Location: G.R. Pearkes Recreation Centre: 3100 Tillicum Road, Victoria B.C.

Dr. John Cassidy is an earthquake seismologist and Senior Research Scientist with Natural Resources Canada in Sidney, BC. He leads the Geological Survey of Canada’s national “Assessing Earthquake Hazard and Risk Project” and is an adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences where he teaches courses and supervises graduate students. Dr. Cassidy specializes in earthquake hazard studies and earth structure studies, and during the past 30 years has published more than 250 scientific articles. John served as Co-Chair of the British Columbia Seismic Safety Council for 12 years, and in 2010 was invited to travel through the hardest-hit parts of Chile following the M8.8 earthquake and tsunami as a member of the Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineers Chile Earthquake Reconnaissance Team. John was elected to the Board of Directors for the Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering in 2021 and he works closely with the engineering community and emergency management organizations that utilize the results of earthquake science to help reduce the impacts of future earthquakes.

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