Louise H. Kellogg

Department of Geology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
e-mail: kellogg@geology.ucdavis.edu

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Geological Sciences, Cornell University , 1988
Master of Engineering, Engineering Physics, Cornell University , 1985
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1982
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Cornell University , 1982

Professional Experience

Chair, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, 2000 - present.
Presidental Chair (co-holder with Prof. Bernd Hamann) 2006-2009.
Professor of Geology, University of California, Davis, 1998 - present.
Director, W. M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences.
Member, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics, UC Davis.
Visiting Professor, ENS Lyon, July 2003.
Associate Professor of Geology, University of California, Davis, 1993 - 1998.
Assistant Professor of Geology, University of California, Davis, 1990 - 1993.
Myron C. Bantrell Research Fellow in Geochemistry and Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1988 - 1990.
Predoctoral researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 1986.

Selected Professional Activities

US National Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, National Research Council, 2001-2006, Chair 2006-2009.
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council, member 2007-2009.
Science Steering Committee, Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics, 2006-2009.
Chair, Steering Committee for a New Science Plan for Cooperative Studies of Earth’s Deep Interior, 2003-2004.
Virginia Tech NSF ADVANCE Program Leadership Seminar Series Speaker, 2004.
Chair, National Science Foundation Workshop on Frontiers of Mathematical Geosciences, 2001.
Phillips/Association of Women Geoscientists Distinguished Speaker, 1995, 2001.
Chair, NSF Workshop on Frontiers of Mathematical Geosciences, 2001.
Editorial Board, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1998-present.
American Geophysical Union, Tectonophysics Section Secretary, 1998-2000.
Editorial Board, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1998-present.

Arts collaboration

COLLAPSE: Suddenly Falling Down, a performance at the Mondavi Center by Della Davidson's SideShow Physical Theater featuring a unique Art-Science-Technology collaboration, October-November 2007

This performance was part of the Mondavi Center's 2007 Creativity Project.

June 8, 2007, report in Dateline
October 12, 2007, report Dateline
Podcast by Della Davidson
Sideshow Physical Theater
Review in the Sacramento Bee

Honors

Chancellor's Award for Diversity and Community, 2005.
Co-holder of the UC Presidential Chair for Undergraduate Education (2006-2009).
Francis Birch Lecture, American Geophysical Union, Fall 2001.
Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, 1992 (National Science Foundation).
Myron C. Bantrell Research Fellow in Geochemistry and Geophysics, Caltech, 1988.

Memberships

American Geophysical Union
AGU activities include:

Geological Society of America
Sigma Xi
Association of Women Geoscientists Speaker's Bureau

Publications

Last updated: December 29, 2007

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