Taimi Mulder

Taimi completed her undergraduate degree in geophysics at UBC in Vancouver and her MSc in Seismology at the University of Victoria. She has worked as a seismic analyst for the Geological Survey of Canada for over 15 years and has worked on Ellesmere Island, in Ottawa and in Sidney BC. For a year and a half she worked at the Lamont Doherty Laboratory in New York State which involved some fieldwork in Kazakhstan. During the past year she has been working at Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UC San Diego on the US Array project - the largest real-time seismic network in the world. Any time there is a felt earthquake in BC or a large destructive earthquake elsewhere in the world Taimi is called on to give numerous media interviews - always ending with a “be prepared statement”.
Taimi is part of a team that gathers the earthquake data for western Canada and uses it to unravel the crustal structure of the region. She has led the introduction to Canada of the international standard software for analyzing earthquakes and is often called on to give seminars about the system to seismologists in other countries. The opportunity to travel, the opportunity to contribute to keeping Canadians safe and a dynamic, stimulating research environment make her job rewarding.