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	Dr. Larry Braile
	Professor
	E-mail: braile@purdue.edu
	Curriculum Vitae <pdf>
	Associated website(s): Geodynamics & Active Tectonics (GAT) Personal Website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/

 

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Education

Ph.D., University of Utah

Research Interests

Seismology, crustal and upper mantle structure, inversion of geophysical data, intraplate earthquakes, Earth science education.

Teaching Interests

EAS 100 Planet Earth

EAS 309 Computer Aided Analysis for Geos

EAS 509 Data Analysis Techniques in EAS

EAS 553 Seismic Exploration

Awards/Honors Appointment/Elections

• 1998 - Excellence in Geophysical Education award (AGU)

Selected Publications

• Jiracek, G.R., W.S. Baldridge, A.J.Sussman, Shawn Biehler, L.W.Braile, J.F.Ferguson, B.E. Gilpin, D.K. McPhee, and Louise Pellerin, SAGE celebrates 25 years of learning geophysics by doing geophysics, The Leading Edge, p. 1340-1344, October, 2008.

• Hubenthal, Michael, Larry Braile, and John Taber, Redefining Earthquakes, The Science Teacher, p. 32-36, January, 2008 (peer reviewed)

• Braile, L.W., Michelle Hall-Wallace, Rick Aster and John Taber, The IRIS education and outreach program plan, in press, Seismological Research Letters, 74, 2003, 503-510 (peer reviewed).

• Jones, Alan, L.W.Braile and S.J.Braile, A suite of educational computer programs for seismology, in press, Seismological Research Letters, , 74, 2003, 605-617 (peer reviewed).

• Braile, L.W., R.W.Ridky and B.A.Bolt, Earthquakes ad Plate Boundaries, AGI EarthInquiry education module, Freeman, New York, 2002, 12 pages.

• Braile, L.W., Michelle Hall-Wallace, Rick Aster and John Taber (editors), L.W. Braile and others, (contributing authors), Making Waves: the IRIS Education and Outreach Program Plan, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington DC, 2002, 51 pages.

• Braile, L.W., Images of Earth (review of Earth science books for children), Nature, 408, November 30, 2000, 521-522.
  

• Braile, L.W., Earth science activities on the internet (the equivalent of over 300 pages of figures and text in over 20 educational modules, mostly seismology and plate tectonics related), web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile, 2000.

• Braile, L.W.: Seismic waves and the slinky: A guide for teachers, informal publication, 2000, 35 pages.

• Boone, W.J., G.H Krockover, L.W. Braile, and A.M. Rizzo: An analysis of Earth science content empha-sis as related to the National Science Education Standards, The Hoosier Science Teacher, 25, March, 69-79, 2000.

• Jiracek, G.R., W.S. Baldridge, S. Biehler, L.W. Braile, J.F. Ferguson, B.E. Gilpin, and D.L.Alumbaugh, SAGE: Learning geophysics by immersion, The Leading Edge, 19, September, 986-990, 2000.

• Chair of the IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) Education and Outreach Committee, 1996-2001. USGS National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Central Region, proposal review panel, August, 2000. NSF/EHR/ESIE Teacher Enhancement Program, proposal review panel, November, 2001.

• Brehm, D.J. and L.W. Braile (1999). Intermediate-term earthquake prediction using the modified time-to-failure method in southern California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 89, 275-293.