Mark D. Zoback
Professor of Geophysics
Mitchell Building, room 359
Stanford, CA 94305-2215
email: zoback@stanford.edu
phone: (650) 725-9295
fax: (650) 725-7344
ACADEMIC HISTORY
1969 B.S. Geophysics, University of Arizona
1973 M.S. Geophysics, Stanford University
1975 Ph.D. Geophysics, Stanford University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1969-1971 Geophysicist at Amoco Production Co.
1971-1973 Research Assistant, Stanford University
1973-1975 Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey
1975 Visiting Scientist, Rhur University, Bochum, Germany
1975-1976 Research Associate, National Research Council Post-Doctoral
Fellowship
1976-1984 Geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey
1976-1980 Chief, In-Situ Stress Measurement Project
1980-1981 Deputy Chief, Office of Earthquake Studies
1981-1984 Chief, Branch of Tectonophysics
1984-present Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University
1991-1997 Chairman, Dept. of Geophysics, Stanford University
CLASSES TAUGHT
SME-1 Science,
Math, and Engineering 1 (Earth Resources and the Sustainability
of Life)
GP-202 Reservoir Geomechanics
GP-170 Enviromental and Geotechnical Geophysics
GP-290 Tectonophysics (The physics of faulting and plate
tectonics)
GP-385K,L Research Seminars in Borehole Geophysics and Tectonophysics
PUBLISHED
PAPERS AND CV
RESEARCH
The Stanford
Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Project (SRB)
Stress
and Crustal Mechanics Group
SAFOD - San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
Modeling
flexural stresses in the North Sea
Geophysics
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