Dr. Aaron A. Velasco is a seismologist and educator at the University of Texas at El Paso that also serves part time as State Seismologist at the Railroad Commission of Texas.

• Governor's Technical Advisory Committee - Texas Governor's Office (09/01/2021-09/30/2021)
• Elected Fellow - California Academy of Sciences (06/18/2021)
• Governor's Technical Advisory Committee - Texas Governor's Office (09/01/2018-09/30/2018)
• Distinguished Speaker - Cal. State Univ. Dominguez Hills (03/01/2011-03/31/2011)
• Distinguished Lecturer - IRIS/SSA (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• Graduate Commencement Keynote Speaker - University of California, Santa Cruz (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Hispanos Triumfadores, Community Service Award - El Paso Chamber of Commerce (01/01/2006-12/31/2006)

• Ph D in Geophysics, University of California (1993)
• BS in Applied Geophysics, University of California (1988)

• Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C- CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquake Science 2023 AGU Fall Meeting (2023), Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus, Jeffrey Weidner, Sue Bilek, Divya Chandrsekhar, John Ebel, Tiegan Hobbs, Jose M. Hurtado, Steven Jaume, Eric Jones, Alan Kafka, Anne-Marie Nunez, Kristine Pankow, Zhigang Peng, Alexandros Savvaidis, Elizabeth Vanacore, Conevery Valencius, Mike Brudzinski.
• Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C- CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquake Science 2023 AGU Fall Meeting (2023), Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus, Jeffrey Weidner, Sue Bilek, Divya Chandrsekhar, John Ebel, Tiegan Hobbs, Jose M. Hurtado, Steven Jaume, Eric Jones, Alan Kafka, Anne-Marie Nunez, Kristine Pankow, Zhigang Peng, Alexandros Savvaidis, Elizabeth Vanacore, Conevery Valencius, Mike Brudzinski.
• Everything Is a Matter of Degree: The Main Idea Behind Fuzzy Logic Is Useful in Geosciences and in Authorship Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 31 - June 2, 2023 (2023), Christian Servin, Aaron A. Velasco, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Everything Is a Matter of Degree: The Main Idea Behind Fuzzy Logic Is Useful in Geosciences and in Authorship Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 31 - June 2, 2023 (2023), Christian Servin, Aaron A. Velasco, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• High-Impact Low-Probability Events Are Even More Important Than It Is Usually Assumed Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 31 - June 2, 2023 (2023), Aaron A. Velasco, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• High-Impact Low-Probability Events Are Even More Important Than It Is Usually Assumed Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 31 - June 2, 2023 (2023), Aaron A. Velasco, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Transforming Earthquake Science and Engineering Using Collective Impact: The Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES) 2023 AGU Fall Meeting (2023), Aaron A. Velasco, Jeffrey Weidner, Marianne Karplus, Sue Bilek, Conevery Valencius, Mike Brudzinski, Divya Chandrsekhar, John Ebel, Tiegan Hobbs, Jose M. Hurtado, Steven Jaume, Eric Jones, Alan Kafka, Yolanda Lin, Anne-Marie Nunez, Kristine Pankow, Zhigang Peng, Alexandros Savvaidis, Elizabeth Vanacore, Iris Tien, Monica Alvillar.
• Transforming Earthquake Science and Engineering Using Collective Impact: The Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES) 2023 AGU Fall Meeting (2023), Aaron A. Velasco, Jeffrey Weidner, Marianne Karplus, Sue Bilek, Conevery Valencius, Mike Brudzinski, Divya Chandrsekhar, John Ebel, Tiegan Hobbs, Jose M. Hurtado, Steven Jaume, Eric Jones, Alan Kafka, Yolanda Lin, Anne-Marie Nunez, Kristine Pankow, Zhigang Peng, Alexandros Savvaidis, Elizabeth Vanacore, Iris Tien, Monica Alvillar.
• Why 6-Valued Uncertainty Scale in Geosciences: Probability-Based Explanation Abstracts of the International Seminar on Computational Intelligence ISCI'2023, Tijuana, Mexico, August 30-31, 2023 (in press), Aaron A. Velasco, Julio Urenda, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Why Inverse Layers in Pavement? Why Zipper Fracking? Why Interleaving in Education? A General Explanation Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making IUKM 2023, Kanazawa, Japan, November 2-4, 2023 1 (2023), Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Aaron A. Velasco, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Why Inverse Layers in Pavement? Why Zipper Fracking? Why Interleaving in Education? A General Explanation Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making IUKM 2023, Kanazawa, Japan, November 2-4, 2023 1 (2023), Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Aaron A. Velasco, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• H/V analysis in Juchitan de Zaragosa, Oaxaca following the 2017 M8.2 Tehuantepec, Mexico earthquake Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 113 2 (2022), Solymar A. Cortez, Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus, Mohan Pant, Hector Gonzalez-Huizar, Xyoli Campos-Perez, Allen Husker, Oscar Dena.
• Insights from Dynamically Triggered and Induced Earthquakes in Oklahoma Seismological Research Letters (2022), Richard Alfaro-Diaz, David L. Guenaga, Aaron A. Velasco.
• A Numerical Experiment in Small-Angle Scattering: From X-Ray to Seismology AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2022 (2022), Solymar Alyala-Cortez, Aaron A. Velasco, Steven H. Harder.
• A Numerical Experiment in Small-Angle Scattering: From X-Ray to Seismology AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2022 (2022), Solymar Alyala-Cortez, Aaron A. Velasco, Steven H. Harder.
• Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquake Science 2022 AGU Fall Meeting (2022), Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus, Jeffrey Weidner, Susan Bilek, Divya Chandrsekhar, John Ebel, Tiegan E. Hobbs, Jose M. Hurtado, Steven C. Jaume, Eric Jones, Alan K. Kafka, Anne-Marie Nunez, Kristine L. Pankow, Zhigang Peng, Alexandros Savvaidis, Elizabeth A. Vanacore, Conevery B. Valencius, Michael Brudzinski.
• Why Daubechies wavelets are so successful Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 43 6 (2022), Solymar Ayala Cortez, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse Distance Weighting in Geosciences Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020 (2022), Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse Distance Weighting in Geosciences Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020 (2022), Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Limited Dynamic Triggering in the Utah Region Geophysical Journal International 229 3 (2022), David L. Guenaga, Richard Alfaro-Diaz, Aaron A. Velasco.
• News and Notes: SSA Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Toward a Changing, Inclusive Future in Earthquake Science Seismological Research Letters 92 5 (2021), Aaron A. Velasco.
• Seismically Identifying Nuclear Reactor Operations Using a Power Spectral Density Misfit Detector Bulletin Seismological Society of America 111 3 (2021), David L. Guenaga, Chengping Chai, Monica Maceira, Omar E. Marcillo, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Absence of Remotely Triggered Large Earthquakes: A Geometric Explanation Springer (2021), Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Why Gamma Distribution of Seismic Inter-Event Times: A Theoretical Explanation Springer (2021), Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• The Silencing of US Campuses following the COVID-19 Response: Evaluating Root Mean Square Seismic Amplitudes Using Power Spectral Density Data Seismological Research Letters 92 2A (2021), David L. Guenaga, Aaron A. Velasco, Omar E. Marcillo, Chengping Chai, Monica Maceira.
• Surface Wave Dispersion Tomography in Libya Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2-5 Nov. 2020, Sousse, Tunisia (2020), Abdusalam Agail, Aaron A. Velasco, Anibal Sosa, Azucena Zamora, Fathi Ghanem.
• Foundations of Modern Global Seismology, Version 2 Elsevier (2020), Charles J. Ammon, Aaron A. Velasco, Thorne Lay, Terry C. Wallace.
• The June 23, 2020 Magnitude 7.4 La Crucecita, Oaxaca Earthquake Temblor (2020), Aaron A. Velasco, Xyoli Perez Campos, Allen Husker, Marianne S. Karplus, Hector Gonzalez Huizar, Solymar Ayala Cortez.
• A rapid response network to record aftershocks of the 2015 M7.8 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal Seismological Research Letters (2020), Marianne Karplus, Mohan Pant, Soma N. Sapkota, John Nabelek, Aaron A. Velasco, Lok B. Adhikari, Abhijit Ghosh, Simon Klemperer, Vaclav Kuna, Manuel Mendoza, Jochen Braunmiller.
• Optimally Oriented Remote Triggering in the Coso Geothermal Region Journal of Geophysical Research 125 8 (2020), Richard Alfaro-Diaz, Aaron A. Velasco, Kristine Pankow, Deborah Kilb.
• Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse Distance Weighting in Geosciences Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020 (2020), Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Duplex in the Main Himalayan Thrust indicated by aftershocks of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake Nature Geoscience 12 (2019), Manuel Mendoza, Abhijit Ghosh, Marianne Karplus, John Nabelek, Soma N. Sapkota, Lok B. Adhikari, Simon Klemperer, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Bhutan Landscape Anomaly: Possible Effect on Himalayan Economy (In View of Optimal Description of Elevation Profiles) Thai Journal of Mathematics (2019), Nguyen N. Thach, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Duplex in the Main Himalayan Thrust illuminated by aftershocks of the 2015 M w 7.8 Gorkha earthquake Nature Geoscience (2019), MM Mendoza, A Ghosh, MS Karplus, SL Klemperer, SN Sapkota, LB Adhikari, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis Geombinatorics 29 2 (2019), Laxman Bokati, Ricardo Alfaro, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis Geombinatorics 29 2 (2019), Laxman Bokati, Ricardo Alfaro, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• How Earthquake Risk Depends on the Closeness to a Fault: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL'2019, Hannover, Germany, September 22-26, 2019 (2019), Aaron A. Velasco, Solymar Ayala, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• How Earthquake Risk Depends on the Closeness to a Fault: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis (2019), Aaron A. Velasco, Solymar A. Cortez, Olga M. Kosheleva, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• Bhutan Landscape Anomaly: Possible Effect on Himalayan Economy (In View of Optimal Description of Elevation Profiles) Thai Journal of Mathematics Special issue Structural Change Modeling and Optimization in Econometrics 2018 (2019), Thach Nguyen, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.

• Using collective impact to change how we conduct geoscience and broaden participation (2024), Volume Cape Cod, MA, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Using collective impact to change how we conduct geoscience and broaden participation (2023), Volume Tucson, AZ, Aaron A. Velasco.
• A Geologic Journey in Bhutan (2023), Volume Centennial Museum- Discovery Theater, David J. Young, Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus.
• A Geologic Journey in Bhutan (2023), Volume Centennial Museum- Discovery Theater, David J. Young, Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus.
• Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquake Science (2022), Volume Chicago, IL, Aaron A. Velasco, Marianne Karplus, Jeffrey Weidner, .
• Addressing Seismicity in Texas: The Technical Approach of the Railroad Commission of Texas (2022), Volume Austin, TX, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Addressing Seismicity in Texas: The Technical Approach of the Railroad Commission of Texas (2021), Volume webinar, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Addressing Seismicity in Texas: The Technical Approach of the Railroad Commission of Texas (2021), Volume webinar, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Addressing Seismicity in Texas: The Technical Approach of the Railroad Commission of Texas (2021), Volume webinar, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Panelist: Exploring Challenges for Diversifying Faculty (2020), Volume Online, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Panelist: How Community Shapes the Rhythm and Flow of Science in Society (2020), Volume Online, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Panelist: Tectonophysics, Seismology & Geodesy Sections Joint Early Career/Student Networking Event (2020), Volume Online, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Addressing Seismicity in Texas: The Technical Approach of the Railroad Commission of Texas (2020), Volume Online, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Induced Seismicity: Challenges and Strategies For Mitigation (2020), Volume Online, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Developing Strong International Partnerships for Geoscience Advances and Capacity Building (2020), Volume Onlie, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Shallow Active-Source Seismic Imaging of Old Faithful Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Jordan R. Caylor, Marianne Karplus, Juan Pablo Esparza, Jamie Farrell, Julien A. Chaput, Stephen A. Veitch, Galen M. Kaip, Fan-Chi Lin, Aaron A. Velasco, Robert Smith.
• Shallow Active-Source Seismic Imaging of Old Faithful Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park (2019), Volume San Francisco, CA, Jordan R. Caylor, Marianne Karplus, Juan Pablo Esparza, Jamie Farrell, Julien A. Chaput, Stephen A. Veitch, Galen M. Kaip, Fan-Chi Lin, Aaron A. Velasco, Robert Smith.
• Shallow 2-D Active-Source Seismic Imaging of Old Faithful Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park (2019), Volume Portland, OR, Jordan Caylor, Marianne Karplus, Juan Pablo Esparza, Jamie Farrell, Julien A. Chaput, Stephen A. Veitch, Galen M. Kaip, Fan-Chi Lin, Aaron A. Velasco, Robert Smith.
• Shallow 2-D Active-Source Seismic Imaging of Old Faithful Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park (2019), Volume Portland, OR, Jordan Caylor, Marianne Karplus, Juan Pablo Esparza, Jamie Farrell, Julien A. Chaput, Stephen A. Veitch, Galen M. Kaip, Fan-Chi Lin, Aaron A. Velasco, Robert Smith.
• Two International Aftershock Deployments in Nepal and Mexico (2019), Volume Online, Marianne Karplus, Aaron A. Velasco.
• Two International Aftershock Deployments in Nepal and Mexico (2019), Volume Online, Marianne Karplus, Aaron A. Velasco.

• TRACK 1: CENTER FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT IN EARTHQUAKE SCIENCE (C-CIES): BUILDING INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND COMMUNITY INTO EARTHQUAkE
• IMPLEMENTATION GRANT: COMMUNITY-DRIVEN INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE AND LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN THE GEOSCIENCES (CIELO-G)
• Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Interdisciplinary Geophysical and Civil Engineering Research and Education
• SUPPLEMENT: INSIGHTS INTO THE COMPLEXITIES OF A SEISMOGENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE: ANALYSIS OF A HIGH-QUALITY AFTERSHOCK DATA SET FROM THE 2017 TEHUANTEPEC
• INSIGHTS INTO THE COMPLEXITIES OF A SEISMOGENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE: ANALYSIS OF A HIGH-QUALITY AFTERSHOCK DATA SET FROM THE 2017 TEHUANTEPEC (M8.2) OFFSH
• Lithospheric Seismicity and Tectonics in the Himalaya