Tag: John H. Shaw

  • Campus & Community

    John H. Shaw named vice provost for research

    John H. Shaw, a prominent geologist and applied geophysicist, has been named the University’s next vice provost for research.

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    John Shaw.
  • Campus & Community

    John H. Shaw steps down

    John H. Shaw, the Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology, steps down at the end of June, having served as chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences since 2006.

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    John Shaw against a black and rainbow background
  • Science & Tech

    New earthquake mapping system could save lives

    “The earthquake-hazard maps currently in use are based on the premise that the closer a building is to a large fault, the better designed it should be,” says Harvard earthquake expert John Shaw. “But what these new, comprehensive 3-D models we’ve developed tell us is that this basic rule of proximity doesn’t always work.” A…

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  • Science & Tech

    Discovering a new earthquake fault under Los Angeles

    “Los Angeles is caught in a vise,” says John Shaw, an associate professor of structural and economic geology at Harvard who was half of a research team that discovered a large, active crack in the earth, capable of causing destructive earthquakes, under Los Angeles. The researchers announced their discovery in March 1999. The crack, or…

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