Heather DeShon
Dr. Heather DeShon is a seismologist and Professor of Geophysics at Southern Methodist University. She specializes high-resolution earthquake location and imaging methods and currently serves as project lead for induced earthquake studies focused on understanding the causal factors and physical mechanisms leading to increased seismicity rates in Texas as extraction of oil and gas and the injection of waste fluids has increased. Dr. DeShon is Chair of the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences and currently serves as President of the Seismological Society of America. She is also amember of the US Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Mapping Program steering committee. She holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (Geophysics) from the University of California in Santa Cruz (2004).
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