Paul Segall
Paul Segall is the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Geophysics and chair of the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He is a geophysicist recognized for his work on earthquake and volcanic processes. He is known for developing methods for utilizing deformations of the earth鈥檚 crust, determined by both space and ground-based sensors, to reveal fault slip and magma chamber dilation at depth in the earth, and for developing physics-based models of faults and magmatic systems.
Segall worked at the U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Earthquake Studies for 12 years before joining the Stanford faculty. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal and the Charles A. Whitten Medal of the American Geophysical Union. He received a Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford.