Walter D. Mooney | |
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 Walter Mooney, 2019 | |
| Born | November 17, 1951 Long Island, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Awards | George P. Woollard Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | United States Geological Survey University of Kiel Stanford University Pierre et Marie Curie University |
| Thesis | Seismic refraction studies of the Western Cordillera, Colombia and an East Pacific-Caribbean Ridge during the Jurassic and Cretaceous and the evolution of western Colombia (1979) |
Walter D. Mooney (born November 17, 1951) is a research seismologist and geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park, California (1978–present). He was Chief of the USGS Branch of Seismology from 1994 to 1997.