Walter D. Mooney

Walter D. Mooney
Walter Mooney, 2019
Born (1951-11-17) November 17, 1951 (age 72)
Alma materCornell University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
AwardsGeorge P. Woollard Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsUnited 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.