David Rhoades

David is a geophysical statistician who works on improving models for earthquake hazard and risk, to provide better information on the likelihood of future large earthquakes and their damaging effects, and to increase our understanding of how earthquakes are generated and what make us vulnerable to them. His pioneering collaborative studies on patterns in the occurrence of small earthquakes before big ones, are leading the way internationally in developing testable methods for long-range earthquake forecasting. He is an active participant in the California-led Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability and is co-chair of the Working Group on Earthquake Predictability of the International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior.