MAY 2024 LUNCHEON MEETING
Dr. Vince Cronin
presents:
Tools and Strategies to Find an Active Fault
11:30 AM Wednesday, May 15, 2024
at Willow Brook Country Club
3205 W Erwin St.
Tyler, TX 75702
Cost: $25 if you RSVP
$30 at the door if you do NOT reserve
Abstract
This talk will summarize techniques used by Vince Cronin and his students to find the ground-surface trace of seismogenic/active faults. It will emphasize the ideas of geoscience to benefit society, the primacy principle of protecting human life/safety, the comingling of basic fieldwork with analysis of geophysical data (relocated earthquake hypocenter data, earthquake focal mechanisms, GPS geodesy, LiDAR-based geomorphic analysis), and the virtue of continuing education throughout a geoscientist's career.
Biography
Vince Cronin engages in a broad range of geoscience work. He has served in various capacities in GSA's Environmental and Engineering Geology Division, and is a GSA Fellow. He is also a long-time AEG member. Vince worked for a former State Geologist of California, Dr. Jim Slosson, as an engineering geologist and consultant on projects involving landslides, active faulting, flooding, coastal/stream erosion, and resource evaluation in the western US.
Vince is an emeritus professor of geoscience at Baylor University. There and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he taught a variety of graduate courses about structural geology, tectonics, and engineering geology, and the core undergraduate courses in physical geology and structural geology. Along with his graduate and undergraduate students, he has used earthquake data, lidar-based geomorphic analysis, GPS geodesy, and field work to locate the ground-surface trace of seismogenic faults.
Vince is the editor of the 11th through 13th editions of the AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology (Pearson) and is writing a quantitative primer on plate kinematics. He has contributed to the development of geoethics for about 30 years and currently serves on the executive board of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) as its North American coordinator. He was chosen by AIPG as the recipient of the Ben H. Parker Memorial Distinguished Service Medal for 2023.