Greg Lyzenga

Greg has been a member of the Quakesim team since its inception as one of the principal uthors of the GeoFEST tectonic finite element modeling code. He has been a member of the technical staff at JPL working on (among other things) GeoFEST and its ancestor finite element codes since 1980. He is currently involved in applying 3-D and parallel computing capabilities of GeoFEST to large-scale deformation simulations of southern and central California.

Greg received his B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1975. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Caltech in 1977 and 1980 respectively. He became a JPL staff member in 1980, continuing to the present. In 1990 he became a professor of Physics at Harvey Mudd College, where in addition to teaching a wide array of undergraduate physics courses, he carries out geophysical research using both numerical and GPS geodetic methods.

• Quakesim Computational Technology project
• Numerical simulations of L.A. Basin and central California
• Advanced development of finite element physics for fault and tectonic simulations

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 126-347
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 90089-8099

Phone
818.354.6920
818.393.5471 (fax)

Email
Gregory.A.Lyzenga@jpl.nasa.gov

• Glasscoe, M.T., Donnellan, A., Kellogg, L.H., and Lyzenga, G.A., 2004, Evidence of strain partitioning between the Sierra Madre fault and the Los Angeles Basin, southern California from numerical models, in press, Pure and Applied Geophysics.

• NASA New Technology Award (1986)
• NASA Group Achievement Award (1989)
• NASA New Technology Award (1990)
• NASA New Technology Award (2002)
• NASA Space Act Award (2003)

JPL
Section 367 - Data Understanding Systems

Harvey Mudd College
Professor of Physics

Other
American Geophysical Union
American Association for the Advancement of Science