Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, is this year’s Natural Hazards Gilbert F. White Distinguished Lecture Award winner. Ross studies how earthquakes interact by the transfer of stress, including aftershocks, the progression of mainshocks along a fault, earthquake clustering, and seismic quiescence. His work focuses on understanding the physics of earthquakes, and developing better ways to make seismic hazard assessments and forecasts. Stein will deliver the inaugural Gilbert F. White Lecture at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting.
