Gareth Funning
Member, Proposal Review Committee at University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolGareth Funning is a geophysicist and academic leader with 12 years of professional experience studying crustal deformation, earthquakes, and active tectonics using InSAR, GNSS, and seismic methods. Based in Riverside after relocating from Britain specifically to work near California’s major active faults, he combines hands-on remote sensing and numerical modelling with classroom teaching from undergraduate introductions to graduate space geodesy and scientific computing. He serves in leadership roles including Chair of the EarthScope Board, member of SCEC’s Proposal Review Committee, and founding executive editor of the open-access journal Seismica, reflecting a commitment to community science and open scholarship. Gareth’s research blends observational geodesy with earthquake cycle theory to illuminate fault processes and anthropogenic deformation, and he routinely translates complex datasets into clear visualizations for research and education. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford and earlier degrees from Durham and Cambridge, bringing deep UK training to US-focused tectonic problems. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained involvement in governance and editorial work, shaping how geoscience research is funded, reviewed, and communicated.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
D.Phil. Earth Sciences, D.Phil. Earth Sciences at University of OxfordMSci Geological Sciences, MSci Geological Sciences at University of CambridgeMSc Geophysics, MSc Geophysics at Durham University
Github Skills (5)
insar9
atmospheric-modelling6
python5
persistent4
scientific-computing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geniusinaction/prepareInSARdata
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
geniusinaction/okapy
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Okada in Python. Not the charismatic megafauna.
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythonmegafauna
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