Thorne Lay

Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist. He was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1956, and raised in El Paso, Texas. He is a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Education
Lay received a B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1978, a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980, and a  Ph.D. also from  California Institute of Technology, in 1983.

Awards and academic honors

 * USTC Distinguished Lecture Series in Earth and Space Sciences, 2015
 * IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer, 2015
 * Star on the Mountain Award, City of El Paso, Texas, 2015
 * Fessinger-Springer Memorial Lecture, University of Texas El Paso, 2015
 * Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2014
 * Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2014
 * Harry Fielding Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America, 2014
 * Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2014
 * Gutenberg Lecturer of Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union, 2011
 * Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009
 * Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
 * Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Science 2002
 * Taiwan National Research Council Visiting Senior Scholar, 1997
 * Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, 1992
 * Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1991
 * Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1991