Associate Professor
Director of Weston Observatory
Devlin Hall 312
Telephone: 617-552-3650
Email: alan.kafka.1@bc.edu
Seismology
Earthquake Hazards
Science Education
Science and Public Policy
Professor Kafka is the director of Weston Observatory, Boston College’s geophysical research and science education center of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The Observatory, located in Weston, Mass., conducts research on earthquakes and has been recording earthquakes since the 1930s.