Donald V.Helmberger the Mentor

• 作者: Timothy I.Melbourne
• 来源期刊: 地震学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: Special Memorial Issue for Donald Vincent Helmberger
• 页码范围: 44-50
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Don is certainly missed,by me,and by so many others.I particularly miss the constancy I derived by thinking of him down in Pasadena on the third floor of South Mudd,under the tree in his office,looking at waveforms.I have myriad memories with him,formed not just as a student at the Caltech Seismo Lab but over the two decades following.It is therefore a bit difficult to choose which I might use to paint a picture of the person I knew,the person who did more to shape me scientifically than anybody except my father,and the person for whom I felt such affection.Obviously,pure science,waveform modeling done purely for curiosity to tease out Earth's secrets,should take center stage,particularly for this venue,but Don was a rich tapestry of humanity and science,so I thought I might tell a few offbeat stories,interwoven with the work I did with him,to offer up my sense of him.