Emile A. Okal, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University
Role: Collaborates with Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor Suzan van der Lee on interpreting the vectorized legacy seismograms produced by the University of California, Davis.
Bio: Emile Okal is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University. His degrees are from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (M.S., 1972), and the California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1978). After teaching for 32 years at Northwestern, he remains active in research and keeps advising continuing graduate students in Seismology and other aspects of Geophysics.