Kimberly Blisniuk
kimberly.blisniuk@sjsu.edu
EDUCATION
2011 University of California, Davis, CA Ph.D. in Geology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
08/2025-present San Jose State University, Professor
08/2020-08/2025 San Jose State University, Associate Professor
05/2017-12/2023 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Visiting Scientiist
01/2015-07/2020 San Jose State University, Assistant Professor
Selected FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS
2024-2025 DOD, Department of Defense, Enhancing Research and Education in High Resolution Active Remote Sensing Technology and Landscape Modeling
2024-2026 NSF, GEO-EAR, Tectonics Program Director, Intergovernment Personnel Act assignment
2024-2025 SCEC, Statewide California Earthquake Center Grant, Quantifying fault slip partitioning between the Calaveras and Hayward faults, CA,
2023-2025 DOI, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) Grant, Development of faults through sand and the slip history of the San Gregorio Fault,
2022 National Academy of Sciences, Kavli Frontiers in Science Symposium, Kavli Science Fellow
2022-2023 SCEC, Southern California Earthquake Center, Development of faults through sand and the slip history of the San Gregorio Fault
2020-2021 Adobe Award, Teaching Adobe Illustrator and ArcGIS w/ Prof. Tina Korani
2020 Early Career Investigator Award, San Jose State University
2019-2025 NSF CAREER Award, Re-Evaluating the Evolution of the Southern San Andreas Fault along its restraining bend
Professional Development/Service
Service to Profession
2024-2025 National Science Foundation, EAR Program Director
2023 National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Science Symposium Planning Committee
2022 National Academy of Sciences, Kavli Science Fellow and invited presenter
2019 On-Ramps in Tectonics guide, co-author:
SERC and Tectonics community, Quick-start guides to help geoscience faculty implement effective strategies for actively engaging students in the classroom to improve learning
2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU), co-editor:
San Francisco 2019, Centennial Street Car to Subduction Field Trip Guide a mobile app base approach supported by Google and AGU
2018 Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum: Tempe, 2018, co-Chair
2018 NSF Future Directions in Tectonics Report Grand Challenge: co-author
Fieldtrip Leader/Organizer
2024 Seismologic Society of America Annual Meeting, Session Convener, Learning Across Geological, Geophysical & Model-Derived Observations to Constrain Earthquake Behavior
2024 Statewide California Earthquake Center, Session Convener, New Directions for the Statewide Center
2023 Statewide California Earthquake Center, Field trip leader, San Andreas Fault in northern California
2023 Friends of the Pleistocene, Field trip leader, Active tectonics of the Salton Trough and Coachella
2022 South Coast Geologic Society, Field trip leader, The San Andreas & San Jacinto Faults
2019 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Field trip leader: GOOGLE EARTH Streetcar2Subduction launch
To Students
Training: Mentored and trained high school and undergraduate students in classes, geologic field mapping, laboratory techniques, and ArcGIS skills. See list of undergraduate and graduate students in e-faculty.
2018- 2023 Undergraduate Advisor: Geology Department
2015- present San Jose State University: High School Interns in Active Tectonics
to University
2023-2024 SJSU Climate Change and Coastal Resilience Research Cluster Leader
2023-2024 UGA 2.0 Mentor, College of Science
2022 RSCA in 5, Community Engagement
2022 MS Thesis of the Year, Awarded to Jesse Waco, MS student
2021 SJSU Early Career Investigator Award Committee Member
2017-2022 College of Science Curriculum Committee
INVITED TALKS:
2025 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX
2024 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA
2023 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA
2023 Santa Clara Department of Education, Santa Clara, CA
2022 University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2022 Kavli Japan-America-Germany Symposium, Irvine, CA
2022 United States Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA
2021 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena California
2021 South Coast Geologic Society, Orange County, CA
2021 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2021 Northern California Earthquake Hazard Workshop, Mountain View, CA
2020 STEM-NET, Early CAREER Awardees, CSU Chancellor’s Office, CA
2020 San Jose State University, College of Science Symposium, San Jose, CA
2020 Geological and Environmental Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2020 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR