Keynote: David Applegate

Mon. 10:30-11:15 a.m., Interlocken A/B

David Applegate is the associate director for natural hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey. In that role, he leads the Coastal and Marine Geology, Earthquake Hazards, Global Seismographic Network, Geomagnetism, Landslide Hazards, and Volcano Hazards Programs and coordinates USGS hazards planning and response activities. He also co-chairs the National Science and Technology Council's interagency Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction.

Applegate is an adjunct full professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Geology and Geophysics. Prior to joining USGS in 2004, he spent eight years at the American Geological Institute as director of government affairs and, for the last four years there, as the editor of Geotimes (AGI's news magazine of the earth sciences, now renamed Earth). Before coming to AGI, Applegate served with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources as the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Science Fellow and as a professional staff member for the minority.

Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Applegate holds a BS in geology from Yale University and a PhD, also in geology, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.