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Education:

1976:

B.S., Geology, University of Missouri—Columbia

1983:

M.S., Geology, Stanford University

1985:

Ph.D., Geology, Stanford University

Professional Society Memberships:

• Geological Society of America
• American Geophysical Union
• Seismological Society of America
• American Quaternary Association
• Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists
• Colorado Scientific Society

Professional Experience:

1983-1985:

Geologist, ARCO Exploration Co., Dallas and Plano, Texas.

1985-1991:

Assistant to Associate Professor, Center for Earthquake Research and Information and Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.

1991-2008:

Geologist and Central and Eastern U.S. Regional Coordinator, Earthquake Hazards Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Memphis, Tennessee.

2008-present:

Director, Geology and Environmental Change Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado.

Research Interests:

• Natural hazards
• Active tectonics
• Paleoseismology
• Paleoclimate

Selected Publications:

• Myers, M.D., Ayers, M.A., Baron, J.S., Beauchemin, P.R., Gallagher, K.T., Goldhaber, M.B., Hutchinson, D.R., LaBaugh, J.W., Sayre, R.G., Schwarzbach, S.E., Schweig, E.S., Thormodsgard, J., van Riper III, C., Wilde, W., 2007, USGS Goals for the Coming Decade [479 KB PDF]: Science, v. 318, p. 200-201.
• Ayers, M.A., Baron, J.S., Beauchemin, P.R., Gallagher, K.T., Goldhaber, M.B., Hutchinson, D.R., LaBaugh, J.W., Sayre, R., Schwarzbach, S.E., Schweig, E.S., Thormodsgard, J., van Riper, C., III, and Wilde, W., 2007, Facing tomorrow's challenges—U.S. Geological Survey science in the decade 2007-2017: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1309, 68 p.
• Cramer, C.H., Gomberg, J.S., Schweig, E.S., Waldron, B.A., and Tucker, K., 2006, First USGS urban seismic hazard maps predict the effect of soils: Seismological Research Letters, v. 77, p. 23-29.
• Tuttle, M.P., Schweig, E.S., III, Campbell, Janice, Thomas, P.M., Sims, J.D., and Lafferty, R.H., III, 2005, Evidence for New Madrid earthquakes in A.D. 300 and 2350 B.C.: Seismological Research Letters, v. 76, no. 4, p. 489-501.
• Tuttle, M.P., Dyer-Williams, Kathleen, Schweig, E.S., Prentice, C.S., Moya, J.C., and Tucker, K.B., 2005, Liquefaction induced by historic and prehistoric earthquakes in western Puerto Rico [1.5 MB PDF], in Mann, Paul, ed., Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas: Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 263-276.
• Petersen, M.D., Rastogi, B.K., Schweig, E.S., Harmsen, S.C., and Gomberg, J.S., 2004, Sensitivity analysis of seismic hazard for the northwestern portion of the state of Gujarat, India [848 KB PDF], in Shedlock, K.M., Panza, G.F., and Chen, Y.T, eds., Strong Ground Motion, Earthquake Hazard and Risk in Alpine-Himalayan and Pacific Regions: Tectonophysics, v. 390, p. 105-115.
• Cramer, C.H., Gomberg, J.S., Schweig, E.S., Waldron, B.A., and Tucker, K., 2004, The Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, seismic hazard maps: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1294, 41 p.
• Atwater B.F., Tuttle, M.P., Schweig, E.S., Rubin, C.M., Yamaguchi, D.K., Hemphill-Haley, Eileen, 2004, Earthquake history from Paleoseismology [2.1 MB PDF], in Gillespie, A., Atwater, B.F., eds., The Quaternary of the United States, International Union of Quaternary Scientists (INQUA) review volume: Elsevier, p 331-350.
• Pratt T.L., Holmes, Mark, Schweig, E.S., Gomberg, Joan, and Cowan, H.A., 2003, High resolution seismic imaging of faults beneath Limón Bay, northern Panama Canal, Republic of Panama [2.9 MB PDF]: Tectonophysics, v. 368, p. 211-227.
• Gomberg, J., Waldron, B., Schweig, E.S., Hwang, H., Webbers, A., VanArsdale, R., Tucker, K., Williams, R., Street, R., Mayne, P., Stephenson, W., Odum, J., Cramer, C., Updike, R., Hutson, S., and Bradley, M., 2003, Lithology and Shear-wave Velocity in Memphis, Tennessee [1.7 MB PDF]: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, no. 3, p. 986-998.
• Schweig, E.S., III, Gomberg, J., Petersen, M., Ellis, M., Bodin, P., Mayrose, L., and Rastogi, B. K., 2003, The M 7.7 Bhuj earthquake: Global lessons for earthquake hazard in intraplate regions: Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 61, p. 277-282.
• Liao, T., Mayne, P.W., Tuttle, M.P., Schweig, E.S., and Van Arsdale, R.B., 2002, CPT site characterization for seismic hazards in New Madrid seismic zone [1.6 MB PDF]: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, v. 22, p. 943-950.
• Tuttle, M.P., Schweig, E.S., Sims, J.D., Lafferty, R.H., Wolf, L.W., and Haynes, M.L., 2002, The earthquake potential of the New Madrid seismic zone [3.7 MB PDF]: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 92, no. 6, p. 2080-2089.
• Cannon, S.H., Haller, K.M., Ekstrom, I., Schweig, E.S., III, Devoli, G., Moore, D.W., Rafferty, S.A., and Tarr, A.C., 2001, Landslide response to Hurricane Mitch rainfall in seven study areas in Nicaragua: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0412, 21 p., 7 oversized plates.
• Ellis, Michael, Gomberg, Joan, and Schweig, E.S., 2001, Indian earthquake may serve as analog for New Madrid earthquakes: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, v. 82, no. 32, p. 345, 350.
• Schweig, E.S., Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Patterson G., Davis, S., 2001, The internet: shaking up scientific communication [online article]: Nature 412.
• Tuttle, M.P., Sims, J.D., Dyer-Williams, K., Lafferty, R.H., III, and Schweig, E.S., III, 2000, Dating of liquefaction features in the New Madrid seismic zone [5.9 MB PDF]: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NUREG/GR-0018, 78 p.
• Tuttle, M.P., Lafferty, R.H., III, and Schweig, E.S., III, 1998, Dating of liquefaction features in the New Madrid seismic zone and implications for earthquake hazard: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NUREG/GR-0017, 77 p.
• Li, Yong, Schweig, E.S., Tuttle, M.P., and Ellis, M.A., 1998, Evidence for large prehistoric earthquakes in the northern New Madrid seismic zone, central United States [7.8 MB PDF]: Seismological Research Letters, v. 69, p. 270-276.
• Schweig, E.S. and Van Arsdale, R.B., 1997, Neotectonics of the upper Mississippi embayment [2.4 MB PDF]: Engineering Geology, v. 45, p. 185-203.
• Tuttle, M.P., Lafferty, R.H., III, Guccione, M.J., Schweig, E.S., III, Lopinot, N., Cande, R.F., Dyer-Williams, K., and Haynes, M., 1996, Use of Archaeology to date liquefaction features and seismic events in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States [3 MB PDF]: Geoarchaeology, v. 11, no. 6, p. 451-480.
• Johnston, A.C., and Schweig, E.S., 1996, The enigma of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 [889 KB PDF]: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 24, p. 339-384.
• Tuttle, M.P., and Schweig, E.S., 1996, Recognizing and dating prehistoric liquefaction features: lessons learned in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States [1.3 MB PDF]: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, no. B3, p. 6171-6178.
• Li, Yong, Craven, J., Schweig, E.S., and Obermeier, S.F., 1996, Sand boils induced by the 1993 Mississippi River flood: could they one day be misinterpreted as earthquake-induced liquefaction? [582 KB PDF]: Geology, v. 24, p. 171-174.
• Crone, A.J., Giardino, M., and Schweig, E.S., III, 1995, Paleoseismic studies of the Bootheel lineament, southeastern Missouri, and the Crittenden County fault zone, northeastern Arkansas, New Madrid seismic zone, central United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2279, 21 p.
• Van Arsdale, R.B., Williams, R.A., Schweig, E.S., Shedlock, K.M., Odum, J.K., and King, K.W., 1995, The origin of Crowley's Ridge, northeastern Arkansas: erosional remnant or tectonic uplift? [13.5 MB PDF]: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 85, no. 4, p. 963-985.
• Luzietti, E.A., Kanter, L.R., Shedlock, K.M., Schweig, E.S., and VanArsdale, R.B., 1995, Shallow deformation along the Crittenden County fault zone near the southeastern margin of the Reelfoot rift, northeast Arkansas: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1538-J, 23 p.
• Tuttle, M.P., and Schweig, E.S., 1995, Archeological and pedological evidence for large prehistoric earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States [393 KB PDF]: Geology, v. 23, no. 3, p. 253-256.
• Hildenbrand, T.G., Schweig, E.S., Catchings, R.D., Langenheim, V.E., Mooney, W.D., Pratt, T.L., and Stanley, W.D., 1995, Crustal geophysics gives insights into New Madrid seismic zone: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 76, no. 7, p. 65-69.
• Schweig, E.S., and Ellis, M.A., 1994, Reconciling short recurrence intervals with minor deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone [1.1 MB PDF]: Science, v. 264, no. 5163, p. 1308-1311.
• VanArsdale, R.B., Williams, R.A., Schweig, E.S., III, Shedlock, K.M., Kanter, L.R., and King K.W., 1994, Preliminary seismic reflection study of Crowley's Ridge, northeast Arkansas: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1538-C, 16 p.
• Rodbell, D.T., and Schweig, E.S., III, 1993, The record of seismically-induced liquefaction on late Quaternary terraces in northwestern Tennessee [2.8 MB PDF]: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 83, no. 1, p. 269-278.
• Schweig, E.S., III, Shen, F., Kanter, L.R., VanArsdale, R.B., Luzietti, E.A., Shedlock, K.M., and King K.W., 1992, Shallow seismic reflection survey of the Bootheel lineament area, southeastern Missouri: Seismological Research Letters, v. 63, p. 285-296.
• Schweig, E.S., III, Marple, R.T., and Li, Yong, 1992, An update of studies of the Bootheel lineament in the New Madrid seismic zone, southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas: Seismological Research Letters, v. 63, p. 277-284.
• VanArsdale, R.B., Schweig, E.S., Kanter, L.R., Shedlock, K.M., Williams, R., and King K.W., 1992, Shallow Seismic reflection surveys in the New Madrid seismic zone—Preliminary seismic reflection study of Crowley's Ridge, northeast Arkansas: Seismological Research Letters, v. 63, p. 309-320.
• Luzietti, E.A., Kanter, L.R., Schweig, E.S., Shedlock, K.M., and VanArsdale, R. B., 1992, Shallow deformation along the Crittenden County fault zone near the southeastern boundary of the Reelfoot rift, northeast Arkansas: Seismological Research Letters, v. 63, p. 263-276.
• Marple, R.T., and Schweig, E.S., III, 1992, Remote sensing of alluvial terrain in a humid, tectonically active setting: the New Madrid seismic zone [3.2 MB PDF]: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, v. 58, no. 2, p. 209-219.
• Schweig, E.S., III, and Marple, R.T., 1991, The Bootheel lineament: A possible coseismic fault of the great New Madrid earthquakes [569 KB PDF]: Geology, v. 19, p. 1025-1028.
• Schweig, E.S., III, 1991, The Bootheel lineament and its implications for earthquake risk in the New Madrid seismic zone: Proceedings, 34^th Annual Meeting Association of Engineering Geologists, p. 583-587.
• Schweig, E.S., III, VanArsdale, R.B., and Burroughs, R.K., 1991, Subsurface structure in the vicinity of an intraplate earthquake swarm, central Arkansas [877 KB PDF]: Tectonophysics, v.186, p. 107-114.
• VanArsdale, R.B., and Schweig, E.S., III, 1990, Subsurface structure of the eastern Arkoma basin [786 KB PDF]: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74, no. 7, p. 1030-1037.
• Schweig, E.S., III, 1989, Basin-range tectonics in the Darwin Plateau, southwestern Great Basin, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 652-662.
• Schweig, E.S., III, and Jibson, R.W., 1989, Surface effects of the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquake sequence and seismotectonics of the New Madrid seismic zone, western Tennessee, northeastern Arkansas, and southeastern Missouri, in Vineyard, J.D., and Wedge, W.K., eds., Geological Society of America 1989 Field Trip Guidebook: Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey Special Publication 5, p. 47-67.
• Wesnousky, S.G., Schweig, E.S., and Pezzopane, S.K., 1989, Extent and character of soil liquefaction during the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes [3.5 MB PDF], in Jacob, K. H., and Turkstra, C. J., eds., Earthquake hazards and the design of constructed facilities in the eastern United States: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 558, p. 208-216.
• Wesnousky, S.G., Schweig, E.S., and Pezzopane, S.K., 1987, Observations of soil liquefaction in the New Madrid seismic zone, in Jacob, K.H., ed., Proceedings, symposium on seismic hazards, ground motions, soil-liquefaction and engineering practice in eastern North America: National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research Technical Report NCEER-87-0025, p. 494-503.

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