Thorne Lay

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Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist.^[1] 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.^[2]

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. ^[3]

• USTC Distinguished Lecture Series in Earth and Space Sciences, 2015^[3]
• 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

• "Thorne Lay". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
• "People - UC Santa Cruz Seismology Laboratory". websites.pmc.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-23.