~ 		University of Alaska Fairbanks			~
~ 		903 Koyukuk Drive, P.O. Box 757320		~
~ 		Fairbanks, Alaska  USA  99775-7320		~
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Vitae:

Max Wyss has been Wadati Professor for Seismology at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, from 1991 to the present. He received a diploma from the Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland in 1964 and his MS and PhD in Geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1967 and 1970, respectively. After two years as a Research Associate at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (1971/72) he became Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder (1972/91), where he also was a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences. In 1993/94 he served as State Seismologist of Alaska. He received the Alexander von Humboldt, Senior U.S. Scientist Award in 1985. He is a member of the Seismological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He was editor of Pure and Applied Geophysics from 1974-1984, and member of their advisory board from 1984-1994. From 1987 to the present he served as chairman of the IASPEI sub-commission on earthquake prediction. Max Wyss has published over 150 research articles in reviewed journals on seismic source processes, tectonics and problems of earthquake prediction and hazard assessment. He held about 60 research grants mostly from NSF and the US Geological Survey, with some support from NASA and the Navy. Current research efforts of Max Wyss concentrate on tectonics and seismic hazard in Alaska and California, as well as earthquake prediction in general.

Recent Papers:

• Wyss, Max and Stefan Wiemer. "Change in the probability for earthquakes in Southern California due to the Landers magnitude 7.3 earthquake." Science, 290, 1334-1338, 2000.

• Oencel, A. O. and M. Wyss "The major asperities of the 1999 Mw=7.4 Izmit earthquake defined by the microseismicity of the two decades before it." Geophys. J. Int., 143, 501-506, 2000.

• Wyss, Max, Akira Hasegawa, Junichi Nakajima. "The source and path of magma for volcanoes in the subduction zone of northeastern Japan." GRL, 28, 1819-1822, 2001.

• Wyss, Max, Fred Klein, Koichiro Nagamine and Stefan Wiemer. "Evidence for magma at intermediate crustal depth below Kilauea's East Rift, Hawaii, based on anomalously high b-values." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 106, 23-37, 2001.

Abtracts of Pre-Prints:

• Wyss, Max. "Locked and creeping patches along the Hayward fault, California." GRL, in press, 2001.

• Wyss, Max and Shozo Matsumura. "Most likely locations of large earthquakes in the Kanto and Tokai areas, Japan, based on local recurrence times." PEPPI, submitted, December, 2000.

• Wiemer, Stefan and Max Wyss. "Mapping spatial variability of the frequency-magnitude distribution of earthquakes." Advances in Geophysics, in print, 2001.

• Zuniga Ramon F. and Max Wyss. "Most and least likely locations of large to great earthquakes along the Pacific coast of Mexico, estimated from local recurrence times based on b-values." BSSA, in print, 2001.

• Westerhaus Malte, Max Wyss, Ruechan Yilmaz and Jochen Zschau. "Correlating variations of b values and crustal deformations during the 1990s may have pinpointed the rupture initiation of the Mw=7.4 Izmit earthquake of Aug. 17, 1999." Geophys. J. Int., in print, 2001.

• Wiemer Stefan and Max Wyss. "ZMAP: A Tool for Analyses of Seismicity Patterns." On the web, in construction, 2001.

• Charles Sammis, Max Wyss, Bob Nadeau, and Stefan Wiemer. "Comparison Between Seismicity on Creeping and Locked Patches of the San Andreas Fault Near Parkfield, CA: Fractal Dimension and b-value." , Intended for BSSA, in construction, 2001.

Pre-Prints:

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List of Articles Published in Refereed Journals:

A list of all Max Wyss' publications is available

The Weather in Fairbanks:

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Last Updated April 2001.