About

2025-2026 Section Officers

President: Rachel Abercrombie (Boston University) Email

President-elect: Ed Garnero (Arizona State University) Email

Profile photo of Research Geophysicist Elizabeth Cochran
Secretary: Elizabeth Cochran (US Geological Survey) Email

Past President: Martha Savage (Victoria University of Wellington) Email

Early Career Members:
Yijian Zhou (California Institute of Technology) Email
Thanushika Gunatilake (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Email

Student Members:
Albert Kabanda (Northwestern University) Email
Cindy Lim (University of Bristol) Email

2025 AGU Fall Meeting Program Committee:
William Frank (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Email
Helen A Janiszewski (University of Hawaii) Email

Section Presidents

2025-2026 Rachel E. Abercrombie
2023-2024 Martha Savage
2021-2022 Suzan van der Lee
2019-2020 Anne Sheehan
2017-2018 Douglas A. Wiens
2015-2016 Gregory C. Beroza
2013-2014  Karen M. Fischer
2010-2012  Peter M. Shearer
2008-2010  Robert D. Van der Hilst
2006-2008  Walter D. Mooney
2004-2006  Paul G. Silver
2002-2004  John E. Vidale
2000-2002  Jeffrey J. Park
1998-2000  Guust Nolet
1996-1998  Barbara A. Romanowicz
1994-1996  David D. Jackson
1992-1994  Paul G. Richards
1990-1992  Robert B. Smith
1988-1990  Robert M. Hamilton
1986-1988  Stewart W. Smith
1984-1986  Lynn R. Sykes
1982-1984  Keiiti Aki
1980-1982  E. R. Engdahl
1978-1980  J. Freeman Gilbert

Section Secretaries

2025-2026 Elizabeth Cochran
2023-2024 German Andres Prieto Gomez
2021-2022 Colleen Dalton
2019-2020 Heather DeShon
2017-2018  Eliza Richardson
2015-2016  Miaki Ishii
2013-2014  Richard M. Allen
2010-2012  Suzan van der Lee
2008-2010  Douglas A. Wiens
2006-2008  Karen M. Fischer
2004-2006  John Ebel
2002-2004  W. Steven Holbrook
2000-2002  Gregory C. Beroza
1998-2000  Lucile M. Jones
1996-1998  Stephen P. Grand
1994-1996  Gary L. Pavlis
1992-1994  Vernon F. Cormier
1990-1992  David D. Jackson
1988-1990  Robert S. Crosson
1986-1988  Emile A. Okal
1984-1986  William L. Ellsworth
1982-1984  Thomas H. Jordan
1980-1982  Michael A. Chinnery

Student Representatives

2023-2024 Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, Vivian Rosas, Jing Ci Neo 
2022 Pritom Sarma, and Liam Toney
2021 Anant Hariharan, Pritom Sarma, Nate Stevens,and Liam Toney 
2020 Fransiska Dannemann Dugick, Anant Hariharan, and Hank Cole
2017-2019 Fransiska Dannemann Dugick, Neala Creasy, and Yuchen Wang
2015-2017 Celia Eddy
2013-2014 Caroline M. Eakin 
2011-2013 Anna Foster 

Early-career Representatives

2024-2025 Thanushika Gunatilak, Yijian Zhou 
2023-2024 Shihao Yuan
2021-2022 Jiaqi Li