3 Bits Key Info. New Seismologist. Texas Railroad Commission.

Aaron Velasco, the new Texas Railroad Commission seismologist:

  • He will share his time between the RRC and TexNet Seismic Monitoring program run by UT Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology
  • He will retain his post as a professor of geological sciences at the University of Texas in El Paso
  • B.A. from UCLA and his PhD from University of California at Santa Cruz