Thorne Lay

Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist. He was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1956, and raised in El Paso, Texas. He is a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Education

Lay received a B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1978, a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980, and a Ph.D. also from California Institute of Technology, in 1983.

Awards and academic honors

USTC Distinguished Lecture Series in Earth and Space Sciences, 2015 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer, 2015 Star on the Mountain Award, City of El Paso, Texas, 2015 Fessinger-Springer Memorial Lecture, University of Texas El Paso, 2015 Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2014 Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2014 Harry Fielding Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America, 2014 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2014 Gutenberg Lecturer of Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union, 2011 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008 Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Science 2002 Taiwan National Research Council Visiting Senior Scholar, 1997 Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, 1992 Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1991 Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1991