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==Life and career==
 
Dr. Zoback is a geophysicist who graduated with her PhD in 1978 from Stanford University. She worked for most of her career as a senior research scientist at the [https://secweb.wr.usgs.gov/USGS-Menlo-Park/ U.S Geological Survey located in Menlo Park, California]. SheZoback hasserved led an incredibly successful life with a long list of accomplishments and publications. She was a member ofon the [https://nwtrb.gov U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board], shefrom was2012 allottedto this2018.<ref>{{Cite positionweb by|title=Spring President2018 BarackBoard ObamaMeeting on- SeptemberMarch 2527, 20122018 |url=https://www.nwtrb.gov/meetings/past-meetings/spring-2018-board-meeting---march-28-2018 |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=www.nwtrb.gov}}</ref>
 
Throughout her career, herZoback's research interestsfocused includedon active tectonics, the relationship between active faulting, quantifying earthquake likelihood, deformation and state of stress in the earth’s crust, and the intertwined relationship between physics, chemistry and geology. The application of this specific work won her the Public Service award and the Day Medal from the [https://www.geosociety.org Geological Society of America]. She studied the [https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/safaultgip.html San Andreas fault system] and served as an early leader of world stress map project of the [https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/safaultgip.html international Lithosphere program].
 
Zoback attended [[Stanford University]], receiving her B.S. in 1974, M.S. in 1975, and Ph.D. in 1978.<ref name="AWSS">{{cite book|last=Wayne|first=Tiffany K.|title=American Women of Science Since 1900: Essays A-H. Vol.1|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|pages=997–998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gPGZJ_YuMwgC&pg=PA998|isbn=9781598841589}}</ref> She did a Post-Doctoral program with the [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] from 1978–1979 with the [[U.S. Geological Survey]]'s Heat Flow Studies group. She was a research scientist in the [[earthquake]] studies office at the [[USGS]] from 1979 until 2003. From 2006–2011 Zoback was the vice president, earthquake risk applications with Risk Management Solutions in [[Newark, California]].<ref name="NWTRB">{{cite web |title=Zobeck Resume |url=http://www.nwtrb.gov/board/zoback.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328011027/http://www.nwtrb.gov/board/zoback.html |archive-date=2014-03-28 |access-date=2014-03-27 |publisher=U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board}}</ref><ref name="AWSS" />