CURRICULUM VITAE – PAUL G. RICHARDS
1943 March 31 Born, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
1948 – 1961 Primary and Secondary education in England
1962 – 1965 Undergraduate of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. State Scholar. Read Part I of the Mathematical Tripos in 1963, and Part II in 1964. Won college Mathematics prize (1963), and Essay prize in Physics (1965)
1965 B.A. (Mathematics), University of Cambridge
1965 – 1970 (Jan.) Graduate student at the Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, Graduate Research Assistant
1966 M.S. (Geology), California Institute of Technology
1966 Summer employment with Chevron Research Company (a branch of Standard Oil of California)
1970 Ph.D. (Geophysics), California Institute of Technology. Thesis title "A contribution to the theory of high frequency elastic waves, with applications to the shadow boundary of the Earth's core"
1970 (March) – 1971 Assistant Research Geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at San Diego
1971 (July) – 1976 (June) Assistant Professor of Geology, Columbia University
1973 – 1977 Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
1973 (Nov.) – 1977 (June) American Editor, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1976 (July) – 1979 (June) Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, Columbia University
1977 Recipient of James B. Macelwane Award (given by the American Geophysical Union). Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
1977 (Sept.) Visited Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, as part of the U.S. – U.S.S.R. Exchange Agreement on Research into Earthquake Prediction
1977 – 1978 Guggenheim Fellowship (on sabbatical leave from Columbia, spending 6 months in New Zealand)
1979 (June) – 1983 (June) Member of the Executive Committee of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
1979 (July) – 1996 Professor of Geological Sciences, Columbia University
1980 (July) – 1983 (June) Chairman, Geological Sciences, Columbia University; and Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
1980 (July) – 1983 (June) Member, NAS/NRC Committee on Seismology
1980 (Sept.) U.S. citizenship
1981 (Dec.) Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (for 5 years)
1982 – 1983 Member, NSF Oversight Committee on Seismology and Deep Earth Structure
1982 (Oct.) – 1984 (June) Senate Member, Columbia University; Member of Senate Committees on Education, and External Relations and Research Policy
1983 (Sept.) Visiting lecturer, Peking University
1984 (Sept.) – 1985 (Aug.) On leave from Columbia, as a William C. Foster Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
1987 (July) – 1990 (June) Member, Administrative Committee of the Lamont - Doherty Geological Observatory
1987 (July) – present Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences, Columbia University
1989 (June) Fellowship from the Royal Norwegian Council on Scientific and Industrial Research, visiting NORSAR
1989 – 1990 Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (on sabbatical leave from Columbia)
1991 Visited Borovoye Geophysical Observatory, Kazakhstan, for joint research on seismic monitoring
1992 – present Member, Council on Foreign Relations
1992 (July) – 1994 (June) President, Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union
1993 (Sept.) – 1994 (Aug.) On leave from Columbia, as a William C. Foster Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
1993 (October) elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
1994 – 1998 Member, Administrative Committee of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory
1996 – present Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
1997 (March – August) On sabbatical leave from Columbia, as Visiting Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory
2000 – 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (lecture series at each of ten colleges/universities)
2002 – 2005 Member, Board of Directors, Seismological Society of America
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (1990 and later)
Member, Seismic Review Panel, for U.S. Air Force Tactical Applications Center (1985 to present)
Member, Board of Editors of the journal Wave Motion, 1985–1992
For Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS): chairman of search committees for IRIS President, in 1985 and in 1990; member of Executive Committee, 1987 – 1990; Vice-Chairman of Board of Directors, 1988 – 90; member of Standing Committee on Data Management Center, 1996–99. Ad hoc committee on reorganization of IRIS Board of Directors, 2004. Member, nominating committee, 2003 and 2004.
Elected member of Council, American Geophysical Union, 1990-94; president/seismology 94–96.
Member, Faculty Planning Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1991–1993
Member, Board of Visitors, Office of Naval Research, 1992
Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Computational Acoustics, 1991–1997
Member, US delegation to the Conference on Disarmament (negotiating a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty), Geneva, June 1995; and gave a presentation for the United States at the CD Experts Meeting, on problems posed by chemical explosions
Member, NAS/NRC Panels on Seismological Data and Research Requirements for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, 1994–95 and 1995–1997.
Member, planning committee of NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Nov 1994, Moscow, on: Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions
Key Lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Jan-Feb 1995, Portugal, on:
Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Member, Red Team advising the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency on capability of the U.S. to verify compliance with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1997 – 1998)
Harold Jeffreys Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society, given in March 1999, subject: “Earth's Inner Core: Discoveries and Conjectures”
Invited lecturer in China for three weeks (May 1999) on “Seismology for the 21st Century”
Inaugurated the "Distinguished GEO-lecturer" series at NSF headquarters, January 2000
Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control, studying technical issues associated with ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, 2000 – 2003
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, three year term beginning September 2000
Member of the Advisory Board for Columbia University's Center for the Study of Science and Religion, since February 2001
Elected to Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America, three year term beginning April 2002
Member, Earth Institute at Columbia University, Academic Committee, since July 2003
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Seismological Society of America
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Royal Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union
Arms Control Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Council on Foreign Relations
International Society of Explosives Engineers
PUBLICATIONS
T.-L. Teng and Paul G. Richards, Diffracted SH and SV, Nature, 218, 1154-1155, 1968.
T.-L. Teng and Paul G. Richards, Diffracted P, SH and SV waves, and their shadow boundary shifts, Journal of Geophysical Research, 74, 1537-1555, 1969.
Paul G. Richards, A contribution to the theory of high frequency elastic waves, with applications to the shadow boundary of the Earth's core, Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology, 1970.
Paul G. Richards, Potentials for elastic displacement in spherically symmetric media, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 50, 188-197, 1971.
Paul G. Richards, An elasticity theorem for heterogeneous media, with an example of body wave dispersion in the Earth, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 22, 453-472, 1971.
Paul G. Richards, A theory for pressure radiation from ocean-bottom earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 61, 707-721, 1971.
Paul G. Richards, Elastic wave solutions in stratified media, Geophysics, 36, 798-809, 1971.
Paul G. Richards, Seismic waves reflected from velocity gradient anomalies within the Earth's upper mantle, Zeitschrift für Geophysik, 38, 517-527, 1972.
Paul G. Richards, The dynamic field of a growing plane elliptical shear crack, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 9, 843-861, 1973.
Paul G. Richards, Dynamic properties of an earthquake source, Proceedings of the Fifth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Rome, June 1973.
Paul G. Richards, Calculation of body waves, for caustics and tunnelling in core phases, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35, 243-264, 1973.
Paul G. Richards, Weakly coupled potentials for high-frequency elastic waves in continuously stratified media, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 64, 1575-1588, 1974.
George L. Choy and Paul G. Richards, Pulse distortion and Hilbert transformation in multiply reflected and refracted body waves, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 65, 55-70, 1975.
Yash P. Aggarwal, Lynn R. Sykes, David W. Simpson and Paul G. Richards, Spatial and temporal variations in ts/tp and in P-wave residuals at Blue Mountain Lake, New York: Application to earthquake prediction, Journal of Geophysical Research, 80, 718-732, 1975.
Paul G. Richards, Theoretical seismology, IUGG Quadrennial Report, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, 13, 295-298 and 313-316, 1975.
John Anderson and Paul G. Richards, Comparison of strong ground motion from several dislocation models, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 42, 347-373, 1975.
Paul G. Richards, Dynamic motions near an earthquake fault: A three-dimensional solution, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 60, 1-32, 1976.
Paul G. Richards and Clint W. Frasier, Scattering of elastic waves from depth-dependent inhomogeneities, Geophysics, 41, 441-458, 1976.
Vernon Cormier and Paul G. Richards, Comments on a paper by Qamar and Eisenberg concerning attenuation in the Earth's outer core, Journal of Geophysical Research, 81, 3066-3068, 1976.
Paul G. Richards, On the adequacy of plane-wave reflection/transmission coefficients in the analysis of seismic body waves, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 66, 701-717, 1976.
Vernon Cormier and Paul G. Richards, Full wave theory applied to a discontinuous velocity increase: The Earth's inner core, Journal of Geophysics, 43, 3-31, 1977.
Paul G. Richards, Theoretical seismic wave propagation, IUGG Quadrennial Report, Review of Geophysics and Space Physics, 17, 312-328, 1979.
Paul G. Richards, Elementary solutions to Lamb's problem for a point source and their relevance to three dimensional studies of spontaneous crack propagation, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 69, 947-956, 1979.
Shamita Das and Paul G. Richards, Effects of non-uniform spontaneous rupture propagation on the level and duration of earthquake ground motion, Proceedings of the Second U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Stanford, California, 1979.
Keiiti Aki and Paul G. Richards, Quantitative Seismology: Theory and Methods, two volumes, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, California, February 1980. Russian edition, 1983. Chinese edition, 1986.
William H. Menke and Paul G. Richards, Crust-mantle whispering gallery phases: A deterministic model of teleseismic Pn wave propagation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 85, 5416-5422, 1980.
George L. Choy, Vernon F. Cormier, Rainer Kind, Gerhard Mü ller and Paul G. Richards, A comparison of synthetic seismograms of core phases generated by the full wave theory and by the reflectivity method, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 61, 21–39, 1980 (and Corrigendum, 62, 733–735).
David W. Simpson and Paul G. Richards (editors), Earthquake Prediction – An International Review, 680 pages, Maurice Ewing Series #4, American Geophysical Union, 1981.
William H. Menke and Paul G. Richards, On extending Biot's theory of low-frequency acoustic scatter about a rough fluid-rigid interface to more general acoustic media, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 71, 1101-1105, 1982.
William H. Menke and Paul G. Richards, The horizontal propagation of P waves through scattering media: Analog model studies relevant to long range Pn propagation, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 73, 125-142, 1983.
Paul G. Richards and William H. Menke, The apparent attenuation of a scattering medium, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 73, 1005-1021, 1983.
Paul G. Richards, On wavefronts and interfaces in anelastic media, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 74, 2157-2165, 1984.
Paul G. Richards, Seismic wave propagation effects – development of theory and numerical modelling, chapter in DARPA commemorative volume The VELA Program: A Twenty-Five Year Review of Basic Research, ed. A.U. Kerr, pp. 183-251, 1985.
Paul G. Richards, Interpretation of the 15 January 1965 cratering explosion at Shagan River (27 pp, for U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency), July 1985.
Paul G. Richards, Station magnitude bias – its existence and estimation (28 pages, for U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency), August 1985.
Paul G. Richards, written testimony for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, May 6, 1986. (Closed hearing – testimony and transcript can be released only after consideration and vote of the whole committee. Subject of this invited testimony was: organization and management within the government of the research and development of new approaches for yield determination.)
Paul G. Richards, Underground nuclear testing (19 Sept. 1957), in Book of Days 1987: A Guide to Anniversaries of People and Events, ed. C.S. Johnson, pp 462-463, Pieran Press, 1987.
Paul G. Richards and Allan Lindh, Toward a New Test Ban Regime, Issues in Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, 3, # 3, 101-108, Spring 1987.
Dean Witte and Paul G. Richards, Modeling Seismic Wave Propagation in 2-D and 3-D structures, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory Yearbook, 64-68, 1987.
Paul G. Richards, written testimony for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senate Hearing Record, January 15, 1987. Available as Senate Hearing 100–115; pp 72-86, 286-291, 325-358, and 394-396; 1987.
Paul G. Richards and Joseph Nye, Weapons Testing and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Prospects for the Future, in Science and Security: the Future of Arms Control, Colloquium Proceedings, December 4-5, 1986 , pp. 189-218, AAAS Publication No. 87-17, 1987.
Paul G. Richards, testimony for the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence, Senate Hearing Record, February 26, 1987. Available as Senate Hearing 100-242, Pt. 4; pp 1846-1853, 1864-1872; 1987.
Paul G. Richards, Consideration of Chemical Explosions, a seven-page paper delivered April 28 1987 to the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), for incorporation in the 1988 OTA report on Seismic Verification of Nuclear Test Limitation Treaties. Richards also wrote the first draft of chapter 5 (on "Identification of Underground Nuclear Explosions") for this report (published May, 1988).
Paul G. Richards, Towards Improvement in Capabilities for Seismic Monitoring of Underground Nuclear Explosions, for a conference in association with the U.N. Special Session on Disarmament, New York, May 1988.
Vernon F. Cormier and Paul G. Richards, Spectral Synthesis of Body Waves in Earth Models Specified by Vertically Varying Layers, in the book Seismological Algorithms, edited by D. Doornbos, pp 3-45, Academic Press, 1988.
Paul G. Richards, Stages Toward a New Test Ban, chapter 4 in the book Verification and Compliance: a Problem-Solving Approach, pp 73-91, edited by Michael Krepon and Mary Umberger, Macmillan (U.K.) and Ballinger (U.S.A.), 1988.
Paul G. Richards, Nuclear Test Ban Treaties and Seismic Monitoring of Underground Nuclear Explosions: an Overview of the Historical, Technical, and Political Issues, Proceedings of the Alan S. Attardo Symposium on Science and Society, held at Yale University on April 7, 1988. 36 pages.
Paul G. Richards, Seismic Methods for Verifying Test Ban Treaties, Chapter 4 of the book Nuclear Arms Technologies in the 1990's, edited by D. Schroeer and D. Hafemeister, AIP Conference Proceedings 178, pp 54-108, American Institute of Physics, New York, 1988.