CV
EDUCATION
2011 University of California, Davis, CA Ph.D. in Geology
2004 Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA MS in Geology
2000 University of California, Riverside, CA BS in Geology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017-present Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Visiting Scientist
2015-present San Jose State University, Assistant Professor
2014- 2016 Stanford University, Visiting Scholar
2012 - 2014 National Science Foundation Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Geochronology Center
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH
Professional Development/Service
Service to Profession
Organizational Member/Author/Editor
2020 National Academy of Sciences: Kavli Symposium Participant
2019 On-Ramps in Tectonics guide, co-author: SERC and Tectonics commumity, Quick-start guides to help geoscience faculty implement effective strategies for actively engaging students in the classroom to improve learning
2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU), co-editor: San Francisco 2019, Centennial Street Car to Subduction Field Trip Guide a mobile app base approach supported by Google and AGU,
2018 Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum: Tempe, 2018, co-Chair with Ramon Arrowsmith supported by National Science Foundation, Geological Society of America, and Southern California Earthquake Center
2018 NSF Future Directions in Tectonics Report Grand Challenge: co-author
2017 NSF Future Directions in Tectonics White Paper Grand Challenge, co-author
2017 GSA Seattle, Advocate for T217 Challenges in Tectonics 5: Synergies between Meeting Societal Needs and Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Tectonics and Structural Geology, chair
Field trip Leader/Organizer
2019 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Field trip leader: GOOGLE EARTH Streetcar2Subduction: Active Tectonics of the No. California faults
2018 American Engineering Geology Field Course, Field trip leader: San Andreas and Range Front Reverse Faults, San Francisco Peninsula.
2018 Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, Field trip leader: The Southern San Andreas Fault
2016 Southern California Earthquake Science Center, Field trip leader: Estimating Geologic Slip Rates on the southern San Andreas Fault in the Central Indio Hills, California: U-series and 10Be dating
Service To Students
Training: Mentored and trained high school and undergraduate students in classes, geologic field mapping, laboratory techniques, and ArcGIS computer skills.
2018- present Undergraduate Advisor: Geology Department
2015- present San Jose State University: High School Interns in Active Tectonics
INVITED TALKS:
2022 United States Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA
2021 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena California
2021 South Coast Geologic Society, Orange County, CA
2021 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2021 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2021 Northern California Earthquake Hazard Workshop, Mountain View, CA
2020 STEM-NET, Early CAREER Awardees, CSU Chancellor’s Office, CA
2020 San Jose State University, College of Science Symposium, San Jose, CA
2020 Geological and Environmental Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2020 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2019 SAGE/GAGE Workshop, Portland, OR.
2019 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2019 ISTerre, Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
2018 Geology Department, University of California, Davis, CA.
2018 Geology Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
2018 Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, Arizona State University, AZ.
2017 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
2017 Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
2017 Northern California Geological Society, Orinda, CA.
2016 Earthquake Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.
2016 Department of Earth and Climate Science, San Francisco State University, San Fran., CA.
2016 Department of Geology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.
2015 Earth, Planetary and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
FUNDED GRANTS/AWARDS (2018-PRESENT)
2022 National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers in Science Symposium, Kavli Science Fellow
2022-2023 SJSU Research and Innovation Student RSCA Fellowship, student Simone Yaeger, $3500
2021-2022 SJSU e-campus Technology Equipment program, w/ Prof. Tina Korani, $7000.
2020-2021 Adobe Award, Teaching Adobe Illustrator and ArcGIS w/ Prof. Tina Korani, $5000
2020-2022 EDMap, Mapping the Rodgers Creek Fault, before and after the Kincade fire, to determine long term geologic fault slip rates and the distribution of slip across the northern San Andreas Fault system, CA, $27,500.
2020 National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers in Science Symposium, Travel Grant to Symposium
2020 Early Career Investigator Award, San Jose State University, $5000
2019 Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Grant, Travel Grant to annual meeting, $1500.
2019-2024 NSF CAREER AWARD, Re-Evaluating the Evolution of the Southern San Andreas Fault along its restraining bend from Holocene to mid-Quaternary timescales via 36Cl/10Be burial and cosmogenic dating, $631,780 total.
2019-2020 DOI, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) Grant, Collaborative Research: Measuring Strain Transfer with GPS and Fault Slip Rates from the San Andreas Fault to the Eastern California Shear Zone Across the Eastern Transverse Ranges, $55,921 total, $23,948 SJSU.
2019-2023 Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity (RSCA), SJSU 0.2 release time each semester
2019-2020 DOI, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) Grant, Identifying Faults and Earthquakes, and their Potential Association with Mass Wasting Along the Seal Cove Strand of the San Gregorio Fault in San Mateo County, $23,911 total, $21,488 SJSU.
2019-2020 DOI, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) Grant, Determining the Distribution of Slip Across the Northern San Andreas Fault System: Through Long-term Fault Slip Rates on the Rodgers Creek fault, Northern California, $82,286 total, $70,759 SJSU.
2018-2019 Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, SJSU 0.2 release time Fall semester
2018-2019 DOI, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) Grant, Determining the Distribution of Slip Across the Northern San Andreas Fault System: Through Long-term Fault Slip Rates on the Rodgers Creek and Calaveras Faults, Northern California, $69,623.
2017-2018 National Science Foundation (NSF), Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum, $34,599 funded to Arizona State University, Blisniuk co-PI.
2018-2019 SJSU Undergraduate Research Grants, $1000, for undergraduate Hollianne McClure.
2018-2019 SJSU Undergraduate Research Grants, $1000, for undergraduate Benjamin White.
2017-2018 Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Grant, Understanding Strain Accumulation and Transfer between the SSAF, San Gorgonio Pass and the ECSZ, Southern California Earthquake Center/USC, $50,000 total/SJSU.