Richard Aster

Education

University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

Aster"s research includes seismic imaging, volcano seismology, microseismicity, seismic noise, seismic instrumentation, crustal and mantle seismology, fluvial seismology and cryoseismology. Doctor Aster served as president of the Seismological Society of America from 2009-2010. In 1999 Aster founded the New Mexico Technical Insurance Regulatory Information System PASSCAL Instrument Center, which supports diverse seismological studies around the world under the management of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology with primary funding from the National Science Foundation and United States. Department of Energy, and served as the first Principal Investigator of the facility.

Aster was featured in the 2011-2012 British Broadcasting Corporation Horizon production The Core.

Aster, with Brian Borchers of New Mexico Technical and Clifford Thurber of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a co-author of an internationally used geophysics/mathematical textbook Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems, which was published by Elsevier in a second edition in 2012. From 2009 to 2010 Aster presented United States. seminars as part of the Insurance Regulatory Information System-Social Security Administration Distinguished Lecturership program

Achievements

• Aster Glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica is named for Doctor Aster, who received the National Science Foundation Antarctic Services Medal for fieldwork in Antarctica in 1999. Aster was awarded the Distinguished Research Award by New Mexico Technical in 2010 and the university"s Faculty Award in 2005.

Membership

And as an elected board member of the society from 2008-2014. Doctor Aster is a member of the Seismological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and other Earth science societies and organizations.