William Deering Professor Emeritus
and Institute for Policy Research Associate
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3130
email: seth@earth.northwestern.edu
For an overview of our group’s recent research, click here
Working collectively with students, alumni, and collaborators, some of whom are shown in the picture of the presentation of AGU’s Walter Bucher medal (click for event info), we sought to better understand how our planet works and how people can better live with it.
I’ve retired after 43 years at Northwestern, as half of a two-geophysicist family together with my wife Carol, retired from the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
 Carol and me at the Loma Prieta earthquake epicenter |
 Carol and me at the Mendenhall glacier, Alaska |
 Paddling with my daughter Rachel in the Des Plaines River canoe marathon |
In my free time, I was Outings Chair and trip leader for the Woods and Wetlands group of the Illinois Sierra Club, and a member of the Lake County Forest Preserve District’s River Trail Keepers. I do similar things now in retirement in Traverse City, Michigan.
