John Orcutt

Deputy Director of Research & Professor, SIO

In addition to serving as Deputy Director of Research for Scripps, Dr. Orcutt is also the Director of the UCSD Center for Earth Observations & Applications. He graduated from Annapolis (1966) and received his PhD in Earth Sciences from Scripps (1976). He is President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and was a member of the Science Advisory Panel to the Ocean Policy Commission. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. His research interests are seismology and the use of information technology in integrating sensor networks; he has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers.

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