Seismicity, integrated regional/urban real-time seismic monitoring, and earthquake hazard analysis in Utah and adjacent regions; coal-mining-induced seismicity; national and state public policy making for U.S. network seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation. Member (since 1994) and past chair, Utah Seismic Safety Commission; member, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction; member, Utah Mine Safety Technical Advisory Council; Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS): member, ANSS National Implementation Committee and regional coordinator, ANSS Intermountain West (IMW) Region.
SELECTED AWARDS
• Western States Seismic Policy Council Lifetime Achievement Award in Earthquake Risk Reduction, 2008
• John Wesley Powell Award, U.S. Geological Survey, 2007
• Boston College Alumni Award of Excellence for Science, 2006
• Outstanding Service Award, Utah Seismic Safety Commission, 2001
• Governor's Medal for Science and Technology, State of Utah, 1996
Pankow, K. L., Arabasz, W. J., and Burlacu, R., 2009, Seismicity and seismotectonic issues of western Utah: Utah Geological Association Publication 37 (in press).
Pechmann, J. C., Arabasz, W. J., Pankow, K. L., Burlacu, R., and McCarter, M. K., 2008, Seismological report on the 6 August 2007 Crandall Canyon mine collapse in Utah: Seismological Research Letters, v. 79, no. 5, p. 620–636; doi: 10.1785/gssrl.79.5.620.
Pankow, K., McCarter, M, and Arabasz, W., 2008, Coal-mining-induced seismicity in Utah—Improving spatial resolution using double-difference relocations, in Proceedings, 27th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, Morgantown, West Virginia, July 2008: Morgantown, West Virginia University, p. 91–97.
Arabasz, W. J., Burlacu, R., and Pankow, K. L., 2007, An overview of historical and contemporary seismicity in central Utah, in Willis, G. C., Hylland, M. D., Clark, D. L., and Chidsey, T. C., Jr., eds., Central Utah—Diverse Geology of a Dynamic Landscape: Utah Geological Association Publication 36, p. 237–253.
Pankow, K. L., Pechmann, J. C., and Arabasz, W. J., 2007, Use of ANSS strong-motion data to analyze small local earthquakes: Seismological Research Letters, v. 78, no. 3, p. 369–374; doi: 10.1785/gssrl.78.3.369.
Arabasz, W. J., Nava, S. J., McCarter, M. K., Pankow, K. L., Pechmann, J. C., Ake, J., and McGarr, A., 2005, Coal-mining seismicity and ground-shaking hazard—A case study in the Trail Mountain Area, Emery County, Utah: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 95, no. 1, p.18–30; doi: 10.1785/0120040045.
Pankow, K. L., Arabasz, W. J., Pechmann, J. C., and Nava, S. J., 2004, Triggered seismicity in Utah from the November 3, 2002, Denali Fault earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 94, no. 6B, p. S332–S347; doi: 10.1785/0120040609.
Youngs, R. R. [and multiple authors, including W. J. Arabasz], 2003, Probabilistic fault displacement hazard analysis (PFDHA): Earthquake Spectra, v. 19, p. 191-219; doi: 10.1193/1.1.1542891.
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