Dr. Chris Cramer, associate research professor at the Center for Earthquake Research Information at the University of Memphis, is presenting the keynote address at the 94^th annual meeting of the Arkansas Academy of Science hosted by UALR today and Saturday. The topic of his presentation will be earthquake hazards in the central United States.

The conference opened at UALR’s Donaghey Student Center, followed by poster sessions and oral presentations.  About 300 researchers, faculty and students, from universities and research institutes across Arkansas, are attending.

Cramer will deliver the keynote address at 5 p.m. in Dickinson Hall Auditorium on the campus at UALR.  His presentation is open to the public, although seating will be limited. The conference continues at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 10, with oral presentations and the awarding of prizes, and concludes at 1 p.m. following an AAS Membership Meeting.

Cramer worked for 23 years for the California Division of Mines and Geology (now California Geological Survey) and 7 years for the U.S. Geological Survey prior to coming to work for CERI at the University of Memphis. He worked in several areas of seismology, including probabilistic earthquake hazard and risk, strong ground motion and the effects of site geology, earthquakes and volcanoes, and field seismological studies of geothermal areas, aftershock sequences, reservoir induced seismicity, and the earthquake activity potential of faults.

He also has extensive experience with programming and using computer systems to process, model, and interpret geophysical data. As an undergraduate and during his first two years as a graduate student, Cramer worked on geophysical problems and did field work in the areas of gravity, magnetism, and geodesy.