Lisa A Wald
Geophysicist in the Pasadena, CA USGS Office for 15 years, and Golden, CO since 2002. Web Content Manager for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) website, the Landslide Hazards Program website, and the Geomagnetism website, member of Natural Hazards Mission web team.
Biography
Computer/Software Experience
- HTML5, CSS3, CODA, ATOM, GIT, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN, FIREWORKS, WordPress, Microsoft Office.
Skills
- Manage multiple complex projects involving scientists, IT specialists, graphic designers, and student interns, determine priorities, allocate resources, and assign tasks.
- Diplomatic leader with ability to create an enthusiastic and cooperative staff.
- Very organized and detail-oriented.
- Interpret and write scientific content for various non-technical audiences for web and print publications.
- Familiarity with information architecture, product usability, and software product development.
- Create, process, and optimize graphics and images for web and print publications.
- Design and layout of web and print publications.
- Websites-specific - Information architecture, user experience, design and layout, personas, wireframes, mockups, HTML, CSS, Wordpress.
Relevant Experience in Education & Outreach/Coordination and Graphic Design & Layout/Communications
- Created and coordinated an Education & Outreach Program for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Team office in Pasadena, CA with no budget; created USGS Public Lecture Series, created and lead Teacher Workshops to teach teachers how to teach classrooms about earthquakes with hands-on materials.
- Created classroom activities for K-6 to teach about various earthquake science.
- Forged a partnership with the KidSpace Museum in Pasadena, CA, and served as a scientific consultant for their new hands-on earthquake exhibit; worked with exhibit designers.
- Created and presented hands-on talks/presentations about earthquakes to K-6 classrooms and community organizations throughout the Los Angeles Metropolitan area.
- Coordinated several-year long project to completely redesign the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program website, which involved several 1000 webpages, and web developers spread in several offices throughout the US.
- Coordinated USGS “booths” at local, regional, and national meetings and answered questions.
- Author and co-author, and graphic design and layout of many USGS Fact Sheets, which are publications that communicate science to the general public; general 5000-10,000 copies printed at a time often with second printings.
- Created posters, flyers, and brochures for Pasadena and Golden USGS office events, internal and public.
Science Communications Articles for a Non-Technical Audience
Science and Products
Science for Everyone
Science briefs about new landslides research written for non-scientists.
Science for Everyone
Science briefs about new geomagnetism research written for non-scientists.
Geologic Cracks Record Earthquakes on the Reelfoot Fault in Central U.S.
Release Date: APRIL 25, 2019
New high-resolution lidar data reveals cracks produced from strong shaking in past earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone.
Preserving Historic Earthquake Records and Photos of the Instruments that Recorded Them
Release Date: FEBRUARY 4, 2019
A project to scan a small selection of the film chips of historical earthquake recordings to digital files was started in 1996. In addition to archiving historic data from the early years, the USGS has also worked to archive photos and descriptions of early seismometers.
Collection of 3D Geometries of Global Subduction Zones
Release Date: NOVEMBER 12, 2018
A new picture of the geometry of subducting slabs around the world, the locations of the world’s largest earthquakes.
Debris-Flow Forecasts Before Wildfires
Release Date: OCTOBER 15, 2018
USGS scientists have been pursuing a way to assess debris-flow hazards before a fire occurs.
New Methods for Dating and Sequencing Ancient Earthquakes Along the Wasatch Fault Zone
Release Date: OCTOBER 12, 2018
Complex geologic sites, like those between the fault segments along the Wasatch fault zone in Utah, make the dating and ordering past earthquakes a difficult task. Two new methods were used to make this task easier and to get better results.
A New Map of Rodgers Creek Fault in Sonoma County, California
Release Date: JULY 16, 2018
A new more detailed and higher resolution map of the Rodgers Creek Fault in Sonoma County, California, has been produced using aerial photography and hillshade imagery derived from LiDAR data.
Near Realtime Maps of Possible Earthquake-Triggered Landslides
Release Date: JUNE 25, 2018
USGS scientists have been developing a system to quickly identify areas where landslides may have been triggered by a significant earthquake.
A Possible Cause of Earthquakes in the Continental Interior
Release Date: JUNE 18, 2018
A new map of crustal stress across the U.S. shows that the plate interior stress is variable, with contributions from plate boundary stress, crustal collapse due to gravity, and more local and subtle changes to style, orientation, and earthquake rate.
Mountain Permafrost, Climate Change, and Rock Avalanches in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Release Date: JUNE 18, 2018
We usually hear about landslides and avalanches that are caused by large amounts of rainfall, the shaking from earthquakes, or a volcanic eruption, but we may be hearing more about avalanches caused by the (seemingly innocuous) melting of ice in the coming years.
Slow-Motion Landslides
Release Date: JUNE 11, 2018
Sluggishly-moving earthflows can help us learn what controls the starting and stopping of landslides.
Get your science used—Six guidelines to improve your products
Introduction Natural scientists, like many other experts, face challenges when communicating to people outside their fields of expertise. This is especially true when they try to communicate to those whose background, knowledge, and experience are far distant from that field of expertise. At a recent workshop, experts in risk communication offered...
Perry, Suzanne C.; Blanpied, Michael L.; Burkett, Erin R.; Campbell, Nnenia M.; Carlson, Anders; Cox, Dale A.; Driedger, Carolyn L.; Eisenman, David P.; Fox-Glassman, Katherine T.; Hoffman, Sherry; Hoffman, Susanna M.; Jaiswal, Kishor S.; Jones, Lucile M.; Luco, Nicolas; Marx, Sabine M.; McGowan, Sean M.; Mileti, Dennis S.; Moschetti, Morgan P.; Ozman, David; Pastor, Elizabeth; Petersen, Mark D.; Porter, Keith A.; Ramsey, David W.; Ritchie, Liesel A.; Fitzpatrick, Jessica K.; Rukstales, Kenneth S.; Sellnow, Timothy L.; Vaughon, Wendy L.; Wald, David J.; Wald, Lisa A.; Wein, Anne; Zarcadoolas, Christina
Rapid characterization of the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake sequence and its seismotectonic context
Earthquake response and related information products are important for placing recent seismic events into context and particularly for understanding the impact earthquakes can have on the regional community and its infrastructure. These tools are even more useful if they are available quickly, ahead of detailed information from the areas affected...
Hayes, Gavin; Briggs, Richard W.; Barnhart, William D.; Yeck, William L.; McNamara, Daniel E.; Wald, David J.; Nealy, Jennifer; Benz, Harley M.; Gold, Ryan D.; Jaiswal, Kishor S.; Marano, Kristin; Earle, Paul S.; Hearne, Mike; Smoczyk, Gregory M.; Wald, Lisa A.; Samsonov, Sergey "Report a Landslide” A website to engage the public in identifying geologic hazards
Direct observation by people is the most practical way of identifying, locating, and describing most damaging landslides. In an effort to increase public awareness of landslide hazards and encourage public participation in collecting basic data about landslides, the USGS recently launched a website called “Report a landslide.” The website is...
Baum, Rex L.; Highland, Lynn M.; Lyttle, Peter T.; Fee, Jeremy; Martinez, Eric; Wald, Lisa A. The USGS Earthquake Notification Service (ENS): Customizable notifications of earthquakes around the globe
At the beginning of 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) introduced a new automated Earthquake Notification Service (ENS) to take the place of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) "Bigquake" system and the various other individual EHP e-mail list-servers for separate regions in the United States....
Wald, Lisa A.; Wald, David J.; Schwarz, Stan; Presgrave, Bruce; Earle, Paul S.; Martinez, Eric; Oppenheimer, David
Technical-information products for a National Volcano Early Warning System
Technical outreach — distinct from general-interest and K-12 educational outreach — for volcanic hazards is aimed at providing usable scientific information about potential or ongoing volcanic activity to public officials, businesses, and individuals in support of their response, preparedness, and mitigation efforts. Within the context of a...
Guffanti, Marianne C.; Brantley, Steven R.; Cervelli, Peter F.; Nye, Christopher J.; Serafino, George N.; Siebert, Lee; Venezky, Dina Y.; Wald, Lisa A.
Urban seismic hazard mapping for Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Earthquakes cannot be predicted, but scientists can forecast how strongly the ground is likely to shake as a result of an earthquake. Seismic hazard maps provide one way of conveying such forecasts. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which produces seismic hazard maps for the Nation, is now engaged in developing more detailed maps for vulnerable...
Gomberg, Joan
Earthquake information products and tools from the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS)
This Fact Sheet provides a brief description of postearthquake tools and products provided by the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) through the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. The focus is on products specifically aimed at providing situational awareness in the period immediately following significant earthquake events.
Wald, Lisa
Rupture in south-central Alaska; the Denali Fault earthquake of 2002
Fuis, Gary S.; Wald, Lisa A.; Hendley, James W.; Stauffer, Peter H.
The Southern California Network Bulletin; January - December 1994
Wald, Lisa A.; Hafner, Katrin N.; Bryant, A. Steve
The Southern California Network Bulletin, January-December 1991
Wald, Lisa A.; Hutton, L.K.; Jones, L.M.; Given, D.D.; Douglass, Katrin; Mori, J.J.; Hauksson, Egill; Kanamori, Hiroo