Thomas Hillman Jordan, Director, Southern California Earthquake Center, and W. M. Keck Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Jordan directs the Southern California Earthquake Center, a distributed organization involving more than 60 universities and research institutions. His research is focused on system-level models of earthquake processes, earthquake forecasting and forecast-evaluation, and full-3D waveform tomography. His other scientific interests include continental formation and tectonic evolution, mantle dynamics, and statistical descriptions of geologic phenomena. He is an author on approximately 190 scientific publications, including two popular textbooks. He currently chairs the International Commission on Earthquake Forecasting for Civil Protection, is a member of the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, and serves on the Governing Board of the National Research Council. Jordan received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1972.