At Pompeii, Jones explores how a volcanic eruption in the first century AD challenged prevailing views of religion. We’re trying to get the science used for decision-making without scientists taking over the decision-making. “My job is to determine what’s needed,” she said. Lucy Jones: The USGS and the city have agreed that I will bring the USGS’s science on understanding natural hazards and the disasters they cause to the city, so that policy makers can understand the implications of their decisions. Dr. Lucy Jones, America's foremost earthquake expert, talks about her new book "The Big Ones" (which includes hurricanes, volcanoes and other disasters, too). So says Lucy Jones in her new book, ‘The Big Ones’, which gives a scientist’s view of some of the world’s most significant natural catastrophes, from the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79 to the Tohoku earthquake in Japan as recently as 2011. She examines the California floods of 1862 and the limits of human memory. In The Big Ones, leading seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones offers a bracing look at some of the world's greatest natural disasters, whose reverberations we continue to feel today. Dr. Lucy Jones is certain "the Big One" - the devastating, long-predicted, long overdue earthquake in California along one of the United States' most dangerous fault lines - is on its way. Big natural events happen all the time, but they only become disasters when they affect humans. Lucy Jones is the author of The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) (Doubleday, 2018). L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has tasked Lucy Jones, a Caltech seismologist, with preparing the city for the Big One. Lucy Jones Advises LA on Resiliency and ‘The Big One’ November 7, 2014 In order to improve Los Angeles' earthquake preparedness, Mayor Eric Garcetti has brought in the US Geological Survey's world-renowned Dr. Lucy Jones as his Science Advisor for Seismic Safety, to create a resiliency report.
After retiring from the USGS in 2016, Jones founded the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society and wrote a book published in 2018 titled The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them). She’s also a seismologist at Caltech and the Founder and Chief Scientist of the Dr Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, based in Pasadena, California.