The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast

Acknowledgements

313 Acknowledgements My thanks go to the following scientists and others who gave generously of their time for sometimes extended interviews and manuscript review: Brian Atwater, Tanya Atwater, Alfred Aya, Antonio Baptista, Doug Barker, Loren Bommelyn, Deborah Carver, Gary Carver, Kevin Cupples, Mark Darienzo, William Dickinson, Doug Dougherty, Brooke Fiedorowicz, Chris Goldfinger, Kirsten Horning, Neal Maine, Alan Nelson, Steve Olson, Curt Peterson, George Plafker, George Priest, Kenji Satake, the late Paul See, Kunihiko Shimazaki, Al Smiles, Tom Stephens, Kazue Ueda, Fred Vine, Mark Winstanley, Rob Witter, David Yamaguchi, and Bob Yeats. My sincere apologies to the many others whose work contributed to the Cascadia puzzle, who deserve chapters and whole books of their own but who I didn’t feature here out of respect for the reader’s limits. A few of their papers central to the scope of this book are listed in “Selected References.” Many thanks to friends and family for early reading of first chapters, thoughtful review of the manuscript, a quiet place to write, and other essential support: Betsy Ayres, Kathleen Fitzgerald, Darcy Henderson and Mike Urness, Donna Henderson and Rich Sutliff, Randall and Jeanne Henderson, Barbara Lee and John Costello, David Markewitz, Jim and Suzanne Moody, and Donna Scurlock and Mike Weinstein. Particular thanks to Randall, who got the ball rolling and was a cheerleader throughout, and to Donna Henderson for her wordsmithing and encouragement. I am indebted to Yoko O’Brien for translation assistance in Oregon and to Satoko Musumi-Rokkaku for translation and generous hospitality in Yokohama. Deep thanks to Playa for a writing residency in fall 2011 that was essential to my completion of the book. Assignments from Oregon Quarterly (“What Happens When It Happens Here?” and “Big Wave, Small World”) helped support research for the book. I am grateful for editor Elizabeth Lyon’s advice and encouragement, and to Ursula Le Guin for fact checking and cheering an early chapter draft. My thanks to author Rob Guth and publicist Robin Carol for their efforts on the book’s behalf. 314 The Next Tsunami Gary Durheim and Les Neitzel reviewed portions of the text involving logging practices and chainsaw use and improved the manuscript with their wordsmithing and fact checking; thanks, guys. The staff of OSU Press is a pleasure to work with; thank you. The maps are the work of Erin Greb Cartography; thank you, Erin. I join surfers, geologists, and others in offering my appreciation, written and unwritten, to proprietors of The Stand in Seaside. The World Wide Web is an invaluable research tool, but there is still no substitute for personal research assistance of the kind I received from staff at the University of Oregon Science Library, the Eugene Public Library, the Indian Action Council, the Tokyo Foundation, and the Willapa Harbor Herald. I am grateful to Charlie Zennaché for many things, including love, unflagging encouragement, and literary patronage, and to our kids who have encouraged and—as they pursue their own passions—inspired me. My greatest thanks go to Tom Horning for his candor and the hours and days he spent talking with me and reviewing drafts. Tom, you have been a patient teacher and became a treasured friend; your willingness to share your story allowed me to undertake what became a very rewarding project. May it make a difference. Excerpt from John McPhee, Assembling California, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Quotation from biography of Frederick Storrs Baker at http://www. calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu. Excerpt from Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, published by Random House. Excerpt from Alfred Wegener, The Origin of Continents and Oceans, 4th ed., translation © Dover Publications; used with permission. Excerpt from Hermann Hesse in Wandering: Notes and Sketches, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. acknowledgements 315 Excerpt from James Bela, “The Dilemma of Great Subduction, or How I Learned to Love Politics and Stop Worrying About the Earthquake,” in Penrose Conference 2000: Great Cascadia Earthquake Tricentennial, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Special Paper 33 (2000); used with the author’s permission. Excerpt from Robert Michael Pyle, Wintergreen, © Robert Michael Pyle; used with permission. Excerpts from Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, published by Indiana University Press. Excerpt from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, published by Random House. ...