Andrea Donnellan is a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research) of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. Andrea studies earthquakes and crustal deformation by integrating satellite technology with high performance computer models. She is Principal Investigator of NASA's QuakeSim project, as well as supercomputing, earthquake modeling, and UAVSAR projects. QuakeSim won NASA's Software of the Year Award in 2012. Donnellan has been Deputy Manager of the JPL's Science Division, Pre-Project Scientist of a mission to study natural hazards, ice sheets, and ecosystems, and NASA's Applied Sciences Program Area Co-Lead for Natural Disasters. She has conducted field studies in California, in Antarctica, on the Altiplano of Bolivia, in Mongolia, and on Variegated Glacier in Alaska. She has been a geophysicist at JPL since 1993. She received a bachelor's degree from the Ohio State University in 1986, with a geology major and mathematics minor. She received her master's and Ph.D. in geophysics from Caltech's Seismological Laboratory in 1988 and 1991 respectively and held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Donnellan received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2003. She was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award, the MUSES of the California Science Center Woman of the Year Award, four NASA Space Act Awards, the Antarctic Service Medal, and was a finalist in the astronaut selection process three times.

• Ph.D., Geophysics, California Institute of Technology (1991)
• M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California (2003)
• M.S., Geophysics, California Institute of Technology (1988)
• B.S., Geology, Ohio State University, with honors and distinction in geology (1986)

• Natural hazard assessment using GPS and InSAR space technologies, and numerical modeling.
• Pattern analysis of geodetic and seismic time series to understand the underlying dynamics of complex earthquake fault systems.
• Numerical modeling to estimate the rheology of the crust, and fault characteristics and interactions using viscoelastic finite element and analytic elastic models.
• Collection and interpretation of GPS data with incorporation of InSAR data to study plate tectonics crustal deformation, and the earthquake cycle.

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1993-present)
  • Principal Research Scientist (2008-present)
  • NASA HQ Program Area Co-Lead for Natural Disasters (2009-2010)
  • QuakeSim Principal Investigator (2001-present)
  • Lead Scientist, InSAR, (2005-2007); DESDynI Science Lead (2007-2008)
  • Deputy Manager, Science Division (2002-2006)
  • Deputy Manager, Exploration Systems Autonomy Section (2000-2002)
  • Principal Researcher, Information and Computer Science, Advanced Technology R&D (2000-2000)
  • Supervisor, Data Understanding Systems Group (1999-2001)
  • Senior Researcher, Information and Computer Science, Advanced Technology R&D (1999-2000)
  • Research Scientist, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group (1997-1999)
  • Member of Technical Staff, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group (1993-1997)
• Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California (1999-present)
• Visiting Associate, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, (1995-1996)
• National Research Council Resident Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1991-1993)

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
• Women in Aerospace Award for Outstanding Achievement
• MUSES California Science Center Foundation, Woman of the Year
• Antarctic Service Medal
• Four NASA Space Act Awards for QuakeSim earthquake modeling software
• Women at Work Medal of Excellence
• JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence
• JPL team award for two QuakeSim earthquake modeling software programs
• Southern California Earthquake Center Outreach Award for Education
• National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship

1. Donnellan, A, J Parker, E De Jong, M Pierce, G Fox, D McLeod, J Rundle, L Grant Ludwig, A Distributed Approach to Computational Earthquake Science: Opportunities and Challenges, Computing In Science And Engineering, accepted.
2. Rundle, J.B., J.R. Holliday, M. Yoder, M.K. Sachs, A. Donnellan, D.L. Turcotte, K.F. Tiampo, W. Klein, L.H. Kellogg, Earthquake precursors: activation or quiescence, Geophys. J. Int., 187, 225-236, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05134.x, 2011.
3. Van Aalsburg, J, L.B Grant, P.B. Rundle, G. Yakovlev, J.B. Rundle, D.L. Turcotte, A. Donnellan, K.F. Tiampo, J. Fernandez-Torres, I. Dobson, Space- and time- dependent probabilities for earthquake fault systems from numerical simulations: Feasibility study and first results, PAGEOPH, 167, 967-977, DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0091-3, 2010.
4. Donnellan, A. and B. Luyendyk, GPS Evidence for a Coherent Plate and for Postglacial Rebound in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Global and Planetary Change 42, 305-311, 2004.
5. Granat, R., and A. Donnellan, Deterministic annealing hidden Markov models for geophysical data exploration, PAGEOPH, 2271-2284, 2002.
6. Donnellan, A. and G. A. Lyzenga, Fault afterslip and upper crustal relaxation following the Northridge earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 21,285-21,297, 1998.
7. Bawden, G., A. Donnellan, L. Kellogg, D. Dong, J. Rundle, Geodetic measurements of seven decades of hortizontal strain near the White Wolf fault, Kern County California: I. Observations, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 4957-4976, 1997.
8. Grant, L. B., and A. Donnellan, 1855 and 1991 surveys of the San Andreas fault: Implications for fault mechanics, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 84, 241-246, 1994.
9. Bills, B. G., S. L. de Silva, D. R. Currey, R. S. Emenger, K. D. Lillquist, A. Donnellan, and C. B. Worden, Hydro-isostatic deflection and tectonic tilting in the central Andes: Initial results of a GPS survey of Lake Minchin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 293-296, 1994.
10. Donnellan, A., B., H. Hager, and R. W. King, Discrepancy between geologic and geodetic deformation rates in the Ventura basin, Nature, 366, 333-336, 1993.