Lowell Stanley Whiteside

Background

Whiteside, Lowell Stanley was born on January 7, 1946 in Trinidad, Colorado, United States. Son of Paul Edward and Carrie Belle (Burgess) Whiteside.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Hamline U., 1968; postgraduate, Oswego State University of New York, 1970-1972; Master of Science, U. Nebraska, 1985; postgraduate, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986-1988; postgraduate, U. Colorado, 1990-1994.

Career

Instructor, United States Peace Corps, Mhlume, Swaziland, 1968-1971; research associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1988-1990; geophysicist in charge of international earthquake data base, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, since 1990. Visiting researcher Nuclear and Geological Sciences Institute, Wellington, New Zealand, 1997. General secretary United Nations Workshop on Forecasting National Disasters by Geomagnetic Methods, Beijing, 1998, on Geomagnetic Methods, Beijing, 1998.

Co-chair International Workshop on Statistical Earthquake Predicition, Hangzhou, China, 1998.

Achievements

• Lowell Stanley Whiteside has been listed as a noteworthy Seismologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Scoutmaster Boy Scouts American, St. Paul, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1968-1980, camp counselor, 1968-1976. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman 1986-1987, vice chairman 1985-1986, Geology-Geography, Rocky Mountain section, Outstanding Articles Referee 1992, Best Student Paper award 1984, 85), Seismological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Sierra Club, Planetary Society.

Interests

• Avocations: hiking, camping, music, biking, running.

Connections

Father:

Paul Edward Whiteside

Mother:

Carrie Belle (Burgess) Whiteside