Craig Taylor, Research Professor
Professor Craig Taylor
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Contact information
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Avenue, KAP 210
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531
Tel: (213) 740-0603 main office
Fax: (213) 744-1426
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Biographical Information
Ph.D. — Philosophy — University of Illinois at Urbana
A.M. — Philosophy — University of Illinois at Urbana
B.S. — Philosophy (Mathematics Minor) — University of Utah
Dr. Taylor has been the Managing Partner at Baseline Management Company since 2005.
Recent Honors
2006 TCLEE Lifetime Contribution Award, Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
Co-recipient of Applied technology council Award for Excellence for ATC
Professional Affiliations
Chair, Council on Disaster Risk Management, 2005-present
Associate Editor,
Natural Hazards Review, 2004-present
Moderator and co-chair, Session on Performance-Based Engineering in Challenging Environments, ASCE Earth and Space 2006 conference on Earthquake Engineering (2006)
Reviewer, National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (2006)
Reviewer on many journals such as Earthquake spectra,
ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,
Natural Hazards Review, and
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
Member, ASTM
Member, ASTM-36-3 on seismic fragility modeling for water conveyance systems
Member, ASCE
Member, ASCE Task committee on Natural Disaster Reduction
Member, ASCE Committee on Earthquake Actuated Automatic Gas Shutoff Systems Standards Advisory
Member, Seismological Society of America
Member, American Philosophical Association
Member, Society for Risk Analysis
Member, Insurance Subcommittee of the Committee on Natural Disasters in the US
Recent Publications—Primary Author
Craig Taylor, Stuart D. Werner, and William Graff, 2006, "Toward Systems Performance Standards for Infrastructure Systems Impacted by Natural Hazards," American society of civil Engineers Conference on Earth and Space 2006, March.
Craig Taylor, Erik VanMarcke, 2006, "A Hedgehog and Fox Strategy Toward Reducing Risks in Infrastructure Systems: Two Monographs," Natural Hazards Review, pp 131-136, August, Volume 7, Number 3.
Recent Publications—Co–Author
With Stuart D. Werner, Sungbin Cho, Jean-Paul Lavoie, and Charles K. Huyck, 2006, "Seismic Analysis of a Roadway System in the Los Angeles, California Area, to be published in the proceedings of the National Seismic Conference on Bridges and Highways, September 18-20.
With Philip T. Ganderton, Linda Bourque, Nicole Dash, Ron Eguchi, David Godschalk, Claret Heider, Elliott Mittler, Keith Porter, Adam Rose, and L. Thomas Tobin, 2006, "Mitigation Generates Savings of Four to One and Enhances community Resilience,"
Natural Hazards Observer, March 1-3.
With Adam Rose, Keith Porter, Nicole Dash, Jawhar Bouabid, Charles Huyck, John C. Whitehead, Douglass Shaw, Ronald T. Eguchi, Thomas R. McLane, L. Thomas Tobin, Philip T. Genderton, David Godschalk, Anne S. Kiremidjian, Kathleen Tierney, and Carol Taylor West, "Benefit-Cost Analysis of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants, " paper submitted to
Natural Hazards Review, 2006.
Recent Reports / Monographs—Primary Author
Infrastructure Risk Management Process: Natural, Accidental, and Deliverate hazaards, editor and contributor (with E. VanMarcke), 2005, Reston, VA: ASCE, Council on Disaster Risk Management, Monograph No. 1, May.
Exogenous Uncertainties in Earthquake Risk Modeling for Infrastructure Systems: A Demonstration Evaluation in Northern Caliofrnia (with Stuart Werner, Walter Silva, Mark Aschheim, and Larry Scheibel), for the United States Geological Survey, Award No. 03H!GR0022, August, 2004).
Reports / Monographs—Primary Author
Infrastructure Risk Management Processes: Natural, Accidental, and Deliberate Hazards, editor and contributor (with E. VanMarcke), 2005, Reston VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, Council on Disaster Risk Management, Monograph No. 1, May.
Exogenous Uncertainties in Earthquake Risk Modeling for Infrastructure Systems: A Demonstration Evaluation in Northern California (with Stuart Werner, Walter Silva, Mark Aschheim, and Larry Scheibel), for the United States Geological Survey, Award No. 03H!GR0022, August, 2004.
Post-Sampling Variance Reduction for Seismic Risk Analysis of Spatially Distributed Lifeline Networks (with David M. Perkins and Stuart D. Werner), for the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, New York, under FHWA Contract DTFH61-98-C-00094, July 2004.
Reports / Monographs—Principal Co-Author
Redars 2 Methodology and Software for Seismic Risk Analysis of Highway Systems, (Stuart D. Werner, Craig E. Taylor, Sungbin Cho, Jean-Paul Lavoie, Charles Huyck, Chip Eitzel, Howard Chung, and Ronald T. Eguchi, 2006, Oakland, CA: Seismic Systems & Engineering Consultants for the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research under FHWA Contract DTFH61-98-C-00094.
Independent Study to Assess Future Savings from Mitigation Activities, with Applied Technology Council (ATC61), for the Multihazard Mitigation Council, National Institute of Building Sciences, under FEMA Contract No. EMW-1998-CO-0217, Task Order O 10.
Selected Recent Presentations
Toward System Performance Standards for Infrastructure Systems Impacted by Natural Hazards, American Society of Civil Engineers Conference on Earth and Space 2006, March.
Exploring Uncertainties in Seismic Risk Evaluations of Lifelines Systems, December, 2003 workshop on U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research for Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, Los Angeles, CA.
The Gradual Evolution Toward System Standards: ALA Guidelines on Natural Hazards Performance Objectives for Water Systems, January 2003, Joint Workshop on US-Japan Cooperative Research in Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation.
