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Mark Benthien
Director
of Communication, Education and Outreach
Southern California Earthquake Center, an NSF/USGS Center
University of Southern California
3651 Trousdale Parkway, Ste. 169
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0742
Web:
www.scec.org
e-mail:
benthien@usc.edu
phone: 213-740-0323
cell: 213-740-0323
fax: 213-740-0011
His
biography follows:
Mark
Benthien is Director for Communication, Education and Outreach
(CEO) for the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC),
headquartered at the University of Southern California (USC). Mr.
Benthien received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geophysics from the
University of California Los Angeles in 1995, and a Master of Public
Policy degree from the USC in 2003. As director for SCEC’s CEO
program, Mr. Benthien communicates earthquake knowledge to end-users
and the general public in order to increase earthquake awareness,
reduce economic losses, and save lives.
To do this he:
1) coordinates
productive interactions among SCEC scientists and with partners in
science, engineering, risk management, government, business, and
education;
2) manages activities that increase earthquake knowledge
and science literacy at all educational levels;
3) leads efforts to
improve earthquake hazard and risk assessments; and
4)promotes
earthquake preparedness, mitigation, and planning for response and
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