2008 Lawson Lecture

Speaker: Roland Burgmann, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

The Lawson Lecture is a public lecture sponsored by the Seismological Laboratory, held in April. The lecture series was inaugurated in 2003 as part of the Seismological Laboratory's plans for commemorating the 1906 earthquake. The lecture series is meant to address a wide variety of earthquake issues of interest to the Berkeley community.

The lecture series is named for Professor Andrew Lawson, who was appointed to the Department of Geology at UC Berkeley in 1890. In 1906, as Chairman of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, he organized an extensive field program, to which many geologists contributed their services, and prepared the one of the most complete and informative reports ever published on a great earthquake.