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)

• Local-Global Support for Earth Sciences: Economic Analysis Springer (2024), Uyen P. Nguyen, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Y. Kreinovich.
• 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.

• CIELO-G: Building Inclusive Geoscience Communities Through Collaborative Research and Community Engagement (2024), Volume Washington, D.C., Sandy Hardy, Aaron A. Velasco, Benjamin Brunner, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Marianne Karplus, Lin Ma.
• Insights into the Complexities of a Seismogenic Subduction Zone: ML-Driven Analysis of the M8.2 2017 Tehuantepec Earthquake Aftershock Sequence (2024), Volume Washington D.C., Marc Garcia, Aaron A. Velasco, Allen Husker, Chengping Chai, Marianne Karplus.
• Using collective impact to change how we conduct geoscience and broaden participation: The Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES) (2024), Volume Washington D.C., Aaron A. Velasco, Jeffrey Weidner, Marianne Karplus, Susan Bilek, Yolanda Lin, Monica Alvillar, C-CIES Team .
• 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.

• 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