• Neotectonics and Paleoseismology (a picture from the Hector Mine earthquake site)
• Structural evolution of active collision zones
• Marine geophysics

• University of California , Santa Cruz
  Ph. D. in Earth Sciences, August 1988
  Committee Chair: J. Casey Moore
  
• University of California , Davis
  B. S. in Geology, December 1981
  
  

Complete List of Experience [pdf]

• 2002-present: Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Department of Earth Sciences
  Los Angeles , CA 90089
  
• 2001-2002 School Year: Recipient of “Excellence in General Education Teaching” Award,
  USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
  
• 2003-2005: Member of the Coordinating Board of the Southern California Integrated Geodetic Network (SCIGN)
  
• 1996-2002: Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Department of Earth Sciences
  Los Angeles , CA 90089
  
• 1996-2000: Member of Board of Directors of the Southern California Earthquake Center, USC
  Los Angeles , CA 90089
  

Complete List of Publications [pdf]

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOKS (abstracts excluded) ( ** denotes student co-author under my primary supervision) 1

( * denotes student co-author under my secondary supervision):

Dolan, J. F. , Bowman, D. D. , and Sammis, C. G., in review, Long-range and long-term fault interactions in southern California : Geology .

Hartleb, R D. ** , Dolan, J. F. , Kozaci, O.** , Akyuz, S., and Seitz, G., in review, A 2,500-year-long paleoseismologic record of large, infrequent earthquakes on the North Anatolian fault at Cukurcimen, Turkey: Bulletin of Geological Society of America .

Grindlay, N. R., Mann, P., Dolan, J. F ., and van-Gestel, J.-P., 2005, Neotetconics and subsidence of the northern Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands margin in response to oblique subduction of high-standing ridges: in Mann, P., ed., Active Tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas, Geological Society of America Special Paper 385, p. 31-60.

Dolan, J. F ., and Bowman, D. D. , 2004, Tectonic and seismologic setting of the September 22, 2003 Puerto Plata , Dominican Republic , earthquake: Implications for earthquake hazard in northern Hispaniola : Seismological Research Letters , v. 75, p. 587-597.

Dolan, J. F. , Christofferson, S. ** , and Shaw, J. H.,2003, Recognition of paleoearthquakes on the Puente Hills blind thrust fault, Los Angeles , California : Science , v. 300, p. 115-118.

Hartleb, R D. ** , Dolan, J. F. , Akyüz, S., and Yerli, B., 2003, A 2,000 year record of earthquake occurrence along the central North Anatolian fault, from trenches at Alayurt, Turkey: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , v. 93, p. 1935-1954.