Earthquakes and Early Warnings
in the Bay Area

Dr. Douglas S. Dreger
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley Associate Director, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Dr. Douglas S. Dreger received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1992 for his work on Broadband Waveform Modeling. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California since 1996. Since 2002 he has served as Associate Director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, where his responsibilities include the management of the high resolution borehole seismic networks. His research includes 3D seismic wave propagation for strong ground motion simulation, earthquake source studies, seismic nuclear discrimination, and the development of automated seismic processing systems for emergency response applications. Methods he has developed are currently employed by the Japanese NIED, Italian INGV, Greek Aristotle University, Swiss ETH, University of Utah, University of Alaska, the Joint UC Berkeley, Caltech, USGS California Integrated Seismic Network., as well as individual researchers around the globe. He has published 86 papers in peer-reviewed journals on these subjects. He has served as an advisor on the Golden Gate Bridge Seismic Instrumentation Committee, and currently serves on the board of directors for the Consortium of Strong Motion Observations Systems (COSMOS).

Dr. Gilead Wurman
Chief Seismologist, Seismic Warning Systems, Inc.
Dr. Wurman has been active in the seismological community for 11 years. He received a B.S. in Geophysics from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science from UC Berkeley. He spent three years developing the ElarmS earthquake warning system for use in Northern California, and helped to implement ElarmS for realtime testing that is currently underway in a collaboration between Berkeley, Caltech, the USGS and the Southern California Earthquake Center.

Mr. Michael Price
COO/CTO, Seismic Warning Systems, Inc.
Mr. Price has over 33 years of product design and development management experience. He was previously Sr. VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Emu Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end electronic musical instruments where he was responsible for all product design, R&D, manufacturing, service, and IT. He was also responsible for the initiation and development of a highly successful consumer audio product line, the precursor of the iPod, for Creative Technology, the parent company of Emu. Mr. Price was previously VP of Engineering at Pixar, a 3D computer graphics and animation company, and part of the original startup team at Valid Logic Systems, a computer-aided engineering SW company for which he was VP Engineering. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard designing test equipment and managing a SW engineering team. Mr. Price has a BSEE from Carnegie-Mellon University followed by graduate studies at the University of Colorado and Stanford University.