Ramon Arrowsmith, the associate director of operations for the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, is the recipient of the 2022 Faculty Service Achievement Award.

Ramon Arrowsmith has been at ASU since 1995 where he teaches field geology, structural geology, geomorphology and computers in earth and space exploration. 

He has more than 30 years experience studying the earthquake geology, paleoseismology, and geomorphology of fault zones and publishing about their history of activity and hazards. Arrowsmith is also co-founder and co-principal investigator of the OpenTopography effort, which aims to democratize access to high-resolution topographic data to serve users of varied expertise, application domains and computing resources.

Arrowsmith has led many short courses, workshops and visioning activities emphasizing high-resolution topographic data and tectonic geomorphology. He and his students conduct research on active faulting, earthquake geology, tectonic geomorphology and the geologic framework for human origins. 

He has conducted international field research with sites including China, India, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mexico, Bolivia, Switzerland and Indonesia. The EarthScope project was a large-scale geoscience investigation of the structural and evolution of the North American Continent. Arrowsmith was the chair of the EarthScope Steering Committee and Director of the EarthScope National Office which was located at ASU from 2011–2015.

He currently serves on the Southern California Earthquake Center Committee on Organizational Structure and Center Management and on its Planning Committee, as a member of the U.S. National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Geosciences, and as chair of the management board for the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America and of the Arizona Seismic Safety Advisory Council, among other positions.

Arrowsmith has served in leadership roles in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and its predecessor departments for much of his 27 years at ASU, including associate chairman, deputy director, and associate director for operations and for the graduate program