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Dr Peter Ward Earned a BA from Dartmouth College in Geology in 1965 and a PhD from Columbia University in Geophysics in 1970. My thesis focused on earthquakes, volcanoes, and tectonics in Iceland. I worked 27 years with the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, as a geophysicist, as a Program Manager, and as Chief of the Branch of Seismology, which, under my leadership, became the Branch of Earthquake Mechanics and Prediction. I played a major role in developing and initially leading the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.I spent 8 summers studying earthquakes and volcanoes in Katmai National Park, Alaska, and installed instruments on volcanoes in Iceland, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington State, California, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.At the age of 31, I was appointed to lead a group of 40 PhD scientists and 100 other workers in a major effort to monitor earthquakes, with the goal of predicting their time of occurrence. This led to life-long interests in how to manage creat