Manuel Berberian is an Iran

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ian geologist

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and a Member of NY Academy of Sciences.
His origin is from Armenian ethnic-religious minority of Diarbakr in east of Turkey who forced to migrate to Iran after 1915-Armenian massacre.

Career

He founded the Tectonic and Seismotectonic Research Department of the Geological Survey of Iran in Tehran in 1971. He is the first geologist who applied plate tectonics in the Iranian geology, and he had a important role in development of systematic study of geology, tectonics, seismotectonics, archaeoseismicity, active faulting/folding, and seismicity of the Iranian Plateau.
He is working as Senior Earth and Environmental Scientist at Najarian Associates in New Jersey now.
He is currently a professor at Ocean County College

Publications

He is author of numerous research peer-reviewed reports published by top scientific/engineering journals. He prepared the first Earthquake Catalogue of Persia for UNESCO in 1992 during the United
Nations/International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
He is reviewer of the Geophysical Journal International, Geological Magazine, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Tectonophysicsm and Nature.

Selected papers

• Berberian, M., and Walker, R., 2010. The Rudbār Mw earthquake of 1990 June 20; seismotectoniocs, coseismic and geomorphic displacements, and historic earthquakes of the western ‘High-Alborz’ of Iran. Geophys. Jl. Int., 182(3), 1577-1602.

• Berberian, M., 2005- The 2003 Bam urban earthquake: A predictable seismotectonic pattern along the western margin of the rigid Lut Block, southeast Iran. Earthquake Spectra, 21(S1), S35-S99. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

• Berberian, M., and Yeats, R.S., 2001- Contribution of archaeological data to studies of earthquake history in the Iranian Plateau. Paul Hancock Memorial Issue, J. Struct. Geol.,23, 536-584.

Books

• Berberian, M., and Qorashi, M., 1987- Earthquake-fault hazard study of the Lake Urumiyeh region. Geol. Surv. Iran and Ministry of Roads and Transportation, Lake Urumiyeh Highway Project, 123p (in Persian).

External links

• http://www.ariansteelworld.com/AllFolders/Others/Mashahir.jsp?MashahirID=a943a767-497f-44ef-8f76-deef224dfb7c.Iranian scientists: M.Berberian.