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Professional activities include American Geophysical Union: member；Seismology Society of America: member；Regional Earthquake Likelihood Modelling Group (RELM): leader/contributor；Southern California Earthquake Centre: contributor；New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering: member；Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predicibility: advisor/contributor；New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering: Member
Education
1992: BSc, Geophysics; 1994: MSc, Geophysics; 2003: PhD, Seismology
Work Experience
Matt is a seismologist who focuses on earthquake forecasting and seismic hazard modelling. He has particular interests in better understanding and quantification of uncertainties, developing testable models (and testing them), and also developing methods for propagating uncertainties through to end uses of forecasting and hazard models. He has actively worked in seismology in the USA, Japan, Europe and Australia. He currently leads the National Seismic Hazard Model and also the earthquake forecasting teams at GNS. He is a GeoNet earthquake duty seismologist and is an Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
Achievement
Major publications include Gerstenberger, M.C.; Christophersen, A. 2016 A Bayesian network and structured expert elicitation for Otway Stage 2C : detection of injected CO2 in a saline aquifer. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 51: 317-329; doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.05.011；Gerstenberger, M.C.; Fry, B. 2016 Preface to the focus section on the joint JapanTaiwanNew Zealand national seismic hazard model collaboration. Seismological Research Letters, 87(6): 1236-1239; doi: 10.1785/0220160166；Gerstenberger, M.C.; Rhoades, D.A.; McVerry, G.H. 2016 A hybrid time-dependent probabilistic seismic-hazard model for Canterbury, New Zealand. Seismological Research Letters, 87(6): 131--1318; doi: 10.1785/0220160084；Rhoades, D.A.; Liukis, M.; Christophersen, A.;Gerstenberger, M.C. 2016 Retrospective tests of hybrid operational earthquake forecasting models for Canterbury. Geophysical Journal International, 204(1): 440-456; doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv447
