Tom Rockwell - UCSB Distinguished Alumni 2007

Professor Tom Rockwell has been selected as the Distinguished Alumni for 2007 by the Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara. Tom recieved his Ph.D. from UCSB in 1983. Each year, the department of Earth Sciences selects two alumni, one from academia and the other from the public sector or industry, to join a select group of their most distinguished alumni. Tom has been here at SDSU for 24 years, his research focus has been split between general neotectonic studies and the more specialized subfield of paleoseismology. He has advised over two dozen Master and Undergraduate Students.