Don trained many Ph.D.students over the〜5 decades of his career,at least 45 were advised or co-advised according to a Caltech account.A large number were international students including a high percentage of Chinese s...
I arrived at Caltech as a graduate student in the summer of 1979.With a BSc degree in physics,I knew little to nothing about seismology or geophysics.The Seismo Lab encouraged new students to immediately start some re...
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I grew up in one of the most aseismic regions of the planet but decided as a child that I wanted to be a seismologist.Ignoring all the naysayers who claimed that no one really did that for a living and who told me I s...
Donald V.Helmberger was an unparalleled observational seismologist,and theoretician.His pioneering work in seismic waveform modeling,and the numerical methods he developed to simulate seismograms to study the structur...
I arrived at Caltech in June 1986,with interests in both mineral physics and seismology.I was excited to either study mineral physics with Professor Tom Ahrens,or investigate great earthquakes with Hiroo Kanamori.Upon...
Don is certainly missed,by me,and by so many others.I particularly miss the constancy I derived by thinking of him down in Pasadena on the third floor of South Mudd,under the tree in his office,looking at waveforms.I ...