David M. Boore
Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph. D., Geophysics, 1970
Position:
Geophysicist,
Experience
and Awards:
His professional experience includes:
postdoctoral fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, 1970-1972; visiting assistant
professor and assistant professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford
University, 1972-1978; geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey, 1978-present.
Dr. Boore has published over 250 papers,
most dealing with various aspects of the problem of estimating the ground
shaking from large earthquakes. The topics covered in these publications range
from the seismic source to site response, with stops in between.
His professional service includes: member
of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering; member of the
U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects; seismic consultant to the
Department of Energy's Tank Seismic Experts Panel; seismic consultant to the
Advanced Light Water Reactor Equipment Seismic Qualification Panel; member of
panel of seismic experts for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of the
proposed yucca Mountain waste repository; member of review panel, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission's Ground Motion Guidelines project; member of the Senior Seismic
Hazard Analysis Committee; seismic expert for various Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory studies of probabilistic seismic hazard analyses of nuclear
power plant sites; member of the Board of Directors of the Seismological
Society of America, Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the Seismological
Society of America from 1975-1984 and Editor from 1975-1984; International
Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Commission on
Strong Motion Seismology, Chairman 1977-1983, member 1983-1992.
The U.S. Department of the Interior
awarded Dr. Boore the Meritorious Service Award in 1993 and the Distinguished
Service Award in 2005 in recognition of his research in many different areas of
engineering seismology. He is a Fellow
of the American Geophysical Union and an honorary life member of the
Seismological Society of America. In 2006 he was awarded the Indian
Society of Earthquake Technology Trifunac Award for Significant
Contributions in Strong Motion Earthquake Studies, and in 2010 he was awarded
the COSMOS/EERI/SSA Bruce A. Bolt medal. He is a coauthor on a paper
given the Outstanding Paper of 2008 award by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
(EERI) at EERI's annual meeting in 2010.