Issue 125 – July 2022
NEWS: WORTHY

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones to Deliver Closing Keynote at Educational Forum
The California JPIA is pleased to announce that the closing keynote speaker at the 27th Annual Risk Management Educational Forum will be Dr. Lucy Jones. Dr. Jones is one of the foremost authorities on earthquakes and seismology. She is widely recognized for her expertise, especially in Southern California.
She is the founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, whose mission is to foster the understanding and application of scientific information in creating more resilient communities. She is the author of the book “The Big Ones” and is also a research associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech – a post she has held since 1984.
Working with both the public and private sectors, Dr. Jones seeks to increase communities’ ability to adapt and be resilient to the dynamic changes of the world around them. The aim is for communities to understand where their most significant vulnerabilities lie and what cost-effective actions can be taken to reduce the risk.
Dr. Jones earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Literature from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from MIT. She has been active in earthquake research for decades, furthering earthquake risk reduction through seismological research and integrated disaster scenarios.
This year’s Forum, Adventures in Risk Management, will be held at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort from October 5-7, 2022. Registration for the Forum is currently open. For questions about the Forum, send us an email.
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