Background
Cluff, Lloyd Sterling was born on September 29, 1933 in Provo, Utah, United States. Son of Colvin Sterling and Melba (Walker) Cluff.
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Lloyd Sterling Cluff
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Bachelor of Science in Geology, U. Utah, 1960.
Career
Junior geologist, El Paso Natural Gas Company, Salt Lake City, 1957-1959;
teaching assistant department geology, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1958-1960;
geologist, Lottridge Thomas & Associations, Salt Lake City, 1960;
vice president, principal geologist, board directors, Woodward-Clyde Cons., San Francisco, 1960-1985;
associate professor, U. Nevada, Reno, 1967-1973;
manager department geoscience, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, since 1985. Cons. Trans-Alaska Pipeline Siting Study, 1972-1974, Aswan High Dam, Government of Egypt, 1982-1986. Member committee National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Washington, 1987, Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Washington, 1989.
Advisor Venezuela President's Earthquake Safety Committee, 1967-1972. Advisor Joint Legislation Committee on Seismic Safety, State of California, 1970-1974. Chairman seismic review panel California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, 1980-1981.
Member California Seismic Safety Commission, since 1985, chairman, 1988-1990, 95-97. Member Board on Natural Disasters National Research Council, since 1996. Member of advisory county Southern California Earthquake Center, since 1996.
Chairman Technology Advisory Board on EarthquakeRisk, Israel, since 1996. Board directors California Institute for Energy Efficiency, 1997-1998. Member organizing committee for Public Policy Partnership 2000-White House Confs. on Natural Disaster Loss Reduction, 1997-1998.
Member NAS commission on assessing costs of natural disasters, since 1998. Member Federal Emergency Management Agency national pre-disaster mitigation program advisory panel, since 1998. Member external advisory panel for Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center, since 1998.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow California Academy Sciences. Member National Academy of Engineering, National Science Foundation (advisory panel on earth science 1992-1995), NAS (Chairman of Commission Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake 1994), Seismological Society American (president 1982-1983), Association Engineering Geologists (president 1968-1969), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (honorary, president 1993-1995, chairman International Conference on Seismic Zonation, Nice, France 1995), Geological Society American, Structural Engineers Association Northern California.
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Connections
Married Anne Provstgard, August 28, 1958 (divorced June 1974). Married Janet L. Peterson, December 21, 1976. Children: Tanya, Sasha, Branden.
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Republican