CERI offers a variety of research opportunities in graduate studies. Fields of interest include:
Active Tectonics
Earthquake Engineering
Geodesy
Geomorphology
Geophysics
Paleoseismology
Seismic Hazards
Seismology
Strong Ground Motion
CERI's dedicated faculty, researchers, and staff have the knowledge, experience, and programs to get you where you want to be.
Interested in travel? CERI faculty and staff conduct research all over the world, including:
China
South America
Antarctica
Taiwan
Puerto Rico
India
Africa
Central America
New Zealand
Japan
Tibet
Europe
And many locations in the good ol' U. S. of A.
CERI's faculty, researchers, and staff are dedicated to the study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone and they have the knowledge, experience, and programs to get you where you want to be.
What is the New Madrid Seismic Zone?
It is an active intraplate region where three earthquakes, probably larger than M8, and eighteen larger than M6, produced ground motion that tore up a huge tract of the central U.S. in 1811-1812. An immense area of liquefaction buried forests, blew up Native American homes, and disrupted commerce on the Mississippi River.
It is impossible to untangle the active intraplate enigma by looking in just one region, so our faculty conduct field research investigations around the world. You could get to travel widely to help us solve pieces of the puzzle.
CERI has a dozen faculty researchers and several more Ph.D. research and support staff. It is a core institution of the Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAEC), which supports projects characterizing potential effect on engineered structures in the central and eastern U.S.
