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Mark Zoback | |
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Born |
Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Stanford University University of Arizona |
Awards |
Walter H. Bucher Medal (2008) Louis Néel Medal (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geophysics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Mark D. Zoback is an American geophysicist and Emeritus Faculty at Stanford University. [1] He is also a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering, [2] and he directs or co-directs the Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity (SCITS), the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative (NGI), and the Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics program (SRB)[ citation needed]. Zoback is the author of the textbook Reservoir Geomechanics. [3] Zoback is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications and he holds seven patents. [4] He is married to the American geophysicist Mary Lou Zoback.