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= Annemarie Baltay = Annemarie Baltay (full name: Annemarie Baltay Sundstrom) is an earthquake scientist whose expertise centers on Earthquake Ground Motion and its indications to the source and various physical parameters. She is currently working as a research geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center.

Early Life & Education
Baltay always had a great passion for the natural world and mathematics. She graduated in 2005 with a B.A degree in Applied Mathematics (concentrating on geophysics) at Yale University which effectively paved the way for her graduate studies in earthquake seismology. She received her master's degree from the Department of Geophysics in Stanford University in 2008 and also completed her Ph.D. there in 2011 with Gregory Beroza as her advisor. In Baltay’s doctoral dissertation in Stanford University, Precise Earthquake Source Parameter Estimation, she successfully estimated these source parameters from seismic energies and illustrates how earthquakes are self-similar and thus it becomes practical to learn about large earthquake behavior by studying the small to medium sized events.

After graduation, Baltay first worked as a postdoctoral fellow at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, CA and then became a permanent research seismologist there. She was a recipient of the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award from the Seismological Society of America (SSA) in 2017, which honors the outstanding scientists/ researchers in the SSA.

Career & Research
Baltay worked as a graduate student researcher through National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Tokyo in 2009. In 2010, she attended the summer internship for Europe Earthquake Model Development at Risk Management Solutions in Newark, CA. In 2012, she taught the class Understanding Natural Hazards, Quantifying Risk and Increasing Resilience in Highly Urbanized Regions at the Department of Geology at Stanford University. After Baltay’s Ph.D graduation, in 2012, she became a postdoctoral scholar working at the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. From 2013- 2015, she joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park as a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Scholar. Since 2016, she has been working as a research geophysicist at USGS, Menlo Park.

Known for research
Baltay’s works are often published in a range of peer-reviewed literature journals, including Science, Earthquake Spectra, and Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Her works are frequently cited. Below are some of her most cited articles:

-Shallow Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, Science, 2011

-Variability in Earthquake Stress Drop and Apparent Stress, Geophysical Research Letters, 2011

-Radiated Seismic Energy from Coda Measurements and No Scaling in Apparent Stress with Seismic Moment, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010

Awards and Honors
Baltay won Outstanding Student Presentation Award in 2011 from Advancing Earth and Space Science. In the same year, she was also the recipient of the 2011 Student Presentation Awards from the Seismological Society of America (SSA). In 2017, Baltay was a recipient of the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award from SSA, which honored the outstanding scientists/ researchers in the SSA. Baltay recieved the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2019.