Boston College
Dr. Ebel received an A.B. degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1975 and a Ph.D. degree in Geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1981. Since 1981 he has been a member of the geophysics faculty at Boston College and has also carried out research at Weston Observatory. He is a past chair of the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America and of the New England Seismic Advisory Council, and he has been meeting program chairman and secretary of the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union. Dr. Ebel’s research interests are in the areas of earthquake hazard, earthquake source mechanisms, earthquake prediction, wave propagation studies and determination of lithospheric structure. Since 1981 he has been in charge of the New England Seismic Network of Weston Observatory of Boston College. This network, currently comprised of seismic stations that span the six New England states, is used to detect, locate, catalog and study all earthquakes that occur in New England and vicinity. Dr. Ebel’s research has focused on studying the causes and effects of earthquakes in New England and vicinity, although he has also published papers on earthquake activity in other parts of the eastern United States and Canada, California, Europe, Mexico and the southwest Pacific. He also has conducted extensive research on methods for earthquake hazard computation and earthquake forecasting. Dr. Ebel has published one book and over 60 scientific papers, and he has presented over 150 professional talks on his research work, along with numerous technical reports submitted to government agencies or private firms. He has been a consultant to a number of private companies and government agencies, including Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, on seismic hazard and nuclear test ban treaty monitoring issues. He has been a consultant on seismic hazard for over 20 major engineering projects such as highway bridges,
LNG tanks, dams and other critical structures in the United States, the Bahamas, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jordan, Puerto Rico, Chile and Tunisia.

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